Electric Fry Pan Pork Chops or Chicken Breasts Recipe created by Ruth Paget
When I was growing up in Royal Oak, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit) in the 1970s, my mom taught me how to cook with an electric fry pan that you could set on a kitchen counter, plug in, and use like a pan on a stove burner to save energy and make clean up easier.
Our electric fry pan had a cover and could hold four pork chops or chicken breasts easily. The recipe below began as one in the electric fry pan operation manual that has morphed over the decades. It is a good fall market day recipe
I made these pork chops often when I was in college at the University of Chicago. (Chicago is world famous for pork belly trading and did sell pork chops very reasonably in stores, especially in fall.) I used dry seasoning during Chicago winters.
Electric Fry Pan Pork Chops (or Chicken Breasts) with Vegetables (one-pot dish)
Serves 4
Ingredients:
-4 medium size pork chops
-2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
-1 cup rice
-2 cups chicken broth
-1 sliced onion
-1 sliced green pepper
-2 slices tomatoes with seeds
-1/2 tablespoon garlic salt
-1/2 tablespoon onion salt
-1/2 tablespoon paprika
-1/2 tablespoon celery salt (optional)
-1 tablespoon dry parsley
-salt and pepper, to taste
Steps:
1-Brown pork chops for 15 to 20 minutes in electric fry pan in oil.
2-Remove pork chops from fry pan. Add rice and chicken stock to fry pan. Place pork chops back in fry pan.
3-Place onions on top of pork chops. Place green pepper slices on top of onions. Place tomato slices on top of peppers and onions.
4-Sprinkle garlic salt, onion salt, paprika, and celery salt (if using) over the vegetables. Sprinkle parsley on top of vegetables.
5-Cover the fry pan and cook on high (400 degrees Fahrenheit) for 35 to 45 minutes.
6-All liquid should be absorbed by the rice with the pork chops left moist from braising. Salt and pepper, to taste.
Enjoy your one-pot pork chop dinner!
By Ruth Paget
-author Eating Soup with Chopsticks, Marrying France, and Europe’s Lessons written during overseas duty in Germany + 5 other Kindle books
-developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Games + 8 Classical Western Civilization War Gamez
-developer of food and beverage knowledge games
-creator of online exhibits about San Miguel Arcangel Mission, French baguette baking, and the Carmel Valley History Center
-creator of French travel and culture games
-writer of 2000+ Central Coast California lifestyle blogs
-family genealogist
-developer of 9 music theory games
