Sauteed Pork Chops with Sweet-and-Sour Red Cabbage

Ingredients for Sauteed Pork Chops with Sweet-and-Sour Red Cabbage

• 6 bacon slices, chopped

• 1 to 3 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 1 cipolla media, tritata

• 1 small red cabbage (800g), halved lengthwise, cored, and sliced 1/4 inch thick

• 60ml red-wine vinegar

• 180ml water

• 2 cucchiai di zucchero

• 1/2 cucchiaini di semi di cumino

• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt

• 3/4 teaspoons black pepper

• 4 (1-inch-thick) bone-in rib pork chops (2 1/2 to 1.4kg total)

• an instant-read thermometer

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 232°C.

Cook bacon in a 4- to 5-quart wide heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, and transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Measure fat and, if less than 2 tablespoons , add enough vegetable oil to bring total to 2 tablespoons . Heat fat over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then cook onion, stirring occasionally, until it begins to turn golden, about 2 minutes. Add cabbage and turn with tongs until coated with fat. Stir in red-wine vinegar, water, sugar, caraway seeds, 3/4 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoons pepper and braise cabbage over moderately low heat, covered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 25 to 35 minutes.

Meanwhile, pat 2 pork chops dry and sprinkle both sides with 1/4 teaspoons salt and 1/4 teaspoons pepper (total). Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then brown seasoned chops, turning over once, 5 minutes total, and transfer to a shallow baking pan (1 inch deep). Season remaining 2 chops and brown in oil remaining in skillet in same manner, transferring to baking pan. Roast chops in oven until thermometer inserted horizontally 2 inches into centre of a chop (do not touch bone) registers 63°C, 5 to 8 minutes.

Meanwhile, stir half of bacon into cabbage, then finely chop remaining bacon for sprinkling.

Let chops stand in pan, loosely covered with foil, 5 minutes. Serve chops over cabbage, with any pan juices spooned over and sprinkled with bacon.

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