Chop with mushrooms is always a real celebration of taste. But if you want to learn how to cook this delicacy, you have to try. Do not think that it is enough to knock a piece of pork with a hammer, fry it with mushrooms and add spices to get a good result.
Yes, you have to tinker with this dish. But what a result! It is unlikely that even one man will be able to perceive such a treat without a mass of the most positive emotions. Of course, if he does not adhere to vegetarian views. But for anyone who loves meat, chops with mushrooms will be to your taste.
Our small selection will help you choose the recipe for delicious chops for a family holiday or a romantic date.
General principles of cooking
Before you prepare delicious chops, it is worth remembering some secrets that will help make the dish beautiful and appetizing.
First, professional chefs recommend slicing pork across the fibers. This slicing method is the most common for chops.
Secondly, do not use a hammer with too rough a surface to beat off. The goal of the process is to make the meat soft, not to destroy it.
So that the juice does not scatter throughout the kitchen, before beating, the meat can be wrapped with cling film.
Mushrooms for pork are suitable for almost any: ordinary mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, fragrant forest. The aroma of mushrooms as if reveals the potential of pork, makes the taste of meat even more complete and interesting.
Fragrant batter
Chops with mushrooms, the recipe of which we will discuss in this section, is not so difficult to do. If you still do not have experience in cooking this dish, this option can be considered the best for the start.
Cut the meat into oval-shaped pieces, the thickness of which is 0.7-0.8 mm. Lightly beat off, sprinkle with a mixture of salt and pepper, evenly distribute.
300 g of fresh raw champignons chop smaller. In a bowl, beat with a fork 4 eggs, add 150 g flour, 200 g mayonnaise, salt. Add mushrooms and mix well. This amount is enough to cook chops from one kilogram of meat.
Load the chops in a batter, and then fry in hot oil.
You can simplify the recipe a little by preparing a batter from the listed products, and fry the mushrooms in the aromatic oil remaining after cooking the meat. If desired, chopped onions can be added to them. Before serving, for each chop you just need to put a spoonful of fried mushrooms.
Crispy breading
For those who love a combination of crisp and tender flesh, a chop with mushrooms prepared according to this recipe will become a real find.
Prepare 3 containers. First, pour half a glass of flour. In the second, beat 4 eggs with a fork. And in the third, pour a handful of breadcrumbs and add any favorite spices. Subsequently, immerse the meat in each of the three containers, gently and evenly distributing flour, then an egg, and then crackers on the surface.
Fry the chops in hot vegetable oil on both sides and serve with sauce of overcooked mushrooms and cream.
Chop with mushrooms in the oven
And such a dish can be prepared even for the most solemn holiday. But the main thing is that you don’t even have to strictly follow the recipe. You can use the products in arbitrary proportions.
Beat the meat and lay in a deco or pan so that the pieces fit snugly together. Spread oyster mushrooms or mushrooms on top. Put in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
Grate hard cheese. Spread it over the surface and put the meat back into the oven for 5 minutes to melt the cheese.
If desired, raw or fried onions, tomatoes, mayonnaise, cream can be added to this dish before baking.
And before serving, such pork chops with mushrooms can be decorated with greens.
Garnish and serve
We described above how to cook delicious chops. But it is worth saying a few words about the side dish to them, because it is also an important component. This dish is perfect for a side dish of grilled or oven-baked vegetables, pasta, mashed potatoes, boiled rice. Many people like a combination of mushrooms, pork and legumes, so you can serve as a complement a side dish of beans or lentils. Food lovers will certainly appreciate the white or green asparagus.
Chop with mushrooms looks quite presentable by itself. But if you want to give it even more decorative, use greens, thin sliced black olives or gherkins.