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Juicy and Tender Pork Chops Recipe

This juicy and tender pork chops recipe (receita de costeletas de porco), is a very popular dish in cuisine.
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Preparation time2 h 15 min
Cooking Time 25 min
Ready In2 h 40 min
Level of DifficultyEasy
Servings4

Ingredients

6 pork chops4 cloves of garlic1 bay leafLemon juice (to taste)Salt and pepper (to taste)Hot sauce or piri piri sauce (to taste)Olive oil to taste1 tablespoon of water Get Portuguese ingredients

Preparation

  1. In a bowl, season the pork chops with the salt, pepper and hot sauce (to taste).
  2. Chop up the garlic and bay leaf and add to the bowl.
  3. Add the lemon juice to the seasoning and mix all the contents together, cover it, and let marinate for about 2 hours.
  4. After 2 hours, heat the olive oil in a frying pan.
  5. Add the pork chops to the pan and let them brown to a golden color and remove them.
  6. Now add the remainding marinade sauce from the bowl to the frying pan with the olive oil, the water and let it continue cooking until well done.

NOTE: The sauce from the pan goes great when served with some rice or fried potatoes.

Recipe Credit: easyportugueserecipes.com

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Comments
Dawn Couto
Dawn Couto
Simple and flavorful! Thanks for sharing.
1 Year ago, Saturday, January 13, 2024
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Janet
Janet
Sounds great and so easy to make.
3 Years ago, Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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Port
Yes 🙂👍
3 Years ago, Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Mark
Mark
This recipe is very unclear on measurements. I seasoned the chop but I didn’t French then enough to have marinade left in the bowl. What’s to drench them in beside mom juice and hot sauce. I don’t want either over powering in taste.
3 Years ago, Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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Port

If there isn't any marinade left, you should not add additional sauce or lemon juice Mark, you can however fry the potatoes in the olive oil you friend the pork chops in, it will still contain a lot of flavor.

3 Years ago, Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Colleen
Colleen
Step 6 says continue till done, doesnt say to put porkchops back in pan? Hiw much olive oil. Doesnt give much sauce to put over rice. Measuements would be handy
3 Years ago, Sunday, December 12, 2021
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