Pork Chops with Fennel Salad


Pork Chops with Fennel Salad
Makes: 4 servings
Start to Finish 27 mins
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Pork Chops with Fennel Salad
Ingredients
  • 4 1/2-inch thick pork loin chops
  • Salt
  • Ground black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons  olive oil
  • 2 oranges
  • 12 ounces  young green beans, trimmed
  • 1 tablespoon  honey
  • 1/4 teaspoon  salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon  ground black pepper
  • 1 red pear or apple, cored and thinly sliced
  • 1/2 of a fennel bulb, cored and thinly sliced
Directions

1. Sprinkle pork chops lightly with salt and pepper. In a 12-inch skillet heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Add chops; cook for 6 minutes. Turn chops and squeeze juice from half of one orange over chops. Cook for 6 to 8 minutes more or until just pink in center.

2. Meanwhile, in another skillet place green beans, adding enough water to cover. Bring to boiling; reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 8 minutes or until tender. Drain.

3. For fennel salad, juice remaining orange half in bowl. Stir in honey, remaining olive oil, the 1/4 teaspoon salt, and the 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Peel and slice remaining orange. Add orange, pear, and fennel to the orange juice-honey mixture.

4. Place chops on serving plates with beans; spoon any pan juices over beans. Add fennel salad and top with fennel fronds.

Nutrition Facts (Pork Chops with Fennel Salad)
  • Servings Per Recipe 4,
  • cal. (kcal) 406,
  • Fat, total (g) 23,
  • chol. (mg) 68,
  • sat. fat (g) 6,
  • carb. (g) 27,
  • Monosaturated fat (g) 12,
  • Polyunsaturated fat (g) 2,
  • Trans fatty acid (g) 0,
  • fiber (g) 7,
  • sugar (g) 16,
  • pro. (g) 25,
  • vit. A (IU) 777,
  • vit. C (mg) 54,
  • Thiamin (mg) 1,
  • Riboflavin (mg) 0,
  • Niacin (mg) 6,
  • Pyridoxine (Vit. B6) (mg) 1,
  • Folate (µg) 69,
  • Cobalamin (Vit. B12) (µg) 1,
  • sodium (mg) 214,
  • Potassium (mg) 907,
  • calcium (mg) 81,
  • iron (mg) 2,
  • Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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