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Apple Cider Pork with Red Cabbage

Bring a taste of fall to your dinner table with this German-inspired skillet recipe of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection!

Bring a taste of fall to your dinner table with this German-inspired skillet recipe of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection! | www.CuriousCuisiniere.com

Come apple season, all we think about is apples (and maybe the occasional pumpkin), so it’s no surprise that when thinking about fall fruits for this month’s Wine Pairing Weekend, our first thoughts went to cider.

American Cider vs French Cidre

Now, we’re not talking about the “cider” most widely known in the US and Canada. That’s just pressed apple juice that is sometimes mulled with spices.

There’s nothing wrong with fresh cider. Actually, we couldn’t get through the fall without it.

But it’s not true cider.

Bring a taste of fall to your dinner table with this German-inspired skillet recipe of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection! | www.CuriousCuisiniere.com

When I traveled to France for the first time, one of the things I fell in love with was cidre. It was bubbly, like champagne, and had just enough apple sweetness to curb the bite of a dry white wine.

I haven’t been able to find anything quite as good as Normandy Cidre since.

On a recent trip to Door County, WI, we heard about a winery that made cider in the Normandy fashion.

Of course, we had to stop.

Island Orchard Cider uses apples grown on Washington Island, an area with a similar climate to Northern France.

We tend to love anything aged in oak, so we weren’t surprised when their Oak Aged Apple Cider was our clear favorite.

The oak adds just a hint of charchoal-y depth to round out the slight sweetness of the apples, like putting a dash of molasses in your mulled cider. This is a dry cider, closer to a brut champagne, but it paired extremely well with the sweetness of the pressed apple cider we used with our pork.

Bring a taste of fall to your dinner table with this German-inspired skillet recipe of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection! | www.CuriousCuisiniere.com

Our slow cooked apple cider pork with red cabbage recipe

There is something almost too perfect about apples and pork.

And, when you slow cook them together, the end result is bound to be astounding.

Red cabbage adds such a beautiful color to this dish. Even if you have cabbage haters in the family, test this dish out on them. We have found that slow-cooking cabbage takes away much of the bitterness that turns so many people off to cabbage.

And, slow-cooking cabbage in apple cider makes things even sweeter!

Bring a taste of fall to your dinner table with this German-inspired skillet recipe of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection! | www.CuriousCuisiniere.com

 

Bring a taste of fall to your dinner table with this German-inspired skillet recipe of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection! | www.CuriousCuisiniere.com
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Apple Cider Pork with Red Cabbage

Bring a taste of fall to your table with this German inspired dish of apple cider pork chops with red cabbage. Everything is braised to tender, flavorful perfection!
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: German
Keyword: apple cider, pork chops
Servings: 3 people
Calories: 527kcal
Author: Sarah | Curious Cuisiniere

Ingredients

  • 2 tsp oil
  • 1 lb bone-in pork chops
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 Tbsp salted butter
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 1 lb red cabbage, shredded
  • 1 sweet baking apple (like Gala), sliced
  • 2 c pure apple cider
  • 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tsp prepared mustard (or 1 tsp mustard powder)

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350F.
  • Heat the oil in a cast iron skillet or Dutch oven over medium high heat.
  • Sprinkle both sides of the pork chops with thyme, salt and pepper. Press the seasonings into the chops.
  • Place the pork chops in the hot pan and sear until golden, 2-3 min each side. Remove the pork from the pan and set aside.
  • Heat 1 Tbsp of butter in the pan and add onion. Saute over medium heat until they begin to caramelize, 5-8 min. Add cabbage and apple slices, sautéing 2-3 minutes after each addition.
  • In a small bowl, mix together cider, vinegar and mustard. Pour over the veggies and deglaze the pan, scraping up any stuck bits.
  • Remove the pan from the heat and nestle the pork chops into the cabbage mixture.
  • Place the skillet or Dutch oven into the preheated oven and cook for 1 hour, uncovered, basting halfway through with the juices in the pan.
  • Remove from the oven and let stand for 5-10 minutes before serving. 

Nutrition

Calories: 527kcal | Carbohydrates: 39.8g | Protein: 45.9g | Fat: 20.1g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 139mg | Sodium: 363mg | Fiber: 6.4g | Sugar: 30.4g

 


Wine pairings for fall fruits!

Savories

Sweets

Surprise!

David of Cooking Chat started this event in June of 2014, and every month since then this group of wine and food lovers have had a great time! For more background, check out the original post announcing Wine Pairing Weekend. You can see the full list of past and upcoming #winePW events here.

 


This is one of the recipes from the earlier days of Curious Cuisiniere. We’ve updated our pictures since we first shared it, but we’ve left some originals here, in case you’ve found us in the past and are looking for that old, familiar image.

 

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Bring the flavors of fall to your table with these slow-baked apple cider pork chops and flavorful red cabbage. | www.curiouscuisiniere.com

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Martin D. Redmond

Saturday 11th of October 2014

Love that you did a pairing with hard cider Sarah. It's a beverage I've been wanting to explore a bit more

Sarah

Sunday 12th of October 2014

We do love our hard cider. It's a shame it is under appreciated in the States. But, hopefully we can change that!

Michelle Williams

Saturday 11th of October 2014

This looks really good. Thank you for recipe!

eliotthecat

Saturday 11th of October 2014

Lots of apple dishes today and apples pair so well with pork.

Camilla @ Culinary Adventures

Saturday 11th of October 2014

You know I lean more towards the savory than the sweet. This looks like an amazing pairing! Will be tracking down that cider soon. Thanks for cooking - and sipping - with #winePW.

Wendy, A Day in the Life on the Farm

Saturday 11th of October 2014

Wow...this sounds like my kind of recipe. Going into the Try it Tuesday File right now. Thanks.

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