Friday, October 11, 2013

Czech Pork Chops with Bread Dumplings and Cabbage


Wowowow can I make this again right now? Can I eat this every night for the rest of my life? PLEASE?

It takes a little longer than I'd usually like to spend on a meal but TOTALLY 100% WORTH IT. When I went to Prague a few years ago, my favorite meal was pork butt with bread dumplings and sauerkraut. This came pretty darn close and was absolutely 100% what I was looking for. Make this, please. Please please please. And invite me over to try. Ohh wow yum.

Czech Pork Chops with Bread Dumplings and Cabbage
Recipe from K&L Food Blog

For pork:
4 pork chops
salt, pepper
1 cup vegetable broth
1 tbsp flour
1 tbsp vegetable oil

For dumplings:
2 cups plain flour
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
pinch salt
pinch sugar
10g fresh yeast
1 bread roll (I used 4 small dinner rolls)

For the cabbage:
About 2 pounds white/green cabbage
2 tbsp butter
3 tbsp onion
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
1 cup vegetable broth
cumin, sugar
vinegar
salt, pepper

For the dumplings: Mix bit of flour (about a fourth of a cup) with yeast, sugar and some lukewarm milk, leave for few minutes until yeast start to rise. Cut roll into cubes and place in the bowl along with rest of the milk and egg, mix all ingredients. Now add flour, yeast with milk, salt and stir everything together. Knead the resulting dough just as you would when making bread. Let the dough rest in a warm place to rise for an hour. Now divide the dough into 2, 3 parts and form rolls, leave again to raise for 30 minutes. Boil one at a time in a large pot with boiling, salted water for around 7-8 minutes on each side, then take out and cut with very sharp knife or length of thread.

For pork: Clean and wash meat, then season with salt and pepper. Place on a pan and fry on oil on both sides, then pour the broth and cook for few minutes until soft and tender. At the end thicken the sauce with flour and some water, season again.

For the cabbage: Wash cabbage, shred it finely. Place in a saucepan, and cover with broth, simmer. In another saucepan, melt butter, fry chopped onions until golden. Add cabbage, salt, pepper, cumin, sugar and vinegar, sprinkle with flour and cook until soft. 

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