Pork chops with cider cream sauce

Name: Pork chops with cider cream sauce
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 1 medium banana (long) shallot, finely sliced; 2 tablespoons plain flour; 1 teaspoon flaked sea salt, plus a little extra for seasoning; 350 ml good perry or cider (such as Burrow Hill); 2 sprigs of fresh thyme, plus extra to garnish; 75 ml cider vinegar; 1 clove of garlic, finely sliced; 6 juniper berries, bruised with a pestle in a mortar; 4 black peppercorns; 2 big fat pork chops; 40 g unsalted butter; sunflower oil, for frying; 50 ml double cream

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

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By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

About

I contributed this recipe to a book that never got published, so I took it back. Remember that, if you can’t find a good perry, you can replace it with an interesting medium-sweet cider. This is delicious served with creamed celeriac and more perry or cider.

Ingredients

1 medium banana (long) shallot, finely sliced
1 clove of garlic, finely sliced
6

Sauce
Main course

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6.
Put the shallot, garlic and aromatics into a small ovenproof frying pan. Pour over the perry or cider, along with the cider vinegar, and place over a medium heat. Reduce briskly until you have a