Pork chops are easy to fry, and it’s simple to make gravy from the pan drippings. There are a number of ways to pan fry pork chops, but these are common ways to do so in the South.
Fried Pork Chops Recipe
Ingredients:
- Pork Chops
- Seasonings
- Flour (for breaded pork chops)
Directions:
Pork Chops without Breading Recipe
Pork chops can be fried without any breading by simply heating about 1/8 inch of oil in a skillet to medium high.
- If pan frying pork chops without any coating, then add some seasonings or rub. Just shake on a little salt and pepper or other favorite seasoning. Various seasoning products sold as rubs (and commonly used for grilling pork) work well too.
- When the oil is hot (but not smoking), place the pork chops in the oil. Then watch the sides. They will begin to turn white versus the pinkish color they are when added to the pan. When the white is about ¾ up the meat looking at it from the side, then flip the pork chop.
- Cook the flip side of the pork chop for a few minutes but not as long as the first side fried.
- Place on plate lined with paper towels to absorb any excess oil.
Pork Chops Fried with Breading Recipe
If you want breading on your fried pork chops, then that’s easy to do to.
- Put around ¾ cup of flour in a zip lock bag along with a ½ tsp of salt and ¼ tsp pepper or other favorite seasonings or rubs. Don’t go overboard on the seasonings, or you can’t taste the pork.
- Shake well to coat entirely the pork chops.
- Heat around 1/3 inch oil to medium hot in a skillet.
- Shake excess flour/seasonings off each pork chop and place in skillet.
- Do not flip the pork chops until they are completely browned on the bottom side. This is the most common mistake made in frying pork chops, and the breading falls off if they are turned too soon or multiple times.
- Again, watch for the pork chop edges to set and the color to turn white up the sides of the pork chops.
- Flip and brown the top side.
- Put on plate with paper towels – again to absorb extra cooking oil.
*Note: You can also chicken fry pork chops by dipping each one in egg plus milk (about ¼ cup milk per egg) and then into the flour mixture with favorite seasonings or any favorite fried chicken coating recipe. Again, shake off excess flour and fry as for plain breaded pork chops.
Fried Pork Chop Gravy Recipe
If you’re frying pork chops, you may also want to mix up some gravy. It’s simple to do and tastes wonderful over mashed potatoes, rice, or right over the fried pork chops.
- Remove any large pieces of breading that may be in the skillet and add vegetable oil or Crisco to make about ½ cup of grease in the pan. You may have that much grease in the pan, but it may have absorbed especially if you breaded the chops.
- Turn the heat down to medium on the oil.
- Add approximately 3 TBS of flour and use a fork to make a roux which is just flour browned in the oil so that it’s a thin paste. Adjust flour amount as needed. The consistency should be similar to a fruit smoothie.
- Slowly add about a cup and half of water or milk and stir briskly and continuously until the gravy begins to thicken up. Water will make a thinner brownish gravy while milk will make the thicker sawmill gravy.
- Let the gravy simmer until it is the thickness desired.
Cyndi Allison - Southern born and fed, Cyndi Allison is a college lecturer and newspaper advisor as well as being a freelance writer. She writes on ...
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