Lemon Pork Chops: The Italian Way 🇮🇹🍋

This is the dinner I make when I have lemons and about 10 minutes to put something together and a lot of times during the week it's always like 10 minutes I need to have dinner on the table. And better yet these pork chops only cost me $4 so tonight we're eating good and we're saving money. Every week I always try to slide or sneak a pack of these pork chops in my basket because they're cheap or they're cost-effective and it really helps save some money during the week especially with groceries so I think you guys are gonna love this recipe it's great let's put it together. So if you want to make this recipe you're gonna need lemons and you only need two lemons not a whole pile. Pork chops these are cheap pork chops these are the ones you see in the grocery store that everybody passes up but they're really good and then everything else is just pantry staples flour, butter, parsley, some white wine and then salt pepper and olive oil. So if you want to make this recipe just pick up some lemons, pork chops, you probably have everything else and that's it. So let's get started on the chops. So these pork chops are cut pretty thin we're gonna pound them out even thinner and if pork really isn't your thing you could sub it out with chicken or veal I mean that's the beauty of this recipe it works with any meat. So once you finish pounding them they should be about this thin there should be a little light coming through these look pretty good and that's really gonna help them cook really fast and that's kind of what makes this a quick dinner. So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna toss them in flour and the flour is really gonna help in the cooking it's gonna help seal in all the juices from the pork and then thicken up the sauce at the end. So the first thing we're gonna do is heat up a generous amount of olive oil and I want this oil to get really hot because we're only gonna cook these pork chops for about a minute on each side and then we're gonna go in with wine, lemon, butter so it's all about speed it's quick it's a quick recipe. A lot of times people overcook these pork chops and they're not tender but if you follow my recipe and you make it this way they're gonna be tender. So it's been about a minute you're not really looking for color on these you just want to just give them a quick sear for a minute and these look pretty good. Now we're gonna season them up with a little salt and some pepper and these are almost just about cooked so we're gonna essentially like stop the cooking process now we're gonna add in some white wine just pour that right in we'll give it a minute just to let the alcohol evaporate and then we're gonna go in with lemons. So I said we need two lemons and we're gonna we're gonna really give this like the lemon touch we're gonna go in with some peel some zest and some juice so the first one the first lemon here we'll add in some lemon zest that looks pretty good and then this lemon that you just zested we're gonna cut it we're gonna add in the juice use one of these things to make sure pits don't go in use your hand if you want alright so that's one lemon down the next lemon we're gonna peel it we're gonna add some big peels in here and this is really just for people that like lemon so this is like the next level lemon pork chops we'll add a few of those in there just gives more lemon flavor cut this open and then we'll add in this juice so I mean if you're making lemon pork chops you know you want to taste the lemon right shouldn't be like a hint of lemon this dish will let you know that there's lemon in it alright so now we got all the lemon in I'm gonna mix this up a little bit and you can see that pretty much like most of the wine is well there's still a little wine in here but the alcohol is gone you don't smell it so we're just gonna let this simmer in here let the lemons kind of get into the the pan sauce and we're just gonna cook this for about a minute and then we'll finish it off with some butter and parsley so you can see in here the wine is pretty much all the alcohol is gone we're left with this like thick pan sauce in here it's absorbing some of the flour that was on the pork chops so this looks good now we're gonna add in some butter and I'm going in with about two tablespoons of butter we're just gonna let this butter melt in here and if you see in here the butter really brings it together it thickens up the sauce and you could see you have this thick juice in here that's really just lemon butter and it's really good so these look pretty good what we're gonna do now is just turn off the heat we're gonna add in some parsley and that's really it you really want to get these on the table quick while the sauce is still sauce so let's put these on a plate and you could really serve this up with some rice or even quicker just some bread that's usually what we do it's just a quick dinner and you could see with all this sauce in here the bread you could dip the bread in there and if I'm telling you it's so good so good I mean you really can't go wrong with butter lemon and wine I think it makes everything taste good and if you want to know this is actually a traditional Italian recipe it's called scaloppini a libone and it's very common to do this with veal pork chicken that's why I said in the beginning of the video if pork's not your thing you could really use any meat it's a simple you know simple dish and that's really what a lot of the Italian dishes are they're very simple this one's really celebrating the lemons and I think we really did celebrate the lemon in this dish in every way the peel the zest the juice so it's really good you guys should definitely try it and if you like it let me know how you like it in the comments don't forget to hit the bell like and subscribe and also in the comments let me know if you like these quick weeknight dinners I'll definitely make some more let me know I'm always looking for some feedback and looking for inspiration for different things to make and I have a lot of these quick recipes in my back pocket so if you like these I'll definitely post some more