Smoked Paprika Pork Chops with Bell Pepper/ Corn Relish and Tomato Bruschetta

 

Ingredients

• 1  tablespoon  olive oil
• 1/2  cup  prechopped red onion
• 2  teaspoons  bottled minced fresh ginger
• 1/3  cup  chopped red bell pepper
• 1  teaspoon  ground coriander
• 1/4  teaspoon  dried thyme
• 1  (15.5-ounce) can no salt-added whole kernel corn, drained
• 1  teaspoon  cider vinegar
• 3/4  teaspoon  salt, divided
• 1/4  teaspoon  black pepper, divided
• 1 1/2  teaspoons  smoked sweet paprika
• 4  (4-ounce) center-cut boneless pork loin chops, trimmed
• Cooking spray

Preparation

Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add red onion and ginger; sauté 2 minutes or until tender. Add chopped red bell pepper, ground coriander, dried thyme, and corn; cook 3 minutes or until the bell pepper is tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in cider vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper; cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Spoon relish into a bowl.

Combine remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, and paprika; sprinkle evenly over pork. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add pork to pan; cook 4 minutes on each side or until done. Serve with relish.

 

 

 

 

  

Tomato Bruschetta

 

8 (2-ounce) slice Italian or sourdough bread

4 garlic cloves, halved

4 small tomatoes, each cut in half crosswise

4 teaspoon evoo

1/4 teaspoon kosher or sea salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Prepare grill.

Place bread slices on grill rack, grill 2 minutes on each side or until lightly browned. Rub 1 side of each bread slice with garlic clove half and 1 tomato half (tomato pulp will rub off onto bread). Discard tomato peels. Drizzle 1/2 teaspoon  olive oil over each bread slice, sprinkle evenly with salt and pepper.

 
 
 
 

 

I served this with a small spinach salad. It was YUMMO....

Comments

[Virginia J]

I gave you my address and I am still hungry!!!! Why is that???? Is it something that I said????

[Fruitfulvine2]

That relish looks deliciously tempting.

[don]

OH MY GOD...

YOU are a PUNK if I've ever seen one. At least you could have WARNED me this would be a food post.

Do you cater? LOL.

[gold]

OMG that look so good!!!

[Carla]

looks good girl

[Flora]

That looks sooo good.

[T.T.]

Hmm...another one to add to my collection. The Dulce cupcakes were a hit!

[Dei]

Thanks! Now I gotta go to the dang grocery store and buy pork chops 'cause if I don't cook this recipe, I'll be thinking about it all night.

Couldn't just let me go home and heat up left-overs. No you had to go and post this. :)

[Susan - Knitters Delight]

It's an eat up at your house! Yum is right.

[Ki]

Laaaawwddd ham murcy!

[Melanie]

that looks sooo good....try this....I cooked it Tuesday night but I was all out of couscous so I did basmati rice...but had I had the couscous I would have boiled it in water with a beef oxo cube not just plain water.

Curry Sausage Couscous

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes.aspx/curry-sausage-couscous

It was really really good...even the three year old ate it but picked out the nuts (I didn't have pistachios so I used pine nuts which she usually loves on a spinach salad so I was surprised).

[Ms. Behaving]

Have you noticed that I stopped bothering you about sewing me something???

::whispering:: that's because I'm ready to HARASS you to send me a plate instead.

GOSH.THAT.LOOKS.GOOD!!!! lol

[narcissaqtpie]

oooweeee thanks for sharing!!

[Nikki]

That looks good!