This is a very simple dish that can easily be put together on a day when you’re too tired to cook and you’ll look like a champion!
First, preparing pork chops can be difficult. Preparing them this way makes them tender and keeps them moist. The recipe is for two pork chops but you can easily double or triple the amounts as long as you have a big enough dish. Be sure to choose an oven safe dish with a lid. All the preparations are done in the same dish. This is a one dish oven dinner.
Ingredients:
2 bone-in pork chops (or bone-in smoked pork chops which I used for this post)
1 leek, cleaned and sliced
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced lengthwise
2 tart apples, peeled and sliced
1 eight ounce can or box of low salt chicken broth
1 clove of peeled garlic ( or a generous pinch of granulated or powdered dry garlic)
salt
Directions:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
1. Choose an oven safe dish with a fitted lid.
2. Place the pork chops in the dish.
3. Place the cleaned and sliced leeks, apples, and sweet potatoes around the chops.
4. Pour a cup of chicken broth into the dish. Do not cover the chops with the broth.
5. Season with salt and dried garlic. Do not over season. Remember there is salt in the chicken broth (even in the low salt variety). If you’re using fresh garlic, peel one clove and place it in the pan alongside the meat. Discard the garlic clove when the or mash it in the sweet potatoes.
6. Put a sheet of aluminum foil over the dish and then put the lid on the pan. Scrunch up the foil all around the lid. You do not want any of the moisture to escape.
7. Put the lidded dish in the oven.
8. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 90 minutes to 2 hours. Check for doneness at 90 minutes. The meat should easily come away from the bone and there should be some liquid left. If not, put back in the oven, with the lid, for another 15 to 30 minutes. (If the chops are very thick…an inch or more…bake for 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 hours in a 325 degree oven and add more broth at 90 minutes cooking time).
When the chops are done, put on a serving plate. (The chops pictured here are smoked…they will be pink…they taste like ham. Regular, unsmoked chops will be tan/brown when done).
Take the apples out of the baking dish and put in a bowl. Mash with a fork….applesauce. Side-dish number one! 
Take the sweet potatoes and leeks and put them in another bowl. Top with a generous pat of butter and mash with a fork. Side-dish number two!! 
Spoon the remaining juice from the baking dish over the chops on their serving dish.
Delicious moist pork chops. Great dish for a fall or winter evening. Easy!
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