Pork Chops (Pressure Cooker)
Pork Chops (Pressure Cooker)
This is a base recipe for tender pork chops using your pressure cooker. The time stated for at pressure is based on a stove top pressure cooker with 80 kPa (12 psi) pressure, so this will work as stated for electric pressure cooker. I used my 9 liter (9½ quart) stove top pressure cooker. Follow you pressure cooker safety instructions at all times.
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 4 thick cut pork chops, ¾ inch thick, bone in
- 2-3 tablespoons butter
- salt and black pepper, as desired
- 1 cup vegetable stock, or pork or chicken stock
Optional - To Make Gravy
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Add the butter to your pressure cooker, keeping lid off for this part, and heat. when melted, add two pork chops to the cooker and season with salt and pepper as desired and brown the chops for about 2 minutes. (I was snap happy with the camera and took the photo before the salt and pepper.)
- Turn the chops over and brown the other side, season with salt and pepper as desired. Remove to a bowl and add more butter if needed. repeat with the two remaining chops.
- Add the vegetable stock and the first two chops to the cooker, place the lid on, add the weight (the jiggler) and turn heat to high. When the jiggler starts to vent pressure and starts moving, set your timer for 10 minutes and reduce heat to low or medium to keep the jiggler moving and venting pressure.
- When 10 minutes have passed, turn off heat and move the cooker to an unused burner and allow the cooker to release pressure naturally.
- When you have indication that the pressure cooker had no pressure inside, open the pressure cooker.
- Optional, but worth it. Remove the chops from the pressure cooker, leaving the liquid in the pot. Mix together the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons of water in a cup. Place the pot back on low heat, no lid this time, and when hot, whisk in the cornstarch slurry and whisk until thickened, there, you just made pork gravy.
- Ready to plate. While the pressure cooking is working, or cooling down, make your side dishes. The 3 pots on the counter, left to right, gravy, daikon, and mashed potatoes, which I cooked the potatoes in the pressure cooker right before making the chops, and mashed while the cooker was working on the chops.
- Served.
Notes
And like an idiot, I forget to get the price on the pork chops at Tesco, will update this once I go back up to the city.
The Real Person!
The Real Person!
I made these on 7 June 2018, and they are perfect, fork tender, and juicy. Highly recommended if you have a pressure cooker you are not using 🙂