Friday, October 26, 2012

Pork schnitzel with mashed potato and gravy



Ingredients:
For the pork schnitzel you will need:
Pork steak pieces (as many as you want)
1/2 cup of flour
1/2 cup of bread crumbs
2 eggs
Cooking oil
Ground pepper corns

For the gravy you will need:
1 cup of chicken stock
1 tbs butter
1/3 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup flower
Ground pepper corns
Salt


For the mashed potato you will obviously need the potatoes, some butter, water, milk, and most importantly salt.

I'm not going to explain how to make mashed potatoes here as I have faith that everybody knows how to do this. When you mash the potatoes you should always add some salt to taste. You can also add butter and milk to give it that creamy taste. If you want the potatoes to be a bit less thick you can add say 1/2 cup of water when you are mashing.

To make the pork schnitzel:
Find a large bowl and into it throw 1/2 a cup of flour and 1/2 a cup of bread crumbs. Mix it together and put to a side.

Now get another bowl, which is relatively flat, and break the 2 eggs into it. Mix the eggs until it becomes an even yellow mixture. Put this to a side.

Take the pork steak pieces and find something hard to bash them with. I used a sturdy cup bottom to do this. Hit the pork steaks to flatten and tenderize them. Do this evenly over all the pork pieces surfaces. Put the pork pieces to a side for now.

Now take another bowl and pour into it about 2-3 tbs of cooking oil, and add some ground pepper corns. Now throw the pork pieces we bashed earlier into this bowl and mix well together with the pepper and the oil until all the pork pieces are evenly covered.

Pre-heat a large frying pan with a very thick layer of cooking oil. Take each of the pork pieces (covered in cooking oil and ground pepper corns) and fully dip in the egg mixture we made earlier. Make sure the egg mixture covers the entire pork piece. Now take pork piece out of the egg mixture and throw it into the flour and bread crumb mix we made earlier. Roll the pork piece around until completely covered in flour and breadcrumbs. Now take the pork piece and throw it into the pre-heated frying pan. Repeat the same process for the pork pieces.

When frying, flip the pork pieces over often. Do this until they are nicely brown on both sides. Be careful not to fry for too long because you will end up with a dry tasting schnitzel without all the juices (still yummy but not as good). That's your pork schnitzels done!

Now were are going to make the gravy: 
Take a piece of butter and throw it into a frying pan. Wait for it to begin bubbling and then add the flour and mix together. Once it has become one mixture take it out of the frying pan and pour it into a small bowl or a cup. Mix it with some dry wine and throw the entire mixture back into the frying pan and on top of that add the 1 cup of chicken stock. Mix everything together, add salt and pepper to taste, and let simmer for a few minutes. You can add more water if you don't want the gravy to be to thick... And we are done! If you are like me you then you can't wait to eat it!

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