I try and not post every cook I do, just the ones that are different that you guys might enjoy. Well here is one that fits the bill...A fried pork chop with so much red pepper on it you would think it would not be edible- or way too damn hot anyways. But that is not the case at all. You see the capsaicin from the cayenne pepper is soluble in oil, so it pulls the heat out of the red pepper. What you are left with are the floral, sweet notes in the cayenne pepper with just a touch of heat. You will just have to trust me on that. I did not believe it the first time I saw an old man at the camp make them. But he was 100% correct. And the pork chops were some of the best I have ever had. That was over 30 years ago and we still cook them this way. The oil though, it will be very spicy! Good for frying fish and seafood, but not much else if you care to save it (we always saved it at the camp).
So here we go! Pork chops seasoned with salt and so much red pepper there is NO WAY you would think you could eat it! You want about 1/2tsp. or more per side of each pork chop. Let them sit for at least 5 minutes for the salt and pepper to soak into the surface of the meat and stick.
Fry them up on high heat in a C.I. pan with enough oil so the chops just start to barely float. you want them to brown very well and the edges of the fat to get very dark. Sorry, no pic.; thought I snapped one.
The plate:
Just an old cajun camp meal for the guys at the firehouse. They put the beans on around 9a.m.; all I did was season the chops and fry them up when I got there.
So here we go! Pork chops seasoned with salt and so much red pepper there is NO WAY you would think you could eat it! You want about 1/2tsp. or more per side of each pork chop. Let them sit for at least 5 minutes for the salt and pepper to soak into the surface of the meat and stick.
Fry them up on high heat in a C.I. pan with enough oil so the chops just start to barely float. you want them to brown very well and the edges of the fat to get very dark. Sorry, no pic.; thought I snapped one.
The plate:
Just an old cajun camp meal for the guys at the firehouse. They put the beans on around 9a.m.; all I did was season the chops and fry them up when I got there.
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