Breaded Pork with Apple Salad

First off, let me say that the dressing for the salad was so tasty but the apple salad was uh-mazingly delicious! The flavors in the salad just seem to be made for each other or something - yum! Then you add some crunchy pork to the mix and it was just delightful to eat this meal. I added some roasted BBQ potatoes as a side dish. I tossed some chopped Yukon gold taters with homemade BBQ Seasoning and EVOO. Then I roasted them for about 30 minutes at 350º and they came out just delish!

Breaded Pork with Apple Salad      

Serves 2

Breaded Pork with Apple Salad

ingredients

• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
• 2 pieces pork loin or tenderloin pounded to 1/4" thickness
• 1/8 cup EVOO
• 1/2 Tbsp each Dijon mustard & honey
• 1/8 cup cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup EVOO
• 1 Granny Smith Apple, cut into matchsticks
• 1/2 cup fresh parsley, roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup scallions, thinly sliced

• Kosher Salt & Freshly Cracked Black Pepper

directions

1. Set out 3 shallow bowls... fill one with flour seasoned with S&P; another with lightly scrambled egg seasoned with S&P; and a third with Panko seasoned with S&P.

2. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat.

3. Season the pork with S&P on both sides. Dredge the pork in the flour, shake off excess, then the egg and then the panko. Add the 1/8 cup EVOO into the hot skillet and brown the pork on the first side for 2 minutes. Flip and put a press on top of the meat to get an even sear on the 2nd side for 2 minutes.

4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the mustard, honey, vinegar, EVOO (1/4 c), and S&P to taste. Add the apples, parsley and scallions and toss to combine.  (Try not to eat all the salad while your pork is cooking like I did!)

Plate the pork with the apples on the side with some potatoes (optional)

Enjoy!

This recipe was adapted from Michael Simon.