Pork Chops in Creamy Tomato Sauce

What I am loving about regularly cooking for several people…
(who will eat anything, well almost everything,) on a daily basis...
It gives me a chance to try out some of the many recipes I read everyday
So much inspiration, most, really so so simple and so so tasty
Just perfect

Recently staying with my Hawkes Bay Hosts, I came across this on the Better Recipes Site, submitted by Rachel Popa

Pork Chops in Creamy Tomato Sauce... of course, as usual, I often make some changes to make the recipe my own
Usually to add some extra flavour
This time I added Onions...Everything tastes better with Onions
Plus I used Passata instead of canned tomato sauce recommended by the recipe writer
And for extra seasoning some Vegeta Powdered stock.
Thumbs up from the hosts

Ingredients:

4 Pork Chops
2 teaspoons Garlic powder
Sea Salt and Black Pepper
1 tablespoon Olive oil
1 onion thinly sliced
1 cup Tomato Passata
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup hot water with 1 tsp Vegeta dissolved
1/4 cup basil chopped

Directions:
First, preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
Trim excess fat off the pork chops
Place the fat in a cold pan and slowly raise heat to medium and render it
Perfect for browning the chops

Sprinkle pork chops in garlic powder
Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Brown in the fat over medium heat… for about two or three minutes on each side.
Set aside
Add olive oil to pan and add onions

Lightly sauté till translucent
Meanwhile mix Passata, Cream and hot water with powdered Vegeta

Add to onions in the pan
Cook for about 2-3 minutes
Add chopped Basil

Place the pork chops in a baking dish, and pour onion sauce over pork chops..

Bake covered in the oven for 30-45 minutes or until pork chops are cooked through.
Tear some basil leaves over the top

Serve with Mashed Potato and other vegetable of choice… we had Brussel Sprouts and Cauliflower

Delicious
NB: Mary used the leftover sauce mixed with some fried bacon to smother some pasta
Waste not want Not, Another Dinner...always a winner