Friday, August 3, 2007

Milanese style pork chops

In a nice small restaurant near the lakes north of Milan i've had this great simple but delicious dish. I think it is a variation of 'Coteletta alla milanese'. Anyway, here's how i think they made it:

Ingredients
4 Pork chops (not so thin)
2 Eggs
Flour
Breadcrumbs
Parmesan cheese
a Lemon

Preparation
Use a meat hammer to beat up the pork chops until they are about 3 times as big. Leave the bone on (looks cool)
Take three plates: one with the flour, one with the eggs (loosely whisked), and one with a mixture of breadcrumbs and some parmesan cheese.
Put on a pan with some olive oil and turn up the heat (fairly high)
The following should be done rather fast (but not too fast, cooking = control) for each chop:
- put it on the plate with flour, turn it around so the whole chop is covered
- now the egg plate, turn it around fast and
- put the chop on the breadcrumbs/parmesan plate, flip it and make sure that it is covered, use some more crumbs if necessary.
Place the pork chop in the frying pan and immediately make another one. When this one is also in the pan flip the first one. When you're done with the third the first one is ready and the second one should be turned etc etc.

Serve with a quarter of a lemon.

Buono appetito !

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