Pork Chops Stuffed with Goat Cheese, Spinach and Sun-dried Tomatoes

I don't exactly know how I stumbled upon this recipe.  Maybe it was one of those "pop-up" things on Facebook - you know what I mean - they "send" you pages that you might be interested in because I don't remember ever hearing of this blog or webpage before.

This recipe comes to us from the Foody Schmoody Blog.   As always, I made some changes to the recipe which I will mark with an **

This is a really easy recipe to make.  Chances are you will have to make a trip to the grocery store for the ingredients.  Surprisingly enough, I did have most of the ingredients, except the spinach.   

Pork Chops Stuffed with Goat Cheese by Food Schmoody

Ingredients

1 to 2 T butter
5 boneless pork chops ** (her recipe said 4 - mine made 5)
4 cups fresh spinach
4 oz goat cheese ** (I used 5 oz. goat cheese)
1/3 cup julienne style sun dried tomatoes drained, packed in oil ** (I didn't have those - mine were just sun dried whole tomatoes - so I chopped them up into small pieces)
1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs ** (I used crumbled up Ritz crackers)

Directions:
Rinse the spinach and place it in a microwave safe bowl with a fitted cover.  (her instructions are to microwave it with 1 T water on high for 1 minute until wilted - it took me about 3 minutes to get my spinach wilted).

Drain the water from the spinach in a colander.

In a separate bowl, mix together the goat cheese, wilted lettuce and sun dried tomatoes.

Cut a slit in each pork chop, making it deep enough to create a pocket, but not enough to cut the pork chop in half.

Spoon the spinach mixture into each pocket and coat each pork chop on both sides in the crumbs to coat.

Heat the butter in a large skillet and add the pork chop.  Cook about 4 to 5 minutes until nicely brown (I put a cover over the skillet while it was cooking) and turn over.

Entire Recipe:

Pork Chops Stuffed with Goat Cheese by Food Schmoody

Ingredients
1 to 2 T butter
5 boneless pork chops ** (her recipe said 4 - mine made 5)
4 cups fresh spinach
4 oz goat cheese ** (I used 5 oz. goat cheese)
1/3 cup julienne style sun dried tomatoes drained, packed in oil ** (I didn't have those - mine were just sun dried whole tomatoes - so I chopped them up into small pieces)
1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs ** (I used crumbled up Ritz crackers)

Directions:
Rinse the spinach and place it in a microwave safe bowl with a fitted cover.  (her instructions are to microwave it with 1 T water on high for 1 minute until wilted - it took me about 3 minutes to get my spinach wilted).

Drain the water from the spinach in a colander.

In a separate bowl, mix together the goat cheese, wilted lettuce and sun dried tomatoes.

Cut a slit in each pork chop, making it deep enough to create a pocket, but not enough to cut the pork chop in half.

Spoon the spinach mixture into each pocket and coat each pork chop on both sides in the crumbs to coat.

Heat the butter in a large skillet and add the pork chop.  Cook about 4 to 5 minutes until nicely brown (I put a cover over the skillet while it was cooking) and turn over.

Verdict:

Yep, we have another winner!  My resident expert, aka my husband, loved it.  I thought it was pretty good myself.  It was super easy to make.  The pork chops were nice and moist.  My other "expert", will be taste testing his tonight for his lunch (he works 3rd shift).