Crock pot pork chops with sauerkraut. Season the pork chops on both sides with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Sear on both sides until golden brown. Lightly salt and pepper both sides of the pork chops and lay them on top of the sauerkraut layer.
You can cook Crock pot pork chops with sauerkraut using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Crock pot pork chops with sauerkraut
- It’s 4 of pork chops.
- Prepare 16 oz of sauerkraut with liquid.
- You need 1 of chopped onion.
- You need 4 clove of minced garlic.
- It’s 1 of white wine or beer (for deglazing).
Remove pork from skillet; cover to keep warm. Once done, pork should be very tender and falling off the bone or breaking apart. Either shred or slice the pork and serve with the sauerkraut alongside mashed potatoes. Mix sauerkraut and juice, ketchup, soy sauce, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce together in a slow cooker to form a sauce.
Crock pot pork chops with sauerkraut step by step
Brown the pork chops in a frying pan. Then place them in the bottom of the crock pot..
In the same frying pan that you had the chops in place the onions and cook on low to medium heat until translucent then add garlic and let cook for another 2-3 minutes..
Splash a bit of wine or beer in the hot pan and use that liquid to break apart and dissolve all that flavor packed brown goodness on the bottom of the pan..
Now dump the sauerkraut with the liquid in the pan and mix it up with everything in there until evenly mixed. Then take all of that and dump it in the crock pot on top of the chops..
Leave on low for 6-8 hours.
Add pork chops; stir to cover chops with the sauerkraut sauce. Layer in a crock pot starting with a layer of dressing, then chops, then dressing, chops, and finish with dressing. Add chicken stock on top with a couple of dollops of butter. Season pork with salt, paprika, onion powder, and garlic powder. Heat pork just until browned on all sides.
