Skillet Pork in Sour Cream Sauce
Tasty, affordable, appetizing, and perfect for any day of the week for the whole family. This skillet pork in sour cream sauce turns out incredibly tender and juicy — first seared over high heat, then simmered in broth and finished in sour cream. It goes with any side dish.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make soft, juicy pork in sour cream sauce in a skillet? Gather your ingredients. Boneless pork from any part of the animal works — loin, ham, or neck if you want it fattier. I used shoulder, trimmed of any excess fat. You can make the broth yourself or dissolve a little beef bouillon powder in boiling water.
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Step 2:
Rinse the pork, pat it dry, and cut it into medium pieces.
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Step 3:
Finely chop the garlic.
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Step 4:
Stir the starch into the cold milk, mixing until there are no lumps.
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Step 5:
Pour the cold milk-and-starch mixture into the sour cream and stir well. This keeps the sour cream from curdling as it simmers and helps thicken the sauce.
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Step 6:
Heat the olive oil in a skillet and melt the butter.
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Step 7:
Add the pork and sear it, stirring, over high heat until golden.
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Step 8:
Add the garlic, salt, and pepper to the meat and cook, stirring, for about 30 seconds.
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Step 9:
Turn the heat down to low. Pour 250 ml (about 1 cup) of meat or vegetable broth into the skillet and stir again.
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Step 10:
Bring the broth to a boil and simmer, covered, at a gentle bubble for 20 minutes. This is what makes the pork tender. If it's still very tough after that, add a little more broth and simmer another 5–10 minutes.
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Step 11:
Pour the sour cream–milk mixture into the skillet with the pork and stir.
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Step 12:
Bring the sauce to a boil and simmer everything together another 10 minutes at a gentle bubble. Taste and add more salt and pepper if needed.
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Step 13:
Take the finished pork off the heat, divide it among plates, and serve with any side dish. Enjoy!
- Besides pork, you can use any other meat in this dish. Keep in mind that the cooking time, flavor, and calorie count will change. Beef, for example, takes longer than pork, while chicken breast or turkey cooks faster.
- Since everyone's tolerance for salt, sweetness, bitterness, heat, acidity, and spice is different, always add spices and seasonings to your own taste! When you're using a seasoning for the first time, keep in mind that some are especially easy to overdo — chili pepper, for example.
- Use an oil with a high smoke point for frying! Every oil is only good up to a certain temperature — its smoke point, the point at which it starts to burn and forms toxic compounds, including carcinogens. Unrefined oils, with a few exceptions, have a low smoke point; they're full of unfiltered organic particles that scorch quickly. Refined oils stand up to heat better and have a higher smoke point. If you're cooking in the oven, in a skillet, or on the grill, make sure you're using an oil with a high smoke point. The most common high-smoke-point oils are refined sunflower, olive, and grapeseed oil.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Pork fat - 333 kcal/100g
- Pork meat - 357 kcal/100g
- Pork - low-fat roast - 184 kcal/100g
- Pork chop on a bone - 537 kcal/100g
- Pork - schnitzel - 352 kcal/100g
- Pork Shoulder - 593 kcal/100g
- Boar's leg - 113 kcal/100g
- Pork - 259 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Starch - 320 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- Broth - 15 kcal/100g
