Primal Chow Breaded Pork Chops with homemade marinara sauce

This recipe was originally made with all-purpose flour, milk, mushroom condensed soup. As you noticed, not Paleo friendly. I just could not shred our favorite dish, it's versatile as well. You can use it with flank steak, or chicken, veal, etc. I found the marinara sauce years ago, and it's truly a gem! I use it on everything Italian. I can't claim it mine though. It belongs to Giada De Laurentiis. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Olive Oil
1 small onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
2 (32-ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
4 to 6 basil leaves
2 dried bay leaves
Sea Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions:

In a large casserole pot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic and saute until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Add celery and carrot and season with salt and pepper. Saute until all the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, basil, and bay leaves and reduce the heat to low. Cover the pot and simmer for 1 hour or until thick. Remove bay leaves and taste for seasoning. If sauce tastes too acidic, add grass-fed organic butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, to round out the flavor. Pour half the tomato sauce into the bowl of a food processor. Process until smooth. Continue with remaining tomato sauce. If not using all the sauce, allow it to cool completely and then pour 1 to 2 cup portions into plastic freezer bags. Freeze for up to 6 months.

While the sauce is simmering, you prepare the pork chops as it needs to bake for an hour and a half.

Ingredients:

6 pork chops
garlic powder
pepper
2 free-range eggs, beateen
1 cup of coconut flour
4 tablespoons olive oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Season pork chops with garlic powder and pepper. Then drenched them in the eggs, and coat them liberally with coconut flour. Fry them in olive oil 3-5 minutes per sides. Transfer the chops to a 9 x 13 inch baking dish and cover with foil. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour.

 After the chops have been baking for an hour, pour the marinara sauce and bake for an additional 30 minutes.
We served the pork chops with baked asparagus, and Sara Fragoso's "Kids love Cabbage slaw".


Here is the recipe for the slaw:


Ingredients:

2 cups purple cabbage, diced
1 cup cucumber, diced
1 shallot, minced
1/2 cup mango, finely diced
1Tbl balsamic vinegar
2 Tbl Olive Oil
Black pepper to taste

Direction:

Just mix everything!

And last, recipe for Baked Asparagus:

Ingredients:

1 Lbs of asparagus
Old Bay
Olive Oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Place the asparagus on a baking sheet. Drizzle with Olive Oil, and sprinkle with Old bay. Bake in preheated oven for 15 - 20 minutes. That's it!

Chow down and enjoy!