Pork chops with baked apples and cabbage

I came across a clip of Gordon Ramsey cooking amazing looking pork chops, and couldn't help but go out and buy some chops to mess around with.

Ingredients

• 2 pork chops
• 1/8 cabbage, sliced
• 1 granny smith apple, cored and cut into wedges
• 1 stock cube / stock paste or 1 cup stock
• olive oil
• garlic, crushed
• thyme
• chilli powder
• salt and pepper to taste

Buttered cabbage

• Boil water with stock cube/paste (or if using stock, use less water).
• Cook cabbage until softened. Drain and place in a bowl. Cooking liquid can be reserved for making soup later if desired.
• Drop a small knob of salted butter into the cabbage, toss until butter is melted.

Pork chops

• Score rind on pork chops (through to fat but do not cut meat). 
• Generously grease a non-stick baking tray with olive oil. Season the bottom of the tray with salt, pepper, thyme and chilli powder.
• Dip rind of pork into the seasoned oil mixture, then place chops flat on tray and top with crushed garlic.
• Drizzle olive oil over the exposed side of the pork, follow with seasonings.
• Bake at 250 degrees for 10 minutes.
• Once pork is half cooked, remove from oven, coat apple wedges into pan juices then place underneath pork chops. This will elevate the rind and allow it to dry and become crispy. Return to oven and bake for another 10 minutes.
• To serve, spoon some of the buttered cabbage onto a plate. Top with a pork chop and peeled apple wedges.

The result? Crispy crackling, tender pork, sweet gooey baked apples and warm buttery cabbage. Perfect comfort food.