Juicy pork shoulder steaks in a creamy sauce with mushrooms and onions. A 25 minute one-pan meal – great for a weeknight dinner. You can also use pork chops or pork loin for this recipe!
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Gotta love a meat in creamy sauce recipe!
I make quite a lot of them because:
- I like a comforting, filling dinner – and creamy sauce dishes always hit the mark
- You can usually make it in one pan (less washing up yay!)
- You guys seem to like them too! You’re definitely my people 😘
📋 What do we need?
- Pork – I like to use pork shoulder steaks as they’re boneless and they have just a little bit of fat running through them to keep them nice and tender. If you like, you can swap for pork chops or pork loin steaks.
- Mushrooms – I’m using chestnut mushrooms as they have more flavour than regular white mushrooms, but you can use your favourite. Sliced portobello mushrooms are particularly good in this dish.
🔪 How to make this pork and mushroom recipe
***Full recipe with detailed steps in the recipe card at the end of this post.***
- Season the pork and fry in a pan with a little oil until golden.
- Remove from the pan, then fry onions, mushrooms and garlic.
- Sprinkle the onions with flour and stir to coat, then pour in chicken stock while stirring until you get a smooth sauce.
- Add in tomato puree, white wine vinegar and cream. Stir together to combine, then add the pork steaks back in and simmer for 10 minutes.
👩🍳PRO TIP I like to reserve a few fried mushrooms and onions during the frying stage to place on top at the end so they’re not all hidden in the sauce.
Serve right away with your favourite side dishes.
🍽️ What to serve it with
- Creamy Mashed Potatoes
- Crispy Roast Potatoes
- Green Beans with Parmesan and Garlic
- Easy Garlic Bread or homemade Artisan Bread for dipping
Bonus tip – If you don’t want to make this a full meal with lots of sides, slice up the pork, place it in a warm flatbread and top with the mushrooms and onions. Then serve with the creamy sauce for dipping.
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Smothered Pork
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 4 boneless pork shoulder steaks
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 onion peeled and thinly sliced
- 6 mushrooms sliced (I like chestnut mushrooms, but use your favourite)
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour
- 360 ml (1 1/2 cups) chicken stock
- ½ tbsp tomato puree paste for US
- ½ tbsp white wine vinegar
- 60 ml (1/4 cup) double (heavy) cream
To Serve:
- 2 tbsp freshly chopped parsley
Instructions
- Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat.3 tbsp olive oil
- Sprinkle both sides of the pork steaks with 1/4 tsp of the salt and 1/4 tsp of the pepper.4 boneless pork shoulder steaks, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Place in the pan and fry for 6-7 minutes, turning once, until browned. Remove from the pan and place on a plate.
- Add the remaining 1 tbsp of oil to the pan.
- Add in the sliced onion, sliced mushrooms and the remaining 1/4 tsp each of salt and pepper.1 onion, 6 mushrooms
- Fry for 5 minutes, stirring often, until the onions have softened.
- Add the garlic. Fry for a further minute, whilst stirring.3 cloves garlic
- Sprinkle the flour over the onions and mushrooms and stir together to coat.2 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour
- Pour in the stock whilst stirring.360 ml (1 1/2 cups) chicken stock
- Add in the tomato puree, white wine vinegar, and cream and stir again.1/2 tbsp tomato puree, 1/2 tbsp white wine vinegar, 60 ml (1/4 cup) double (heavy) cream
- Add the pork steaks back to the pan and simmer for 10 minutes to thicken the sauce and heat the pork steaks through.
- Serve topped with a sprinkling of fresh parsley.2 tbsp freshly chopped parsley
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Notes
However, you can make it ahead if you like. Make the dish, then quickly cool, cover and refrigerate. Remove from the fridge 30 mins before you want to reheat it to take the chill off it, then reheat, covered, in the oven at 180c/375F for about 20-25 minutes, until piping hot throughout. You’ll need to stir the sauce a couple of times during re-heating, and you may need to add in a splash of water or stock to help loosen the sauce. Alternatively you can reheat in a pan (covered) over a medium-low heat for about 15-20 minutes, until piping hot throughout. Stir a few times and add a splash of water or stock if needed. Ingredient swaps
- Swap out the mushrooms for other vegetables – such as chunks of courgette or green beans.
- Replace the pork shoulder steaks with pork chops or pork loin steaks.
- Swap out the cream for creme fraiche for a slightly tangier finish.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I made this last night. It tasted great, but today I’m cooking the rest of the meat longer, simmering in the sauce a couple hours to render out the fats and make it tenderer. Now that I found you (I’d googled pork shoulder steak recipes) I’m going to look at your other recipes.
You must have reserved some of the mushrooms because not all of yours have sauce on them. I wish I had done that. My sauce was super creamy and a bit thick. Overall it was an A+ recipe. I added asparagus bits to the sauce. So good. Then served with rice and a side of veggies. Thank you!
I am just finishing cooking it now. I used sour cream and apple cider vinegar. It tastes great.
I haven’t even made the recipe yet but wanted to hop on to say thank you for the way you write the instructions. Most of my recipes I print out are on 2 pages. Ingredients on 1st page, instructions on 2nd page. I’m constantly flipping back and forth to see the measurements for the added ingredient. Your instructions have them listed in each step. Love it! Btw, the recipe sounds wonderful. Thanks
I made this dish last night…I feel that the pork shoulder staeks needed to be rendered a lot more…the the sauce something needs to be eliminated…ok enough said….today I made this dish with chicken breasts and added white wine instead of white wine vinegar…fabulous but I am sure that this dish will be better tomorrow as.is everything …George
Great recipe, have also substituted the pork for chicken and works great !!
I absolutely loved this recipe! I will add it to my favourite and also try it with meatballs and beef instead of pork
Easy to follow and a really tasty dish! Just what I needed on a cold day! Thanks Nicky x
Another great recipe, I have cooked many of your recipes and everyone is a winner, I cooked this with little roast potatoes and broccoli and it was delicious, thank you very much