Lamb Chops And Apples In Mustard Sauce

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs apples, quartered, cored, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoon butter, unsalted
• 4 lamb loin chops, about 3/4 inch thick, trimmed of excess fat
• coarse salt
• 1/4 cup dry wine
• 1 cup heavy cream (or 1/2 cup low-fat yogurt or 1/2 cup low-fat sour cream and 1/2 cup low-fat milk)
• 1/3 cup dijon mustard (or (to taste)
• fresh ground pepper

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400°f.
• 2 spread the apples in a lightly buttered gratin dish, large enough to hold the lamb chops in a single layer.
• 3 place gratin dish in the oven and bake apples for 15 minutes.
• 4 while apples are baking, saute the salted lamb chops over medium heat until nicely colored on each side-7 to 8 minutes per side.
• 5 remove gratin dish from the oven and arrange the chops on top of the apples.
• 6 deglaze the saute pan with the wine and reduce by half.
• 7 drizzle reduction over the chops.
• 8 mix cream (or sour cream/yogurt and milk) and mustard, adding mustard little by little until you are happy with the taste.
• 9 pour evenly over the chops and apples and grate pepper overall.
• 10 return to oven and bake an additional 15 minutes.