| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 1 hr 57 min |
| Prep: | 1 hr 30 min |
| Cook: | 27 min |
| Yield: | 5 servings |
Ingredients
- 1/4 of each, red, yellow and green bell peppers, chopped
- 1/4 red onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons garlic butter
- 1 pound fresh crabmeat
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley leaves
- 1 tablespoon fresh chopped basil leaves
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs
- 1 fresh egg
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Pepper jack cheese
- About 1/2 pound shredded asiago
- 2/3 cup half-and-half
- 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup Spanish paprika
- 1/2 cup cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup Black pepper
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 cup chili powder
- 1 cup granulated garlic
- 1 cup granulated onions
- 5 (1 1/2-inch thick) bone-in pork chops
- 2 pounds angle hair pasta, cooked, for serving
Instructions
- For the stuffing
- Dice the bell peppers and onions. Saute the bell peppers and onions in garlic butter. Set aside to cool.
- Press extra water out of crabmeat and set aside. Combine crab meat, bell pepper and the rest of the ingredients, mix very well, set aside.
- For the sauce:
- Bring whipping cream and half-and-half to a boil. Add the asiago cheese, remove from heat.
- For the seasoning:
- Combine all ingredients in a container with a tight-fitting lid.
- Cut a pocket into the pork chop and stuff it with the pepper jack cheese and crab mix. Season with the blackening seasoning. Cook your pork chop any way you see fit.
- Serve with 5 ounces hot angle hair pasta. Place the bone end of the chop in the angel hair and cover with Asiago sauce.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 5 servings |
| Calories | 1658 |
| Total Fat | 50 g |
| Saturated Fat | 21 g |
| Carbohydrates | 215 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 31 g |
| Sugar | 14 g |
| Protein | 100 g |
| Cholesterol | 325 mg |
| Sodium | 1582 mg |
Reviews
I LOVE PORK CHOPS.
Great dish! I did use bacon instead of crab, and I used pepper jack cheese rather than asiago. Delish!
My family loved this dish when I made.
Drove over to Watauga on a beautiful Sunday spring afternoon to try out Chef Point Cafe. (It was nice they let us call ahead to put our name on the waiting list–the place was packed!). And was it ever worth the drive! “Funky Joint” it is, but the food was tops. The blackened chop was stuffed–and I do mean stuffed!–with a mountain of crab meat. Frankly, I couldn’t eat it all. Which is why (when I actually prepare this recipe) I think the amount of crab stuffing will easily stretch to make six servings. One cost-saving observation: the chef did not use expensive lump crab meat for the stuffing in this dish. Crab claw meat (about half the cost or less of fresh lump) was used, and served very well. Now that I’ve seen the actual recipe, it is obvious to me why the Asiago Sauce is so rich and (as another reviewer observed) can easily over-power the dish. Easy does it! Without a doubt: this is the best gas station food I’ve ever had! (BTW, my wife had Chef Point’s famous fried chicken, and she thought ti was excellent).
Erv & Nancy
We live around the corner from Chef’s Point, and after having this, we decided to make it on our own. Making for the second time tonight… Absolutely love it. Thank you! Try their bread pudding… WOW.
Scott and Amia
We finished our chops off on a briquet bbq and they turned out very good. Be careful not to serve too much sauce on the final plating, as it can cover up the flavor of the seasoned pork chops.