Lemony Brown Butter Pork Chops
with Mashed Potatoes & Green Beans
- Wheat
- Milk
Brown butter elevates everything it touches with a deeply toasty, nutty flavor that simply can’t be replicated. Garlic and lemon add savory, tangy notes to make a rich sauce that’s perfect for spooning over pan-seared pork chops. Creamy mashed potatoes and roasted green beans round out this classically comforting meal.
Ingredients
12 ounce
Potatoes
6 ounce
Green Beans
3 clove
Garlic
1 unit
Lemon
2 tablespoon
Flour
(Contains: Wheat)
10 ounce
Pork Chops
1.5 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
Cooking Oil
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces.
• Place potatoes in a medium pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 10-12 minutes. Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid, then drain. • Return potatoes to pot. Mash with sour cream and 2 TBSP butter(4 TBSP for 4 servings) until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. Taste and season with salt and pepper. • Keep covered off heat until ready to serve.
• While potatoes cook, trim green beans if necessary. Peel and mince garlic. Thinly slice half the lemon. Squeeze juice from remaining lemon into a small bowl (for 4 servings, thinly slice one lemon; halve and squeeze juice from second lemon).
• Toss green beans on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper. • Roast on top rack until browned and tender, 12-15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, pat pork* dry with paper towels; place between two large pieces of plastic wrap. Pound with a mallet or rolling pin until ½ inch thick. Season all over with salt and pepper. • Place flour on a plate; season with salt and pepper. Working one piece at a time, press pork into seasoned flour until fully coated. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add coated pork; cook until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes per side • Turn off heat; transfer to a cutting board. Wash out pan.
• Add 3 TBSP butter (6 TBSP for 4 servings), garlic, lemon slices, and lemon juice to pan used for pork. • Return to medium-low heat and cook, stirring, until garlic is fragrant and butter is flecked with brown bits, 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Slice pork crosswise. • Divide mashed potatoes, pork, and green beans between plates. Spoon brown butter sauce (with lemon slices) over pork and serve.
Pork is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 145°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the lemony brown butter sauce, calling it a "game changer" that elevated the dish 🍋
- Ease of prep: Some found it time-consuming, taking over an hour; consider streamlining steps for quicker preparation
- Suggestions: Try adding capers for a pork piccata twist; roast green beans in an air fryer for perfect texture
- Portions: A few wished for more green beans or pork; consider increasing portion sizes slightly
- Texture: Ensure pork stays juicy; some found it dry or tough when cooked as directed
Reviews from our home cooks
It was delicious but it took me a long time. I don't think it was necessary to pound the pork chops thinner; just made my kitchen messy. Very tasty though, that lemony sauce was great in the green beans, the pork, and the potatoes.
This was a delicious meal. We loved the flavors that the lemony brown butter sauce gave the pork chops and surrounding mashed potatoes.
I get tired of oven baked green beans, this time I boiled them with a bit of vinegar and some seasoning. Otherwise, the meal was wonderful, I loved the brown butter.
The lemon pork was fantastic. Great sauce from the pork, green beans were perfect. Hope to see more like this in the future.
I roasted the potatoes and served them with a Hollandaise sauce and sauteed chanterelle mushrooms to add to the pork chops. This rounded out the flavor profile of this delicious meal. Would order again.
Very good. I added some lemon pepper vs just salt and pepper to the green beans for more flavor.
Loved the lemon butter sauce. Should I have split the potatoes into 3 servings? Yes. Did I? Absolutely not.
Great flavors, but make sure you get all the seeds out of the lemon slices before adding to the sauce.
Easy and delicious! My fiancé loved it as well and he can be a picky eater
This was a new try for me. Everything was great tasting, but the brown butter sauce ended up being a bath of watery butter that was very lemon forward. I also was simply not sure what to do with the lemon slices. They just sat on my plate as a strange garnish. This is more of a preference over quality. The ingredients were fresh and all the sides, as well as the porkchop itself, were delicious. I just would have preferred a thicker sauce.
