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Serbian-style pork chops with peppers and tomatoes

Name: Serbian-style pork chops with peppers and tomatoes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Balkan
Ingredients: 1 kg Pork; 30 g Salt; 100 ml Vegetable oil; 80 g Tomato paste; 200 g Onion; 200 g Bell pepper; 200 g Tomatoes; 800 ml Pork broth

Pork chops braised with onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, and tomato paste in a vegetable-thickened sauce. Serve with rice; serves 5.

Balkan cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 hr 15 min
Total time: 1 hr 30 min
Servings: 5 servings
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Balkan

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Serbian-style pork chops with peppers and tomatoes are a classic dish of lightly pounded pork loin slices braised in a vegetable sauce. The meat is seared on both sides, then onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, and a little tomato paste are sautéed in the pan drippings. The sauce is thickened by the vegetables themselves, without flour. Use fresh vegetables in summer or preserved lečo, a pepper and tomato mixture, in winter. This dish is most often served with rice.

Instructions

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Use bone-in pork loin chops if desired. Lightly pound the pork slices, season with some of the salt, and sear in the oil on one side.
Turn the meat over and sear the other side.
Set the seared meat aside and sauté the chopped onion, bell pepper, and tomatoes in the pan drippings. Add a little tomato paste and cook everything together briefly.
Return the meat to the pot, pour in some of the broth, cover, and braise until tender, adding more broth as needed. Taste the sauce at the end and add the remaining salt to taste—you probably will not need all of it if the broth was salted. Serve with rice.

Tip: Make two or three cuts in the fat along the edges of the pork loin slices to keep them from curling during searing and help them brown evenly.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 663 kcal
Protein: 45 g
Carbohydrates: 16 g
of which sugars: 8.9 g
Fat: 46 g
of which saturates: 11 g
Fiber: 2.7 g
Salt: 6.7 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Srbské rebierko s paprikou a paradajkami