Picante Pork Chops Crock Pot Recipe (Weight Watchers)

Ingredients:

• 8 (6-ounce) bone-in center-cut loin pork chops
  
  


• Cooking Spray
  
  


• 1 (16 ounce) jar thick and chunky picante sauce
  
  


• 8 cups hot cooked saffron yellow rice mix cooked without salt and fat

Directions:

1. Trim fat from chops; coat chops with cooking spray. Place a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
   
   


2. Add 4 chops and cook 3 minutes on each side or until browned. Remove chops from skillet; set aside. Repeat with remaining 4 chops.
   
   


3. Pour 1/4 of picante sauce into a 4-quart electric slow cooker coated with cooking spray; arrange chops over sauce. Pour remaining picante sauce over chops.
   
   


4. Cover and cook for 1 hour on high heat setting.
   
   


5. Reduce to low heat setting and cook 5 to 7 hours.
   
   


6. Remove chops from slow cooker, reserving 1 cup of picante sauce mixture from cooker. Discard remaining picante sauce.
   
   


7. Serve chops over rice; top each served with reserved picante sauce.

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Country Steak with Gravy Recipe (Weight Watchers)

As I've said a thousand times before (I'm a broken record), my family (well, the children only begrudingly) decided to eat healthier in 2009.

And since my husband orders country fried steak EVERY-SINGLE-TIME we go to Cracker Barrel, I was thrilled when I found this (much healthier) weight watchers recipe in In Good Time: 123 Slow Cooker Recipes to Come Home To.

After all there's nothing I love more than my slow cooker and good recipes!

COUNTRY STEAK WITH GRAVY (4 POINTS)

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 1/2 pounds boneless top round steak (1/2 inch thick)
  


• 1 (12 ounce) jar fat-free savory beef gravy
  


• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  


• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  


• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  


• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  


• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  
  
• Cooking spray

DIRECTIONS:

1. Trim fat from steak; cut steak into 6 equal pieces.
   
   
2. Combine gravy and next 5 ingredients in a small bowl. Stir well.
   
   
3. Layer gravyt mixture and steak in a 4-quart electric slow cooker coated with cooking spray, beginning and ending with gravy mixture.
   
   
4. Cover with lid; cook on high heat-setting for 1 hour.
   
   
5. Reduce to low-heat setting, and cook 6 to 7 hours or until steak is tender.

Yields 6 Servings (serving size: 3 ounces steak, 1/3 cup gravy)

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This Recipe Listed At:

• The Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
  
  
• Food on Fridays
  

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