Perhaps, baked meat can be safely attributed to one of the most popular hot dishes of any festive table. Such a treat will always be accepted with a bang. Well, who will refuse a juicy and fragrant piece? It is also nice that the dish can be consumed not only hot. It will also serve as an excellent cold appetizer. Sliced home-made boiled pork is an ideal substitute for a familiar store sausage or ham. The dish will not only be delicious, but also guaranteed to be safe for your health. It's no secret that today's manufacturers often sin by adding chemical compounds to their products. And for our health it is very bad.
Today we will share with you different options on how to cook boneless pork ham in a slow cooker or just bake pork deliciously. A few simple recipes and interesting ideas for your home recipes piggy bank.
Boiled pork
At first glance, it may seem that cooking boiled pork is not at all simple. This serious dish is considered a classic of the culinary genre, and only real chefs are given the opportunity to master its preparation. But in fact, not everything is so complicated. Following our recommendations, you can easily cope with the task. And boiled pork or baked pork ham (boneless) will appear on your holiday tables as often as possible. So let's get started.
You will need:
- pork ham (boneless) weighing 2 kg;
- 8-10 cloves of garlic;
- 100 g of fat;
- 1 small carrot;
- 2 tbsp. l horseradish, granular mustard and vegetable oil;
- salt, ground black and allspice, bay leaf;
- culinary twine (any strong thread).
How to cook?
Ideally, the meat should be soaked and marinated in spices, it can take about 5 days, but such a boiled pork will turn out simply incomparable. To use for the marinade you need a pickle with spices and roots, wine or beer, this is a personal choice for everyone. But we will focus on the express method, and the result will be no worse. So we can save a lot of time and, if you have little experience in preparing such dishes, we can significantly ease the work.
The meat must first be thoroughly washed and drained. In a mortar, mash allspice with bay leaves, mix with ground black pepper and salt. With this mixture, grate the meat well on all sides.
We make meat. Fat should be frozen, so it will be easier to work with it. Cut it and garlic with wedges, carrots - with cubes. In pork, puncture with a sharp knife and place vegetables and lard in them alternately. Now you need to give the meat a shape and fix it in this position with twine.
Mix mustard, horseradish and oil in a bowl. With this compound, generously coat the pork and place in a baking dish.
Place the pork ham in a preheated oven to 220 degrees. Lower the temperature to 180 and bake for 1.5-2 hours. Periodically pour boiled pork with juice that has accumulated in the form, so that it does not dry out and find a delicious crust. Check readiness by piercing the meat in its thickest part. If no blood or pinkish liquid appears, the boneless, baked pork ham is ready.
Honey glazed pork
Sometimes you want to try something like that, like in films about the Middle Ages: there the brave warriors ate delicious meat lying in huge pieces on copper dishes, and washed down the whole thing with intoxicating beer or wine. It’s unlikely that we can go off in the old days, but to cook such a dish is quite. Baked ham (pork) on the bone is a great solution. And guests will like it!
You will need:
- 3 kg pork ham with bone;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 1 onion;
- 10 g of ginger;
- celery stalk;
- 1 tbsp. l mustard and honey;
- 100 g of granulated sugar;
- 4 tbsp. l cognac, salt, bay leaf and spices to taste.
How to cook a dish?
You can make pork ham on bone completely differently. Recipes can be changed to suit your taste or complement your favorite spices. But the basis of cooking will be clear to you already from this method.
Wash the ham and place in a large saucepan. Add salt, bay leaf, celery stalk and spices as you wish. Boil the meat for 2.5 hours. Then drain the broth (it can be used to prepare other dishes) and cool the pork.
From the ham, cut the skin and a little fat, it should remain about 1-2 cm thick. Put on a notch with a knife in the form of a net, stuff the meat with slices of ginger and garlic, coat the ham with mustard. Place it on a baking sheet.
Combine cognac, sugar and honey and heat until sugar is completely dissolved. Pour the ham with this glaze and send to bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour.
Cooking boiled pork in a slow cooker
You can cook a delicious pork ham in a slow cooker (without bone). If such utensils are available in your kitchen, feel free to use them. A slow cooker will reduce cooking time, save you from the heat of a red-hot oven, and the meat will turn out incredibly tasty and juicy.
You will need:
- 1 kg of pork ham (flesh);
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- any spices for pork, bay leaf, salt and pepper;
- culinary thread and foil.
Cooking a delicious dish.
Often there is debate about whether it is possible to cook boiled pork in a slow cooker: for some, the meat is boiled, while for others it is too dry. We use a little trick in cooking - we wrap the meat in foil and we will cook it in this form. So the pork will be evenly baked in its own juice and saturated with all the aromas and tastes.
Discard the meat a little to make it more tender, and shape the formation. Generously rub it with spices, salt and finely chopped garlic on both sides. If you take a regular pulp without fat, slightly stuff it with fat, so the meat will turn out more juicy.
Fold the pork tight roll, giving the most rounded shape, and tie with twine. Wrap with foil, avoiding breaks (juice should not leak).
Pour half a glass of water into the multicooker bowl and lay the prepared roll. Cook in the "Extinguishing" mode for 2 hours. After boiled pork, you need to cool without removing it from the foil.
To summarize
Here are just a few recipes for making a delicious meal. This will always be welcome guests and your household, and especially men. The meat turns out to be very tasty, and hardly anyone will have a desire to deny themselves such a treat. It is also nice that this meat contains a lot of healthy protein (20%), fats (about 30%), but at the same time - only 277 kcal (yes, that’s exactly its calorie content). Pork (boneless ham) is considered a delicacy, and it is she who is preferred when it comes to baking or frying meat. We hope that our tips will be useful to you, and you will certainly try to cook home-made boiled pork in your kitchen. Believe me, this is not so difficult. Good appetite!