The quality of the sausage, which is currently sold in stores, leaves much to be desired. However, sometimes you really want to eat a sandwich with fragrant ham in the morning. Do not deny yourself the pleasure. Even children can safely enjoy delicious ham if you make it yourself. Well no, you say. Ham at home is completely impossible. Do not worry, there is absolutely nothing complicated. Chicken ham at home is prepared quite simply, and how delicious it is! There are dozens of recipes, following which you will get an excellent sausage without harmful additives and flavorings.
What is required for work
It is not necessary to be a professional chef or have expensive equipment at home. Even bowel filling devices are not required. Chicken ham at home is made using the simplest tools. So, you will need a kitchen scale, cutting board and knives, kitchen towels, a baking bowl and sleeve, a deep pan with a lid, a spatula and a plastic container. Today we will consider several recipes, but this basic set will be needed for each of them.
Getting down to cooking
Chicken ham at home is cooked so quickly and simply that if you try this dish once, you definitely won’t refuse it. You will need to defrost the chicken (the average carcass weighs about one and a half kilograms per serving). Rinse it thoroughly and remove any existing hemp and feathers. If the liver, lung and heart remain inside, then they also need to be removed. Now we wash the carcass from the inside, and then dry it with paper towels. Finished chicken goes to a cutting board. Now you need to prepare from it a mixture for future ham.
Cutting Rules
Chicken ham at home is made of their pure pulp, without the addition of soy and cereals, thickeners and stabilizers. Now we need to divide the carcass into parts and remove all meat from each of them. It must be cut into small pieces, up to 1 cm in size. The skin, bones, neck and back can be useful for preparing the broth, so put them in a bag and put them in the freezer. Slices of fat can also be stored, but they do not go into ham.
Spices for better taste.
What makes the sausage so tasty? Of course, because of the professional set of spices, the secret of which is available only to technologists at large enterprises. However, today it is no secret that most of these supplements are not at all useful for the body, so it will be much better to do with natural flavors.
So, from one chicken we got about 800 g of pure pulp. Now you need to season it with salt. Here, each mistress has her own calculations. As a basis, you can take 0.5 teaspoon. In addition, sprinkle the meat with black pepper, add 2-3 cloves of garlic, previously passed through the garlic press. At this stage, you can add green peas, chopped carrots, red pepper, as well as any seasonings if desired. Mix well and leave for 15 minutes to marinate the chicken.
Ham formation
Chicken ham recipe at home involves cooking in an artificial shell. To do this, pickled meat must be sprinkled with gelatin and mix thoroughly again. Now you face an important task - to form a tight roll. To do this, you need to choose a shell. This can be a baking film or a plastic bag. The roll must be folded very tight so that there is no air left in it. If you use a thin film of food, then you need to make several layers. To avoid a breakthrough or puncture, the future ham must be tightened in one layer of aluminum foil. For reliability, wrap the roll very well with thread. Why such attention is given to tightness? Because if water leaks to the meat, it will wash the precious juice, and the ham will suffer greatly.
Heat treatment
As you can see, cooking ham from chicken at home is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first glance. The formed roll should be lowered into a deep, wide pan and pour water so that it covers it by about 4-5 fingers. After boiling, reduce the fire to a minimum. A very important point: the roll should lie flat on the bottom, without excesses. Therefore, the dishes should be of suitable diameter.
Cooking ham will take about an hour and a half, under a covered lid. After this, drain the water and let it cool completely to room temperature. After that, without opening the bag, transfer the roll into a plastic container and leave it on the shelf of the refrigerator overnight.
Tasting
Cooking ham from chicken at home is almost done. Thin slices are cut with a sharp knife, spread on a flat dish and decorated with greens, mayonnaise and ketchup. You can immediately make delicious sandwiches, adding to them fresh cucumber or mustard. They will have great pleasure in eating children. If you wish, you can add this ham to salads.
Practical recommendations
If desired, you can reduce the calorie content of this dish using only chicken breasts. But in this case, the ham is too dry. It is recommended that you add butter or a few raw chicken legs to such meat. In this recipe, we considered adding a minimum amount of spices, but you can change everything as you wish. Provencal or Italian herbs, spices that are used for meat dishes, turmeric, all this can with great success find their application in this dish.
In addition, many housewives use fresh bell peppers and carrots, sliced in long strips, canned peas and corn, boiled eggs, fried mushrooms and olives, gherkins and nuts, as well as a variety of greens. With such additives, chicken ham at home (the photo we will give in our article) becomes even more vibrant and festive.
Ham in box
Do you want your table to have a real square ham stick, elegant and unbelievably delicious? Then the following recipe is especially for you. Since we can already cook ham from chicken at home, it remains only to work on the details. You will need the same amount of meat, dry rosemary and a bag of milk or yogurt inside with foil. An empty juice bag is perfect too.
However, we recommend changing the recipe a bit. We cut the chicken breast into small pieces, and chop the rest of the meat with a meat grinder or a blender into minced meat. Mix everything thoroughly, sprinkle with seasonings and ram tightly into the prepared box, cover with a film or foil from above. Now you need to find a deep pan, and put an inverted saucer at the bottom. We install the box in it so that the water reaches the place where the stuffing ends. Now bring to a boil and cook for an hour and a half.
Ham in the package
This is another option for making homemade goodies that you might like. In this case, we offer you to take ham, of your choice, that is, a special silicone mold in the form of a cylinder with holes at the edges and special plugs. It is ideal for making a loaf of the usual shape.
If you don’t have such an appliance, then don’t worry, it’s no worse than cooking chicken ham at home in a bag. To do this, pick up a tin can of tomato paste or other canned food and cut both bottoms from it. Pass the baking bag into it. Best of all, make it double, otherwise there is a risk that during the cooking process it will be damaged and water will get inside. And then everything is still the same recipe. We stuff the sleeve with minced meat, fix on both ends and cook in a pan with water.
Cooking in the oven
And for this recipe you will need a metal mold. Chicken ham at home in the oven is no worse than a supermarket delicacy. For a shape measuring 13 by 24 centimeters, you will need 600 g of chicken breast and 300 g of thighs. Grind the fillet in a blender, and cut the hips into slices. Add 2 tablespoons of milk powder, 1 egg and a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce, salt and your favorite seasonings.
Now cover the baking dish with foil, and on top with baking paper. Tamp the minced meat carefully and cover it with free ends. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the ham for about 40 minutes. After that, wait until it cools completely.
Miracle from the bottle
As you can see, there are more than enough options for making a delicious snack. But we will not stop there. We are next in line for the next amazing dish - chicken ham at home in a bottle. The composition is slightly modified to show you high variability. Each hostess can redraw it to his own taste, and each time a new dish will be obtained.
You will need: two legs, 300 g chicken liver and 250 g hearts, as well as spices. The legs should be placed in water and boiled for 50 minutes. Do not pour the broth, it will still be useful to us. Separately, boil the hearts and liver for 40 minutes in a saucepan. After cooling, cut them and legs into small pieces. Now pour about a half of the chicken soup broth into a separate container and add 5 g of gelatin to it. Heat the solution in a water bath so that the gelatin is dispersed. Salt the meat, add spices and pour the resulting broth. Take a pre-prepared plastic bottle that has had its neck cut off. Pour the mixture obtained from it and cover with a lid on top, which will fit in diameter. Place a weight, such as a jar of water, on top. She will press the meat part down, she will not emerge, and the ham will turn out denser. Now put the delicacy overnight in the refrigerator, after which it will be possible to cut it into portions.
Instead of a conclusion
As you can see, there are a lot of ways to cook homemade ham. Each of them can become your signature recipe. Try to cook such a sausage with your home. We are sure that they will no longer want to look at the store delicacies. In addition, the abundance of variations will allow you to find the most delicious recipe for your household, given their preferences. By analogy, you can use other meat, such as turkey or pork. And again at the exit you get a new dish.