Boiled pork - what is it? Recipe for cooking with a photo at home

Boiled pork - what is it? This is a piece of meat without bone, covered with a delicious crust with spices. This delicacy appeared in Russia as early as the sixteenth century, the original name is “vuzhina”. A dish of pork and lamb was being prepared; in the northern regions of the country, variants from beef were practiced. For the preparation of meat delicacy, a ham, a neck or the back of an animal’s carcass was used.

Name History

“Boiled pork - what is it, and where did such an original name for the dish come from?” - ask our contemporaries. According to one version, the name is rooted in the eastern regions, where Slavic peoples lived in the upper reaches of the Western Bug River. The indigenous people were called "Bujans", and smoked or salted pork was a regular dish on their table. Local chefs were so able to cook meat that the rumor about their masterpieces spread far beyond the boundaries of their place of residence, and the dish was given a characteristic name.

The second version says that tasty meat was prepared by smoking or curing (in the Old Slavonic version it sounds like "woody"). As a result of the transformation of the word, the familiar name “boiled pork" has come to our days.

Cooked boiled pork

What is this - boiled pork and what place does it take in cooking, many gourmets want to know. The answer will be simple: this is a wonderful dish that can be served in any form - both hot and cold. Boiled pork is an autonomous appetizer presented in the form of cold cuts. It can be used to make very tasty and original sandwiches, can be used in salads, added to a hodgepodge. With a great desire and culinary imagination, this masterpiece is able to decorate both a festive and everyday table.

The difference between boiled pork and ham, ham or carbonade

All these dishes have an amazing taste that can strike even the most demanding gourmet. But there is still a difference between them. In order to understand the difference, it is necessary to consider each dish separately.

• Boiled pork - what is it? This is a large piece of baked boneless pork. A prerequisite is the presence of fatty layers. If a bone is present, it must be removed. Boiled pork undergoes processing, then settles for some time. This allows the meat to become more juicy and rich in taste.
• Ham. This is a piece of meat from ham or back scapula. Cooking ham from pork, beef, veal, chicken and game is allowed. The difference between ham and boiled pork is the cooking method. Ham is prepared by the method of boiling, smoking, cooking with smoking and smoking with baking.
• Carbonade. This is a meat dish that should contain a minimal amount of fat. For its preparation, a tenderloin from the back of the carcass of an animal is suitable, which is distinguished by the absence of a fat layer (in the carbonate it should be no more than five millimeters). Prepared using steam or dry quenching.
  

Shelf life of the dish

Cooked boiled pork in the oven, a photo of which can be viewed in the article, has its own shelf life. The product is stored in the refrigerator for no more than five days. If you wish, boiled pork can be frozen in a dry freezer. Thus, its shelf life can be increased up to three months. If you have to buy a finished product, you must use the following tips:

• vacuum-packed pork is stored for up to three weeks;
• Before buying, you must carefully read the date information on the package (pay attention to the manufacturer's address, product composition, production methods, etc.);
• boiled pork in a food film is stored no more than five days;
• high-quality meat will have a pink or light gray color;
• boiled pork should have a round or oval shape;
• the presence of a green tint indicates spoilage of boiled pork;
• there should be no bones, streaks or any damage on the cut of the product;
• the layers of bacon should be white, the presence of a yellow hue indicates that the boiled pork was prepared from old meat;
• the composition of a quality product should exclusively include meat and spices without impurities of artificial additives.

Beneficial features

In the baked in the oven home-made boiled pork there is a mass of useful substances. It can be prepared from different types of meat, the benefits of which are proposed to be considered below:

• Pork. It contains zinc, magnesium, selenium, lysine, vitamin B ₁₂ . Minerals such as zinc and magnesium are actively involved in blood circulation, and also enhance male potency. Lysine helps form and strengthen bones. Vitamin B ₁₂ , selenium and acids have a beneficial effect on hormones and the nervous system. A person ceases to suffer from insomnia, his mood improves. Constant (but moderate) consumption of pork boiled pork will have a positive effect on health.
• Beef. It includes vitamins of group B, as well as A, C and E. A piece of beef pork also contains zinc, iodine, copper, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and sodium. It is recommended for children and the elderly, suffering from hypertension and diabetes mellitus, as well as to persons with a violation of the digestive system.
• Chicken or turkey. They contain a lot of useful elements, but the main thing is the presence of pure protein. Such boiled pork does not contain fat and is dietary, which helps to maintain normal weight.
  

Harmful properties

Baked boiled pork at home in the oven can cause a lot of harm to the human body. First of all, we are talking about a pork product, which is high in calories and can provoke obesity (in no case can not be abused). Individual intolerance to some components may cause allergies. Fatty layers will negatively affect people who suffer from pancreatitis. A large amount of cholesterol will cause problems of the cardiovascular system.

Not so safe and beef pork. Purine compounds can precipitate in the form of uric acid and provoke the development of gout, osteochondrosis, etc. It is also worth paying special attention to the composition (if ready-made boiled pork is bought), since unscrupulous manufacturers often add harmful additives to the delicacy, which can cause serious complications.

Marinades, seasonings and spices

Not a single recipe on how to cook boiled pork at home can do without spices. The most popular and common are black and red peppers, garlic, mustard and thyme. You can also use:

• ginger;
• Bay leaf;
• paprika;
• mayonnaise;
• marjoram;
• curry;
• nutmeg;
• cloves;
• horseradish.

Even with the strongest love of spices, it is not recommended to abuse them. Too spicy marinade will not allow the meat to demonstrate its true taste. It is enough to choose a few spices to add a spicy touch to the dish, and the search in this case will only interfere with enjoying the true taste of the culinary masterpiece.

Cooking Tips

During the preparation of pork pork according to the recipe, you must adhere to some rules. This will help optimize the work and make the taste unusually refined.

1. The oven temperature should not be lower than 220 degrees.
2. On average, one kilogram of meat requires one hour of cooking.
3. For baking meat, it is recommended to purchase special non-stick cookware. A regular baking sheet is also suitable.
4. Meat can be cooked in foil or in a baking sleeve.
5. If boiled pork is made from beef or veal, it is worth it to overlay with slices of bacon.
6. To make beef or veal juicier, it is recommended to make small cuts and put lard in them.
7. If the meat is excessively stiff or thick, you can use a saline syringe that needs to be chopped off the surface.
8. To get juicy meat, you need to dip a piece in boiling water for a few seconds. Due to this action, proteins will curl up and meat juices will be preserved.

Classical boiled pork

To prepare a dish according to this recipe, you will need approximately 1.5 kilograms of meat, 350 grams of fat, a little garlic, carrots, black pepper and salt. The classic recipe for pork pork is as follows.

1. Make small cuts on the surface of the meat.
2. Cut the garlic and carrot into rectangles.
3. Put vegetables in the cuts on the meat.
4. Grate a piece of meat with salt and pepper.
5. Lard cut into small pieces (two millimeters).
6. Put the future boiled pork in the baking sleeve.
7. On top of the meat put slices of bacon (half).
8. Turn the meat along with the sleeve so that the fat is at the bottom.
9. Coat the second surface of the meat with bacon.
10. Bake boiled pork for three hours at a temperature of one hundred and sixty degrees.
    

Tasty boiled pork in foil

For this recipe you will need a kilogram of pork, a large head of garlic, two teaspoons of prepared mustard, black and red pepper, thyme, salt. The recipe for pork pork in foil is as follows:

1. Rinse the meat with water and dry thoroughly with a towel.
2. Chop the garlic into slices.
3. Combine the spices and mix.
4. Bread garlic in spices.
5. Add salt in spices with garlic at the rate of: for one kilogram of meat - one teaspoon of salt.
6. Make punctures on the surface of the meat.
7. Insert the garlic with spices into the puncture holes.
8. Grate the meat with the remaining spices.
9. Coat the meat with mustard.
10. Put the piece in the refrigerator for 12 hours (putting it in the pan and covering it).
11. Remove the meat from the refrigerator, leave for one hour at room temperature.
12. Transfer meat to a piece of foil and tightly wrap so that there are no holes.
13. Transfer the pork boiled pork in foil onto a baking sheet and place in a cold oven.
14. Ten minutes later, a small fire to increase to one hundred eighty degrees.
15. Bake an hour and a half.
16. Then lower the temperature to one hundred and sixty degrees and leave for fifteen minutes.
17. Turn off the oven and let the meat cool.
18. After one and a half to two hours, get the pork, free it from the foil and put in the refrigerator overnight.
19. You get a cold appetizer served with horseradish.

Foil meat with carrots

To cook meat according to this recipe you will need a kilogram of pork, two small carrots, a small head of garlic, seasoning for barbecue and salt. A step-by-step recipe for boiled pork in foil is as follows:

1. Cut carrots and garlic into slices.
2. Rinse the meat and wipe dry with a towel.
3. Make cuts on the meat.
4. Alternately, stuff a piece of meat with carrots and garlic, after dipping them in salt.
5. Salt pork and sprinkle with barbecue seasoning.
6. Wrap the meat in foil so that there are no holes.
7. Preheat the oven to one hundred and eighty degrees.
8. Pour water on a baking sheet so that the foil does not burn.
9. Put the boiled pork baked for two hours.

The easiest way to cook boiled pork

To make pork pork in the oven in a foil, you will need a piece of meat weighing one kilogram, three cloves of garlic, half a teaspoon of black pepper, eight peas of black pepper and peas and a teaspoon of salt. The step-by-step instruction looks like this:

1. Rinse the meat and wipe dry with a towel.
2. Chop the garlic into long slices.
3. Make incisions on the entire surface of the meat piece.
4. In each of the incisions, put a piece of garlic and peppercorns.
5. Coat the whole piece with salt and ground pepper.
6. Put the meat in foil, tightly wrap it.
7. Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees.
8. Put the meat in a preheated oven and bake for two hours.
   

Tender boiled pork

This is a very juicy and tender boiled pork. The recipe for this marinade can be used for cooking meat on the barbecue or in the oven. You need to stock up on ingredients such as pork tenderloin (500 grams), salt, spices for grilling, rosemary, thyme, basil (you can choose spices to taste) and olive oil. A step-by-step recipe for boiled pork is as follows:

1. Wash a piece of meat and wipe it dry with a towel.
2. Grate it with spices for grilling and salt.
3. Put the meat in a bowl, pour olive oil.
4. Make a few punctures over the entire surface of the pork.
5. Leave the pork to marinate for a day (or so).
6. Turn the meat over and over and pierce it with a fork.
7. Tie fresh rosemary, thyme, basil leaves to the meat with a thread.
8. Tightly wrap a piece in several layers of foil.
9. Put the bake in a preheated oven to two hundred degrees.
10. After forty minutes, unfold the foil.
11. Put an open piece of meat to bake for another twenty minutes to give it a delicious crust.
12. Allow the boiled pork to cool, remove leaves or twigs from it.
    

Any sauce can be served with cooked boiled pork. As a side dish, you can use potatoes or any kind of cereals, it is not recommended to forget about vegetables. Of alcoholic drinks, red wine is most suitable. Please your household, they will be delighted. Enjoy your meal!