Monotony is boring, I want to try new original dishes more and more sharply. You can add pork cheeks to the familiar menu. This product is perfect for both a regular dinner and a festive table. Pork cheeks go well with fresh vegetables and various sauces. Consider the options for their preparation.
Baked pork cheeks. Cooking
If you bake pork cheeks in the oven, you will get a satisfying, mouth-watering dish with a unique and refined taste. It takes time to cook them, but the result is worth it. You can enjoy the tender cheeks.
Necessary ingredients for cooking:
- pork cheek - kilogram;
- ground pepper, salt, paprika, ground coriander - one tsp each;
- garlic - five cloves.
For broth:
- carrots and onions - one each;
- Bay leaf;
- salt - ½ tablespoon.
Before cooking, you must prepare the components. Rinse the cheek under cold water and peel the skin using a knife. To give a beautiful look to the product, it is wrapped in a roll and tied with a dense thread. Next, peel the onions and garlic. If the onion is large - cut into two parts, if small, then do not. Garlic is cut into large sticks.
In the pan, put the previously prepared cheek and pour water so that it completely disappears. Bring to a boil, add salt to taste. On a small fire, the component languishes for about an hour so that it can be pierced freely with a bamboo stick.
Half an hour before the end of cooking add bay leaf, onions and carrots. Then put the cheeks in a colander to eliminate excess fluid. Remove the thread and season with spices. Knives are made into the recesses into which garlic is added. Then wrap the roll again and tie it with a thread.
The only cheek left to bake in the oven. The form is lubricated, roll is placed in it and put in the oven two hundred degrees to a golden crust.
French Recipe
Pork cheeks are an affordable product with very tender meat. From them you can prepare original delicious dishes. Cheeks are not so expensive, so the delicacy is economical.
You will need:
- a kilogram of cheeks;
- 300 ml of broth;
- ½ liter of wine;
- 100 g of tomato sauce;
- carrots, garlic, celery stalk, onions - one each.
Spices (to taste):
- pepper;
- lemon peel;
- sage;
- parsley;
- Bay leaf;
- cloves;
- chilli.
Rinse the cheeks, remove the skin and subcutaneous fat, then cut into large pieces. After that, the marinade is prepared. All vegetables need to be cut into large pieces, pour wine and add spices. Pass the garlic through a garlic squeezer. The resulting marinade requires pouring pork cheeks and refrigerating overnight.
After the specified time, dry the meat and vegetables. Fry all the ingredients in a pan separately, drain the excess fat. Then put everything in a deep frying pan together and pour in the broth, marinade and tomato sauce, put on low heat. Simmer for at least two hours.
The dish is aromatic and very tender.
Apple and Cabbage Recipe
Another recipe for how to cook cheek, but with other additional ingredients.
Components:
- pork cheeks - ½ kg;
- sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. l .;
- welding - 2 tbsp. l .;
- four apples .;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- marjoram, oregano - 1 branch;
- cabbage - 300 g;
- bell pepper - 200 g;
- salt - to taste.
Cleanse the cheeks and cook for 15 minutes. Brew tea, marinate meat in tea leaves for an hour. After that, cut into circles about three centimeters and fry in a pan with oil for two minutes on each side.
Chop cabbage. Cut apples and peppers into slices. Put chopped ingredients in a pot, add oregano, marjoram, a little water. Then put in the oven and bake at one hundred and seventy degrees for 20 minutes.
How to smoke?
What do you need to make smoked pork cheeks? Very few components will be required. Among them are:
- pork cheeks;
- 12% saline solution.
The product must be soaked in saline and allowed to stand for six days. After this, the cheeks are dried and smoked for half an hour by smoke at high temperature, then they must immediately be put in boiling water for an hour and a half.
From pork cheek, you can cook dishes with original taste notes that will be appreciated by your loved ones. They taste amazing. In addition, the cheeks have a lower cost, but are prepared for a long time.
Despite all the advantages of cheeks, this is a well-known, but not very popular product.