It's no secret that the most delicious and wholesome food is homemade. In addition, eating freshly prepared food prepared with your own hands, you can not be afraid - it does not have any preservatives and even more so GMOs, and it is worth a lot. However, there are skeptics who together will argue that it’s useless, they say, to spend precious time, standing at the stove, if you can buy ready-made food, literally everything that you want.
Indeed, shop windows are bursting with all sorts of things, looking at which saliva flows and there is an irresistible desire to immediately purchase products that look delicious on the shelves, and a lot of time will be saved. The only questions are, from when did all this food lie, how fresh and high-quality products were used to prepare it, is the technology matured, how many of these beautifully looking dishes are crammed to give them a presentation?
No matter what the people who are accustomed to eating in haste say, just do not compare in any way with the products from the market with homemade dishes! Many housewives, and often the owners, think and do things differently: they are used, even if not every day, at least on holidays, to indulge their households with culinary delights.
One of the most popular dishes is boiled pork in the oven, which is prepared both for the holidays and for every day. And the paramount task in this case is the purchase of suitable meat, and it must be bought with a whole piece, not have veins, and it would be nice with a small layer of fat. It is also necessary to take into account the location of the fibers: for ease of shearing and subsequent cutting, they must be longitudinal. Well, and, of course, first of all, meat from young pork must be chosen absolutely fresh, soft pink: no frost-defrosting in any case!
Recipe “Boiled pork in the oven”
Ingredients:
- a piece of pork weighing 2.5 to 3 kg, preferably the back or neck;
- onions - 300 g;
- garlic - 2-3 heads;
- carrots - 300 g;
- mustard - 50-70 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 g;
- pepper - 6-8 g;
- salt - 100-120 g;
- bay leaf (chopped);
- lemon juice.
"Boiled pork in the oven." Cooking
- Grate garlic, onions, add lemon juice, chopped bay leaf, black pepper and salt.
- A piece of prepared meat is blotted with a paper towel, punctures are made deep enough with a sharp knife, slices of carrots and garlic (cut into long sticks with pointed edges) are inserted into the resulting “pockets” and rubbed with the resulting mixture.
- Leave the meat for 12-24 hours in a cool place or refrigerator to marinate it.
- Before you send the meat to the oven, it is greased with mustard and mayonnaise.
- Bake in the oven at temperatures from 160º to 180º for two to three hours. At the same time, during baking, it is necessary to turn the meat over every half hour and pour it over the allocated juice.
- Half an hour before being prepared, carefully scrape onions, garlic and other ingredients from the surface of a piece of meat without affecting the fat, and continue to bake until the baked pork in the oven is lightly browned, approximately 30 minutes.
- This truly divine dish is served, both cold and hot. Only if it is tasted hot, is it possible not to try it when it is cold, since there simply will be nothing left. Properly stuffed meat, in addition to its delicious aroma, looks attractive on the cut.
Experienced chefs recommend putting birch or alder twigs under the piece before putting the meat in the goose bowl or in a special roasting pan, in addition to draining the juice, the meat will not burn, and a unique smell is obtained that cannot be achieved in any other way. Some use cabbage leaves instead of twigs, which they then throw away or resort to other tricks.
Boiled pork in the foil in the oven is even easier to prepare, the meat is also rubbed, pickled, only in addition they are carefully wrapped in several layers of foil so that the juice does not leak out, and since it does not leak, you do not need to water the meat and turn it over. After cooking, the meat is put under oppression, and after cooling, cut and served.
Boiled pork in the oven is cooked according to various recipes, many spices are used (for an amateur), in addition to an unforgettable taste, the cooked dish is more economical than ready-made delicacies in terms of cost. Well, and that is absolutely indisputable, any dish turns out to be of unsurpassed taste when it is prepared with a soul, and even more so like boiled pork! And nothing remains, as soon as I wish you bon appetit!