Roasting is perhaps one of the most ancient ways of cooking. Of course, our distant ancestors used open fire or baked food in hot ash, and today we use modern ovens, but the result is almost the same - a soft, juicy dish without excess fat and a carcinogenic crust.
For modern culinary specialists, baking is also attractive because it does not require constant process control. He prepared the food, put it in the oven, turned on the timer - and he was free, the dish would cook itself.
One way to bake is to cook foods in foil. Thus, you can cook meat, vegetables, fish, chicken. The secret to success is in the proper preparation of the product and in the ability to wrap it in foil.
It would seem that here is complicated? In fact, the taste of the baked product depends on how tight the bag was, so it is very important to properly form the joints so that all the juice remains inside and does not spread on the baking sheet and does not burn.
It is important to choose the appropriate type of foil, it should not be too thin, as it is easily torn and sticks to products. Therefore, if the farm has only foil with a thickness of 8-9 microns, then it should be folded in half before wrapping the products. By the way, you need to put the product for baking on its shiny side, and not on the matte side, so the dish will cook faster.
So how to cook meat in foil? First of all, it’s worthwhile to understand that pork is best for baking a piece. When using beef, the result may be disappointing. But if you plan to bake thin slices (such as chop), then you can use young beef.
For example, delicious meat, baked in foil, can be prepared from pork neck, which is sold in pieces resembling a loaf of bread. The recipe by which we will cook pork baked in foil is very simple. In addition to the actual foil and meat, we need garlic and spices to taste the hostess.
First you need to peel the garlic and cut it into fairly large pieces. Now we will make punctures in a piece of meat with a knife, and insert pieces of garlic into them. Thus, we stuff the meat with garlic.
We mix the salt and spices that we plan to use, and we rub the meat with the resulting aromatic mixture. No need to regret spices, because a piece of pork is quite large, and we need it to evenly incorporate salt and aromas of spices. The meat grated with spices must be wrapped in cling film and kept in the refrigerator for several hours, you can leave the pork to marinate overnight.
Then the prepared meat must be wrapped in foil, carefully, several times, bending the seams, so that the bag is airtight. By this time, the oven should be preheated to 220 degrees, put a baking sheet with our meat. After about an hour, we lower the heating to a temperature of 160 degrees and leave the meat in the oven for another one and a half to two hours (time depends on the weight of a piece of pork).
At the end of the baking time, you can open the foil on top of the piece and brown the meat slightly under the grill. When deploying, you need to be very careful, otherwise you can get a burn.
Our meat, baked in foil, is ready! It can be served as a hot dish, cut into portions and offered a side dish of fresh vegetables. And after cooling, the meat baked in foil can be used as a cold snack or for making sandwiches.
You can bake in foil not only large pieces of meat, but also portioned or even smaller pieces. In this case, you can cook the meat in a foil with vegetables. That is, both meat and side dishes will be cooked simultaneously in their own juice. To prepare this dish, a piece of meat, beaten and grated with spices, is laid out on a piece of foil of a suitable size, and chopped vegetables are placed on top of it. You can use onions, carrots, tomatoes, bell peppers, cabbage. Boiled and cut mushrooms can be added to vegetables. They must not forget to salt. For juiciness and to give a special taste, our dish can be poured with sour cream or a mixture of sour cream with mayonnaise. Wrap our semi-finished product in foil and bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes, then open our "envelopes" so that juice does not leak, sprinkle with grated cheese on top and put in the oven for another 10 minutes. Done! Enjoy your meal!