There are probably no more beloved dishes in Russia than meat dishes. Men especially adore them, because they get from eating meat in any form not only a feeling of satiety, but also a lot of benefits, including the energy so necessary for work. Therefore, very often in front of our mistresses on the kitchen table appears pork ham. "What to cook?" - the question immediately arises. There are many answers, but we will try to understand them a little now. Today we’ll be cooking large pieces of ham.
general information
When it comes to a large piece of pork meat, one of the options for its preparation immediately comes to mind - making boiled pork. This is the fastest and easiest way to bake pork ham. What to cook from such a large piece of meat yet? Options, of course, are available - to soot, salt, turn into ham. But the easiest way is ours. And it will not be a shame to serve on the festive table, and even so, for every day, it’s useful. One condition is not to overdry the meat, that is, you need to monitor it and prevent the evaporation of priceless juice.
If you’re undercooking, there’s also nothing good, so many housewives check the readiness with a long thick needle for piercing meat or with a special thermometer. There is a second option to cook boiled pork - cook. In this case, the ham is cooked in a pot with roots and spices, tied with a rope.
How to cook boiled pork
If the question is what to cook from pork ham, the answer is boiled pork, then we suggest doing it according to our recipe. One tip: start cooking five hours before serving.
So, we need : a piece of ham with skin - 2.5-3 kg, garlic - one big head, caraway seeds, bay leaf - one, black pepper, peas, large salt.
Step by step recipe :
- The ham is scraped, if there is such a need, then it is well washed and dried. With a thin, sharp knife, cut off part of the subcutaneous fat and skin, freeze a little and cut into long sticks.
- Peel the garlic. You can cut it into cubes or in half lengthwise - in case the cloves are large.
- We make punctures in the meat two or three centimeters deep. We turn, without taking out, the knife 90 degrees and put a clove of garlic and a piece of fat into the hole.
- In a mortar, we turn the bay leaf, pepper, salt and caraway seeds into powder, after which we rub the meat on all sides with this composition.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put a baking sheet in it with our boiled pork. Every 15-20 minutes, pour it with fat, which is heated. In case of burning meat from above, cover it with foil.
- If you pierce the dish with a needle and a completely clear liquid is released, not pink, the boiled pork is ready. Let stand under the foil for about 20 minutes before serving.
It was the easiest recipe for making pork ham.
Homemade pork ham in the oven. Recipe
The preparation of this dish is mandatory for most people will be associated with the onset of a home holiday. Everyone knows such a recipe, but every housewife always has a few secrets of her own, developed by time. Now we’ll show you how to bake a ham in your sleeve.
To do this, we need the following products : one and a half kilogram piece of ham, a head of garlic, a bay leaf, pepper, spices and salt to taste.
In order to cook pork ham in the oven according to this recipe, it is first of all necessary to completely remove the skin from it with a knife. Now we will marinate the meat, coated with pepper, salt and squeezed garlic. For a mixture of garlic and spices, make cuts, then sew them with thread and leave for about 60 minutes. After marinating, we place the meat in a special sleeve designed for baking. We put it in the oven and hold it there for an hour and a half. We cut the sleeve and fry the ham for 10 minutes in a skillet. As soon as a golden crust forms, the dish is ready. You can serve it on the table, after cutting it. A side dish of stewed cabbage or potatoes is suitable.
Bake the ham in the dough
Before us is another ham pork. What to cook from it?
We bake in the dough, for which we will need : a three-kilogram ham, 100 grams of salt, one head of garlic, half a kilogram of flour, the same amount of rye bread, bay leaf, cloves, pepper.
Grind and mix cloves, salt and pepper in any way, rub ham with this mixture. We make cuts with a knife and pour the mixture into them. We put the load on the meat and pickle for three hours. Then we wash and wait until it dries. In the meantime, mix the flour with bread soaked in water, do it very carefully until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Wrap the ham in parchment.
We spread part of the dough at the bottom of the dishes, put the meat on it, cover it with the remaining dough on top so that the ham is not visible. We put the dishes with the dish in a preheated oven up to 200 degrees and bake it there for three hours. Remove the top layer of dough, remove
parchment paper - and you can serve it on the table. Such meat is ideally suited with horseradish and sour cream sauce.
Smoked Ham Recipe
When the hostess is tasked with what to cook from pork ham, it is not necessary to consider only options for baking it. Moreover, it is sold in different forms - it can be either raw or salted. They still need to be soaked before cooking. Okay, let’s tell you in detail how to cook a raw ham. We put the meat in a large pan, it should fit freely, pour cold water to the top and press it with a load. Let eight hours so stand still, it is desirable to change the water two times. Then we put the ham in another pan, although you can leave it in the same one, fill it with cold water again, add pepper, bay leaf, onion, bring to a boil, remove the foam that has appeared and cook on a small fire. Calculation of cooking time - 450 grams - 25 minutes. Periodically check the water level.
To cool, you do not need to get meat, leave in a pan. And then we shift to the form. We turn on the oven, let it warm up to 200 degrees. Meanwhile, we cut the skin from the ham and cut the fat, carefully so that about five millimeters remains. We make lattice cuts on the fat and insert the cloves. Then coat the meat with mustard and sprinkle with brown sugar. Put in the oven and bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes.
Cooking in a slow cooker, ingredients
We have already learned enough how to cook it in the oven. So, let's say you have another pork ham. What to cook from it? And we will bake it in a slow cooker. This method will greatly facilitate the whole process, and the meat will be tender and juicy.
To prepare it, we need the following ingredients : a piece of ham with a weight of one kilogram, one onion, 40 ml of lemon juice, one carrot, two cloves of garlic, bay leaf, to taste - salt and spices.
A few words about cooking in a slow cooker. It is especially suitable for novice housewives, as it simplifies everything. Human participation in the process is minimal, so it is difficult to spoil the dish. The advantage of such a device is that it comes out healthy food, meat - not fried in vegetable oil, and therefore the most useful.
The process of cooking meat in a multicooker
Pork ham in a slow cooker is prepared in the following way. Rinse and dry the pork well. Mix the squeezed garlic and lemon juice, then rub the ham with spices and the resulting marinade. Rub carrots on the largest grater, mix with finely chopped onions, add a bay leaf and lay it all out on the meat.
We twist the ham into a roll and rewind the thread, we try to make it denser. We send to the slow cooker and simmer for two hours, after which we set the baking mode for another 20 minutes. Serve this meat is recommended chilled.
Pork ham: marinating and baking in the oven
At the end of this article, we present for your consideration yet another way how to bake pork ham in the oven. The recipe is done with pickling, as some chefs consider it a guarantee that it will turn out a great dish.
For cooking meat we will need : one kilogram of ham, one boiled carrot, ground black pepper, salt, vegetable oil, ten cloves of garlic.
To prepare the marinade : a tablespoon of honey, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, two tablespoons of European mustard, three onions and salt.
The washed meat is chopped with carrots and garlic, as in the previous recipes, and cut into the entire area. Then be sure to pickle, for which we mix the necessary ingredients and rub the meat on all sides. Cut the onion into rings in a bowl, put a ham on top, close the lid and leave it for 12 hours in a cool place.
Roast and serve pork ham
After pickling, put onion on the foil, then meat, and then completely cover with onion. Wrap tightly in foil, even several layers, and send to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for an hour and a half. 15 minutes before the end of the process, we remove the meat from the foil - let the crust appear.
You can just cut it and deploy it. Pork ham dishes are very tasty, so treating them with guests is a pleasure. It can be served both hot and cold, as a cut or whole, with red wine or with a stronger drink. Enjoy your meal!