Celebrating the New Year is the ideal time to surprise your household and friends with delicious and aromatic dishes. Every housewife knows that the New Year's feast is not complete without meat "cuts"! To make the table full and the guests happy, it is worth making pork pork. It will be a great addition to any New Year's menu!
Pork pork can be cooked in a variety of ways. It can be dry salted, marinated in mustard, mayonnaise, or marinade. The last option is quite laborious, but perhaps the most delicious. The meat is tender and soft.
An important point in the preparation of boiled pork is the purchase of the “right” meat.
It is better to buy it not in a store, but in the market. So you are guaranteed to buy a fresher product that has not been frozen and thawed before. When buying, ask the seller to give you a small piece of skin and burn it with a lighter. If there is no specific smell, then you are offered regular pork, not boar meat. You can safely buy it!
A ham is suitable for cooking boiled pork. You can also use meat from the cervical region. You can cook in one large piece or in smaller pieces. The selected meat must have a small layer of fat. Thanks to him, the boiled pork will turn out to be more juicy and soft.
Ingredients:
- pork - 500-600 g;
- water - 800 ml;
- table salt - 3 tbsp. l .;
- ground black pepper - 1 tsp. or to taste;
- bay leaf - 3-4 pcs.;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves.
Preparation
First you need to prepare a marinade in which the meat will be soaked. To do this, take a small saucepan and fill it with the correct amount of clean water. Put water on the stove, bring to a boil. Add table salt, black pepper and bay leaf to the liquid. Cook for 3-4 minutes. Cool the finished marinade to room temperature.
Now you need to peel the garlic and cut it into thin petals. Cut a whole piece of pork from all sides. Put garlic cloves in the holes made.
Pour a piece of pork with the cooled marinade. Put in the refrigerator for several hours, covered with cling film. Ideally, let the meat sit overnight. It is best to marinate the pork in advance, and cook shortly before serving. If there is no time to keep the boiled pork in the marinade for a long time, then before baking the meat should be removed from the liquid, rub a little more with table salt and black pepper.
To make the meat salted more evenly, you can use a little trick - take a disposable syringe, fill it with the finished marinade and chop the whole piece, pouring liquid into the meat.
A pickled piece of meat, along with a bay leaf, must be put into a bag or a baking sleeve, sealed, and a couple of punctures must be made on the surface for steam to escape. Place the meat in a bag in a mold with a little water poured into the bottom.
To keep the boiled pork juicy, bake it in an oven preheated to 170 degrees for 80-90 minutes. In the process, it is necessary to slightly tilt the baking bag so that the meat is moistened in the released fat. During cooking, the pork will be significantly reduced in size.
When ready, you need to turn off the oven and leave the boiled pork inside. The meat will cool very slowly and become even softer and tastier.
Cut into pieces and the delicious cold cuts for the New Year's table are ready!
