Pork belly is a popular product, because it can be cooked in different ways: boil, bake, salt. The main thing is to choose the most suitable recipe and purchase additional ingredients for cooking.
Cooking pork belly in the oven
Cooking time: 3.5 hours.
Calories per 100 g: 390 kcal.
This recipe is considered to be the easiest, since ordinary spices are used to make it.
Ingredients are as follows:
- 1.5 kg of brisket;
- 1 head of garlic;
- 4 leaves of laurel;
- 1 tsp salts;
- 0.5 tsp ground black pepper.
Prepare the dish as follows:
- Rinse the brisket thoroughly under water.
- Garlic peeled, washed, cut into plates.
- In the meat we make cuts in several parts, put garlic and laurel leaves in them.
- Mix the salt and pepper, rub the bacon, leave for half an hour.
- Preheat oven to +180 degrees.
- Breast wrapped foil in 2-3 layers, send for three hours in the oven.
It will just be sliced the meat and serve it to the table. When cooking from the brisket, lard will stand out, which can be collected in a jar and used later in the preparation of porridge and vegetables.
Unusual recipe of cooking in onion peel
Cooking time: 80 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 505 kcal.
Cook it easy enough. Looking for the following ingredients:
- 600 g pork belly;
- 1 l of water;
- 100 g of salt;
- 10 g onion peel;
- 5 pieces. peppercorns;
- 6 cloves of garlic.
First you need to collect onion peel - for this you need to clean about 5-6 bulbs. It is very important to ensure that the husk is not rotted or wet. Collected husk should be rinsed in water to avoid sand and dust, collect in a deep container and fill with water. Mix the contents several times and change the water at least three times.
Next, we shift the husk into the pan, pour it with clean water and put it on the stove. Add salt to the container, spices, mix. It may seem to some housewives that there is too much salt, but pork will absorb as much as she needs. Boil for 10 minutes, put the pork in the pan.
It is important that the liquid completely closes the brisket.
We bring the meat to a boil, we mark 30 minutes - about ten minutes before the end you need to add garlic to the pan. Then remove the pan from the stove, cover it with a towel and leave it until the liquid has cooled. During this time, the onion peel will give the breast a beautiful yellow color.
It remains to get the meat and chop it finely.
An important point: the onion has strong coloring properties, so for cooking it is best to use dark coated dishes.
Juicy and tender pork roll
Cooking time: 90 minutes (+4 hours).
Calories per 100 g: 518 kcal.
Cooked roll according to this recipe will be nourishing and tasty. It can be served with potatoes, vegetables, cut into small but thick slices.
We need:
- 1 kg of brisket;
- 5 tbsp. olive oil;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tsp Provencal herbs;
- 2 onions;
- 0.4 kg of champignons;
- 1 carrot;
- 2 tbsp. breadcrumbs.
First, prepare the meat: rinse it under water, cut it so that an oblong layer is obtained from the meat - it will be more convenient to cook the roll. Then carefully beat off the piece with a wooden hammer.
In a separate container, mix the oil, finely chopped garlic, spices and salt. The resulting mixture, rub a piece of meat, put in a bag or container, leave to marinate for 4 hours in the refrigerator.
Also prepare the filling: wash and peel onions, carrots, mushrooms, cut into small pieces. Put the onions and carrots in the pan to be browned, fry the mushrooms in a separate container - the liquid should completely evaporate from them. After combine all the ingredients, salt, add spices, breadcrumbs.
Take a piece of meat out of the refrigerator, place the stuffing inside and roll it up in the shape of a roll. Secure the ends with a string, send to the oven for an hour, the temperature +180 degrees.
If you do not want the whole kitchen to be spattered with fat stains, you must put the pork in the bag.
How to pickle meat
Preparation time: 60 minutes (+2 days for salting).
Caloric content per 100 g: 520 kcal.
For cooking need such products:
- 1 kg of meat;
- 1 l of water;
- 10 peppercorns;
- 5 sheets of laurel;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 1 chili;
- mustard, coriander and fennel seeds to taste;
- salt to taste
Cooking is simple:
- Prepare the meat: mine, cut it into rectangular pieces of 6 * 6 cm in size. We spread it in a deep container.
- Pour water into a saucepan (preferably enameled), put an egg or a peeled potato, add salt and stir it constantly until one of the ingredients pops up (hence, the salt is completely dissolved).
- Add all the spices to the solution, put on the stove and cook for 5-7 minutes after boiling.
- We cool the liquid to +50 degrees, pour the brisket with the resulting solution so that the mixture covers the pieces completely.
- Cover the container with a lid and remove for two days in the fridge.
- After a specified time, it remains to cut the meat into pieces and serve it to the table.
Simple pork recipe in a package
Cooking time: 150 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 467 kcal.
You will need:
- 800 g brisket;
- 1 head of garlic;
- 0.5 tsp salts;
- to taste ground black pepper;
- seasoning for pork.
The brisket should be cut into two parts, sprinkled with seasonings, salt, pepper, and grated with garlic. Put the pork in a separate container, cover with a lid, leave in the fridge overnight so that the meat is well marinated.
After that, you need to shift the bags of meat (it is better to wrap in 2-3 bags so that the water does not penetrate inside) into the container with cold water and send it to boil for two hours, putting the pan on the minimum fire.
After turning off the stove, leave the meat in the fridge for another half an hour, let it cool for a while, then you can take out the pork. But it is best to wrap the brisket in foil and put it in the fridge at night, after which it can be served on the table.
Meat prepared according to this recipe will be tender, juicy, fragrant and ideal for a festive table.
