2014-11-27

Oven baked pork is a safe option for a hot dish for any occasion. And the New Year is no exception here. I recently told you how to cook. Smoothly continuing the theme of preparing for the New Year's feast, I want to offer my dear readers a selection of recipes for baked pork. For a large company in which everyone eats pork for sure (this should be found out in advance), such a choice of the main course will be quite justified. So today we will consider how to cook baked pork.

For baking in the oven, the shoulder and neck parts of the front cut of pork carcasses, the hip of the hind cut (especially the outside of the hind leg), the dorsal, breast-rib (with and without bones) and the belly of the middle cut are suitable. Please do not be alarmed by tricky names - I would like my dear readers to use the terms correctly. "Backside", "director's piece" - sometimes it is difficult to understand what is at stake. If necessary, in the future we will analyze the scheme for cutting pork carcasses. We got a little distracted. But, to the topic "pork baked in the oven", this is directly related. Choosing the right pork for roasting is half the battle!

Pork baked in the oven. Recipes with photos

Juicy neck

Ingredients

• 2-2.5 kg pork neck.
• 70 ml of olive oil.
• 3-4 cloves of garlic.
• Several branches of savory.
• Salt.

Baked pork meat is usually “on friendly terms” with garlic and herbs. But, I have a difficult relationship with garlic, so I do this: I crush it and put it in olive oil, and send the leaves of savory there. It is necessary to prepare such a fragrant oil in advance.

How to cook

1. Salt the meat, rub it well with garlic oil and leave it there for at least 3-4 hours, and preferably 10-12 hours.
2. After aging in the marinade, we send the meat to the crucible of the oven.
3. The oven temperature should be 200 ° C.
4. We bake the meat until tender, periodically pouring over it with the juice that stands out.

My remarks

• As a marinade, you can use mustard, white or red wine, sherry, Madeira, apple and pomegranate juices, herbs (marjoram, basil, dill, thyme).
• Vegetables are often baked with meat - onions, carrots, peppers, or even a piece of pork is placed on a vegetable pillow.
• It is best to bake pork in a thick-walled container - heat-resistant ceramic, glass or cast iron.

We have considered the simplest option. Baked pork is a very versatile recipe. Meat can simply be stuffed with pieces of garlic and carrots (one small carrot is enough for 2.5 kg of meat). A very festive recipe is pork baked in puff pastry.

Pork piece baked in puff pastry

I propose a "free" interpretation of beef in Wellington style - a piece of pork wrapped in puff pastry, baked in the oven, has not left anyone indifferent. This dish has only one enemy - conscience. But, and she loves tasty things.

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg pork tenderloin or loin.
• 600 g ready-made puff pastry.
• 300 g of fresh porcini mushrooms.
• 1 large onion.
• 50 g butter.
• 50 g of pork buck.
• 100 grams of walnuts.
• 1 egg.
• Ground black pepper.
• Salt.

Preparation

1. Salt, pepper and fry the meat on lard in a whole piece from all sides until firm crust, cool completely.
2. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes, peel the onion and cut into thin half rings.
3. Fry the onion in hot butter until golden brown, add mushrooms, fry together for 5 minutes, cool completely.
4. We clean the nuts, dry a little in a pan until a pleasant aroma appears, cool and grind in a special mill or grind in a meat grinder.
5. Roll out the puff pastry so that you get a rectangle of such a size that you can completely wrap the piece of pork to be baked in it.
6. Put half of the fried mushrooms in the middle of the dough, sprinkle with half of the nuts.
7. Put the meat on the filling, on it - the remnants of mushrooms and nuts.
8. Wrap a piece with dough, brush with a beaten egg. Put in preheated to 200 ° C, bake for about 1 hour.

Notes (edit)

• Pork baked in a puff pastry piece can be cooked in several stages. This is especially convenient if you plan to serve such a dish on New Year's or any other festive table.
• First, you prepare the filling, fry the meat. Before the arrival of guests, you wrap the meat together with the filling in the dough and send it to bake in the oven.

Pork in the oven in foil

A very simple, even banal dish. But, - deliciously extraordinary! And most importantly, it requires a minimum of the active participation of the chef. That, in the pre-holiday bustle, you see, is important! A weighty piece should be pickled and sent to the oven at the "X" hour!

Ingredients

• 2 kg of pork.
• 500 ml white wine or apple juice
• 5-6 cloves of garlic.
• Black peppercorns.
• Bay leaf.
• Salt.

Cooking technology

1. In a non-oxidizing bowl, mix the wine, salt, chives, peeled and chopped into large pieces, bay leaf, black pepper.
2. Put a piece of meat in the marinade, “bathe” it in this font from all sides and leave for at least 3-4 hours.
3. After the required time has elapsed, remove from the liquid, wrap the piece in two layers of foil and place in an oven preheated to 200 ° C.
4. After an hour and a half, carefully unfold the foil, let the pork brown for about half an hour.
5. Remove from the oven and let the meat "rest" for 10-15 minutes.

My remarks

• If you bake a scapula, then pour warm water into the baking dish, about an inch by 2. The fact is that collagen, which is found in abundance in the tissues of the meat of the scapula, softens better when heated in the presence of water.
• It is absolutely wonderful to bake meat in foil in the oven along with skin and lard. Before pickling, you should cut the bacon with the skin cross-to-cross. We must try to get the salt and spices into the cuts. The fat layer should not be large.
• Pork loin baked in foil wrapped in brisket looks spectacular on the table.

How much to bake pork in the oven

Pork, unlike baked lamb and beef, is usually cooked to full readiness. But, even in this case, it is not worth baking it for too long. Otherwise, the meat will become dry and fibrous. If you have a special thermometer to measure the temperature inside a piece of meat, then use it. Roast the pork until it reaches 75-80 ° C inside the thickest part.

How long does it take to bake pork in the oven if there is no thermometer? The guideline for readiness can be a clear flowing juice and a crispy crust - but such signs cannot be too accurate. You can be guided by this rule - for every 500 grams of raw pork, you need 25 minutes of cooking at a temperature of 200 ° C.

Meat in the oven, of course, is prepared according to many other family recipes, which, I hope, you, my dear readers, will share with me! Photos are welcome! I will certainly publish them along with the recipes. Please send your options in the comments to this article or by e-mail marked pork baked in the oven.

At the end of our meeting today, there is music that cannot be spoken about in words. Romance by Georgy Sviridov to the magnificent film by Vladimir Basov "Snowstorm" (based on the novel of the same name by A.S. Pushkin):