Baked ham in the oven - general principles of cooking
When it comes to appetizers on the festive table, then today they prefer sausage and cheese. There is a more delicious and healthy option - to cook a pork ham in the oven. It is not difficult, although not all housewives manage to get really juicy and tasty meat. After studying the following recipes, you can not go wrong with cooking technology.
Baked ham was cooked in Ancient Russia, though, then the main ingredient was bear meat. Today, the recipe has changed somewhat, and for the tasty baked ham, pork is already taken. Beef does not quite fit, such meat will turn out dryish due to the fact that it stores a little fat. Lamb can also be baked, but, on the contrary, it is just very fat, and not everyone will like it. How to choose the “right” meat, we will tell below.
Baked ham in the oven - preparing food and dishes
Modern hostesses for boiled pork most often take exactly pork, although, following the recommendations, a tasty dish can also be obtained from veal or chicken.
If you prefer pork, then here are tips to consider when buying. First of all, it is better to acquire a holistic piece, from 1 to 1, 5 kilograms. What kind of meat is best? One where there is no streaks and a large amount of fat. For example, you can safely buy the back or ham. Also fit neck with fat, it is best suited precisely neck. It has an uneven structure, the meat alternates with thin layers of fat, which, under the influence of temperature, will melt and saturate the baked ham with aroma and juice.
Do not purchase frozen meat. Also very fresh, fresh meat is not suitable. Before cooking the meat must be prepared. For whatever recipe you decide to cook a boiled pork, follow these steps:
- Meat is thoroughly washed under running water from the blood
- Films are removed, meat is soaked in brine for about two hours
- The product is scaled, spiced with
- The meat piece is laid out on the deck (in foil or baking sleeve)
- Baked ham baked
A few words about soaking. The fact is that only juicy pork pretends to be a successful dish. For this reason, the meat must be well soaked. For this, it is immersed in a brine (an example of the simplest brine is fifty grams of salt per liter of water). Very well, if you have a kitchen scale - perfectly soaked meat should be 25-30% heavier than the original weight. Soaking time is at least an hour.
How long baked ham? Not less than 1.5 hours, if it is the meat of a young pig. If the animal was more adult, then the baking period is extended, but should not exceed 3 hours, otherwise dry it. Roasting temperature - 160 degrees.
Baked pork recipes in the oven:
Recipe 1: Baked ham in the oven
Let us describe the preparation of classic boiled pork. You will need meat and spices. Such a dish will be delicious both hot and cold. Bake baked ham will be in the sleeve.
Ingredients Required:
- Meat (neck) - 1-2 kg
- Salt and pepper
Method of preparation:
- After preparing the meat, soak it. To do this, in a deep tank, you need to make a brine by mixing salt and water. Immerse the meat for 100 minutes, then remove. If you notice that the meat is not properly filled with liquid, you can “help” it by introducing the brine into the meat with a syringe.
- Drain the meat and rub it on all sides with pepper.
- Put the meat piece in the sleeve. Warning: you must leave 15 centimeters of free space, otherwise the sleeve will burst.
- Place the meat in the oven and bake.
- After baking, let the boiled pork stay at least half an hour up your sleeve. It is during the cooling that the liquid evaporates, which will not happen if the meat is not immediately reachable.
Recipe 2: Baked pork in the oven with carrots and garlic
This recipe will describe the preparation of a stuffed boiled pork. If you want to add something to the taste of meat, then you need to bake such a dish only in foil or a sleeve. Otherwise, as a result of the evaporation of the liquid, the vegetables will simply fall out and will not give up the flavor of the pork. Ingredients Required:
- A solid piece of meat - 1-1.5 kg.
- 2 carrots
- 5 teeth of garlic
- Spices
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the meat - wash and soak in brine.
- Rub the meat with pepper and other spices that you decide to use. Make small cuts along the entire perimeter of the meat.
- Peel the carrots and cut them into slices. Peel the garlic and cut each tooth in half.
- Insert the pieces of vegetables alternately into the cuts.
- Wrap the meat in foil and send to bake.
Recipe 3: Baked ham in the oven (beef)
Can I make a delicious beef pork? Of course! The fact is that beef is considered to be lean meat, and therefore, not following certain rules, you simply dry out the dish by staying in the oven for a long time.
It is obligatory to cook beef baked ham in foil, cooking time is two hours.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef - 1 - 1.5 kg
- Spices
- Bay leaf
- Pork lard - 300 gr.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the meat. To soak, prepare such a brine: boil 1.5 liters of water, add bay leaf, allspice-peas and 80 gr. salt. Let the liquid leave for 3 minutes, then remove it from the heat and let it cool. Pour the meat for 1.5 hours.
- Cut the bacon into slices.
- Rub the meat with pepper.
- Put it on the foil. Place slices of bacon on top, so that it covers the beef. After that, wrap tightly with foil and send to the oven to bake.
Recipe 4: Baked ham in the oven with dried apricots
This is a festive cooking option that is best served cold. The most delicious meat from this recipe is obtained by soaking it in a light beer or a savory kvass.
Ingredients Required:
- Beer (kvass) - 1.2 liters
- Pork - 1-1.5 kg
- Dried apricots - 200 gr.
- Spices
Method of preparation:
- Prepare a piece of pork by soaking it for an hour in kvass or beer.
- Pour dried apricots with boiling water to make it soft. After soaking it for 15 minutes, drain and rinse.
- Drain with dry towels and rub with salt and pepper.
- Make cuts on meat 2-2.5 centimeters deep.
- Insert dried apricots into the cuts along the entire perimeter of the meat piece.
- Wrap the pork tightly with foil and send it to the oven for baking.
Recipe 5: Baked ham in the oven without foil
Baked ham cooked this way will most of all resemble the dish that our Slavic ancestors prepared. After all, they did not have foil and baking sleeves, but because the meat was baked on hot metal surfaces. The peculiarity of this dish is that it will turn out with a crispy crust on top and tender inside.
Ingredients Required:
- Meat - 1-1.5 kg
- Salo - 200 gr.
- Spices
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the meat by soaking it in brine for about 1.5 hours.
- Rub with spices from all sides.
- In the deck on which the meat will be baked, pour liquids (approximately 1 cm), put two or three cloves.
- Cut the bacon into slices.
- Put the meat on the deck, put the pieces of bacon on top of the pork, and send everything to the oven. Baking time - 90 minutes, temperature - 160 degrees.
- Every half hour, observe if the water has evaporated. If it is left very little, pour.
Recipe 6: Baked ham in the oven from chicken
Baked ham is any meat baked in the oven, so why wouldn't it be chicken meat? Cooked ham in the oven from the fillet is very fast - no more than 15 minutes. The temperature must be chosen high - at least 250 degrees.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken fillet - 1-1.5 kilograms
- Spices
- Garlic
Method of preparation:
- Wash the meat, remove the wires and films. Leave to soak in the solution for 2 hours.
- Drain the meat and grease it from all sides with spices. Lay it on the foil and squeeze the garlic through the press. Fully wrap.
- Place in the oven and bake.
Baked ham in the oven - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Meat is not necessary to bake in foil. If you bake it just like that, in a frying pan or deck, put the fattest part up. During heat treatment, the fat will melt and drain around the piece, saturating it with meat juice.
- If you bake meat on a deck or pan without foil, it can burn. To prevent this from happening, pour water to the bottom and make sure that it does not evaporate completely, adding water if necessary. The second trick - put wooden sticks (for example, used in Chinese cuisine) on the bottom of the deck and place meat on them.
- Before cooking the boiled pork, calcine the oven. If you put the meat in a cold oven, then it will turn out dryish.
- To make the meat more juicy, then fry it for one minute on each side, before putting it in the oven.
- Do not rush to get the pork, if it was prepared in foil or in the sleeve - if the meat is drawn after cooking, it will be even tastier.
- If you want to make the pork in the foil brownish and bake the crust, you need to remove the top of the foil 20 minutes before the end of cooking and increase the cooking temperature to 180 degrees.
- What spices to use for pork? Feel free to rub hops-suneli meat, basil, pepper, dried herbs.
