Pork - meat, from which you can cook a lot of tasty and simple and complex dishes. All sorts of marinades, a variety of additional ingredients, various spices and sauces - all this goes well with pork, improving and enriching the taste of meat.
But it is not at all necessary to compose complex recipes, because pork is a product that does not require special culinary skills and abilities, you can simply cut the meat, slightly salted and fry it in your own fat.
Today we will cook pork in a slow cooker: a short preparation of the components of the dish, and then the “miracle machine” will cook everything by itself.
Step-by-step recipe for pork in a slow cooker - general principles
The basic principle of cooking pork is simple: preliminary preparation of the ingredients available in the house, laying the food in the multicooker bowl in a certain sequence, setting the desired mode: “frying”, “stewing”, “baking”, “steaming”.
Pork can be taken fresh or chilled. Different parts are suitable for cooking meat in a slow cooker: pulp, ribs, neck, ham, ribs. The meat is thoroughly washed, dried, cut into pieces of the desired shape, rubbed with spices and salt or put on time in any marinade.
Next, prepared pieces spread in a multicooker container and bring to readiness in any of the above modes. Additionally, you can put cereals, vegetables, herbs and other products in the bowl of meat.
1. Pork in a slow cooker: a step-by-step recipe in sweet and sour sauce
Ingredients:
• boneless pork fillet - one kilogram;
• soy sauce - 30 ml;
• garlic - five cloves;
• any mayonnaise - 200 grams;
• lean oil - four tablespoons;
• one orange;
• ten grams of black pepper and finely ground salt;
• sugar - 20 grams.
For soy sauce: • soybeans - three handfuls;
• wheat flour - 30 grams;
• any broth - one glass;
• a piece of butter;
• 15 grams of salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the pork fillet, cut out all the films and tendons if necessary, cut the prepared pulp into medium slices about three centimeters thick.
2. Stir the meat with salt, pepper and put it in the fridge overnight so that it is fed, so the prepared dish will be much tastier and more fragrant. A little trick will help speed up the marinating process: slightly beat off the finished fillet, make punctures in several places with a sharp knife and carefully rub the salt and pepper - in this case, a couple of hours will be enough for steeping.
3. Set the slow cooker to “baking” or “frying” mode, depending on what type of slow cooker you have, for twenty minutes. Pour vegetable oil into the capacity of the multicooker, heat it, put the sliced pork pieces. When continuously stirring with a wooden spatula, fry the meat until light brown crust.
4. Prepare the soy sauce: soy beans in a metal container with cold water, boil over high heat until boiling. Then reduce the heat, remove the scum with a spoon and continue cooking until the grains soften. Put the cooked soybeans in a colander so that the glass is water, cool them and grind them in a blender to a mushy state. Pour flour into gruel from soy beans, mix everything well. Melt the butter in a dry frying pan, cool it a little and pour it into cooked soy gruel, add some salt. Stir and put the gruel into a small container, pour in any broth, for example, from vegetables, meat, fish or other, turn on a small fire and cook for five minutes. Turn off the heat, cool the mixture, strain through a sieve and can use. But, if you do not want to bother with the preparation of soy sauce, you can buy it already ready in the store.
5. When the meat is fried, squeeze the garlic through the press and pour in the cooled soy sauce, stir everything thoroughly and fry for another five minutes. 6. Squeeze juice from an orange through a juicer or manually. Try to taste the orange juice, if it is very sour, then add a little sugar to it, stir well, and if sweet, then you do not need to put sugar. Also, instead of juice, you can use citrus pulp, for this, peel the orange, remove the stones, chop with a knife.
7. Pour orange juice into the meat and add mayonnaise, stir well again, fry everything together, stirring occasionally, for another four minutes.
8. Switch the appliance to the “extinguishing” mode, set the time for twenty minutes and fry until the beep is heard. If you want the meat to be juicier, then pour two large spoons of water to it.
9. Put the finished pork on portions, next to it you can put some side dish, for example, mashed potatoes, boiled rice and other. Separately in the breadbox put slices of black bread.
2. Pork in the crock-pot: step-by-step recipe with vegetables
Ingredients:
• white cabbage - small forks;
• three small potatoes;
• one medium carrot;
• onion head;
• three cloves of garlic;
• pork tenderloin - 400 grams;
• vegetable oil and tomato paste - three tablespoons;
• five grams of salt and freshly ground black pepper;
• dill, parsley - 4 stalks each.
Preparation:
1. Prepare all the necessary vegetables: from the cabbage, separate the top leaves, rinse the head of cabbage under running water, cut into thin straws. Peel the tubers, wash them, cut them into medium-sized cubes or dice as you like. Peel the carrots and onions, chop the onion into small pieces, grate the carrot on the grater with small teeth.
2. Rinse the pork fillet, cut into strips.
3. Set the slow cooker to the “frying” mode, pour vegetable oil into the container, put the chopped cabbage, fry it, stirring for half an hour. When the cabbage acquires a beautiful ruddy color, lay potatoes on it and fry for four minutes. 4. Add grated carrot and onion to potatoes and cabbage, fry for another four minutes.
5. Fill the entire contents of the multicooker tank with 200 ml of water, add some salt and, if desired, pepper with black pepper, switch the appliance to “quenching” mode and then twenty minutes with the lid closed.
6. After the allotted time, lay out the prepared meat to all the vegetables. If you want the finished dish to be richer, then, before placing in the multicooker container, fry the pork in a clean pan for five minutes on high heat until a golden crust appears on its surface.
7. And the last ingredient, add garlic, squeezed through the garlic, as well as tomato paste. Tomit on the same mode no more than three minutes. Garlic is an obligatory ingredient of this dish, it gives pork a special unique flavor, but you can not add tomato paste, it all depends on your taste and preferences.
8. Put the finished pork with vegetables on a la carte plates, sprinkle with chopped parsley or dill. Next to a separate flat plate, put the sliced pieces of white bread.
3. Skewers of pork in a slow cooker: a step by step recipe
Ingredients:
• a large piece of pork pulp, ideally the neck;
• four onions;
• two large spoons of vinegar 9%;
• 30 grams of salt, allspice in a ground form and barbecue seasoning;
• hot pepper ground - on request;
• parsley, dill - half a bunch.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the pork thoroughly, cut into four centimeters thick. Put the sliced pieces of meat in a deep cup.
2. Prepare the marinade as follows: peel the onion heads, cut into thin straws, pour in acetic acid, a little water, add ground ground salt, black, red pepper and various spices to your taste, mix well.
3. Pour marinade into meat, mix again. Leave the pork under the lid in the refrigerator for five hours, and preferably overnight for a richer taste. 4. After the time allotted for marinating, turn on the slow cooker in the “baking” mode. Put the marinated meat in the multicooker container, set the time for about 25 minutes.
5. After the beep, open the lid of the multicooker, cut a piece of meat, if it is reddish inside, set the time for another ten minutes and fry. The finished meat should be soft and juicy. If desired, during roasting, meat in multicookers can be poured with tomato sauce, sprinkled with lemon juice.
6. Put ready-made home-made skewers in a slow cooker on small flat plates, a few pieces per serving, put three slices of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers on each plate. If you made kebabs without sauce, you can simply pour it with kebab ketchup and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and dill. Separately, in plates, place in one marinated onion, and in the second cut slices of white bread.
Step-by-step recipes for pork in a slow cooker: tricks and tips
• Pork always tastes better when marinated meat. You can use spices, sauces, any marinades. If the time for pickling is sorely lacking, you can simply mix the crushed garlic with salt and pepper and rub the sliced pieces with this mixture.
• Do not assume that the spices indicated in the recipe drive you into certain frames, you can safely replace one component with another using other herbs and spices, as well as choosing your own set of products for preparing sauces and marinades.
