Prepared from pork shank can be aspic and meat salad with onions. Shin, especially the back, very tasty and affordable part of the pork carcass, which you can feed a small company, if you cook it reasonably. From the 2-pound knuckle you get a bowl of meat salad and a large plate of brawn. There is still meat broth, which I advise you to cook soup or borscht.
For these dishes we take back shank weighing from 1.7 to 2 kilograms. I advise you to beg the most meaty from the butcher.
Chicken and salad served on the table with mustard and horseradish - incredible yummy!
- Cooking time: 3 hours
- Servings: 5-6
Ingredients for pork knuckle and jelly salad
- 2 kg pork knuckle;
- 2 carrots;
- 2 onions;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 1 \ 2 stem of leek;
- 1 bunch of dill and parsley;
- 4 bay leaves;
- 2 chilli pods;
- 1 teaspoon of pepper;
- 1 tablespoon of gelatin;
- 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar;
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 1 egg;
- salt.
Method of cooking jelly and meat salad from pork shank
Spices for pork leg broth: leek and 1 onion, garlic, carrots, a bunch of dill, laurel and pepper, chili pod.
Carefully wash the pork leg, if necessary, scrape the skin, then wash it with running water.
In the largest saucepan we put the knuckle, pour 4 liters of cold water, add all the above seasonings, except the carrot. We close the pan with a lid tightly, after boiling we remove the scale with a skimmer and make the heating minimal.
Cook on low heat for about 2 hours, 30 minutes before the end of cooking, put the cleaned carrot into the pan.
You can salt the broth for 20 minutes until ready, but I prefer to salt the meat and broth separately in the process of further cooking, in order to better control the amount of salt.
We get the knuckle from the broth, we shift it to the bowl, we filter the broth.
Separate the meat from the bones and sort. Put the pieces of boiled pork without fat into a separate bowl - this is meat for salad. Separately fold the skin and fatty meat - for aspic.
Cooking a simple pork knuckle meat salad. Low-fat meat cut into large chunks, put in a salad bowl.
Add the onion head, cut into thin half-rings.
Finely chop fresh greens and dice a pod of fresh chili peppers, add chili and greens.
At this stage, salt and pepper to taste, pour apple vinegar.
Mix the ingredients of the meat salad, put in the refrigerator for several hours, preferably overnight.
For shredded pork shank, we chop finely skin and fatty meat, put it in trays for aspic or soup bowl.
Boiled carrot cut into large cubes, add to the plate with meat. At this stage, salt to taste, if the meat is cooked without salt.
A tablespoon of gelatin dissolve in 300 ml of strained broth, salt the broth.
Pour hot broth with gelatin in a plate.
Cut a hard-boiled chicken egg into 3-4 slices, decorate aspic with an egg and dill sprigs.
We remove the plate in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
Bon appetit!
