How to cook the root in the oven

The pork steering wheel has a gentle and tasty meat, and if it is properly cooked, it may well become a beautiful festive dish. It is more convenient to bake it in the oven, then it turns out a ruddy, fairy, quite juicy and at the same time soft.

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Correctly selected steering wheel - the key to excellent taste

To bake a pork knuckle truly tasty, first of all you need to choose the right meat. Here are some tips on this:

• The younger pig, the softer it will be her meat. If you can check the age of the animal, then choose a pig not older than two years.
• It is sometimes possible to determine the age of the animal sometimes by weight of the knob. The perfect mass hesitates from 1200 to 1800. If the wheel weighs more, then the pig was either old or overwhelmed. In any case, the meat will be or tough, or too fat. Some unscrupulous sellers pump meat with water so that it was heavier.
• Thirdly and gentle are the knobs from the rear legs, and it is precisely those parts that are located above the knee. In addition, there is more meat and a sufficient amount of fat. Such a knuckle will definitely not get dry and dwelling.
• Where to buy the steering wheel, of course, depends on you. But we advise you to do it or in the organized market or in the supermarket. Meat at such points of sale, as a rule, is undergoing sanitary control, so you can be confident in its safety.
• If you do not trust the seller, then ask him the documents on the pork. They should contain information that the animal was healthy and meat is suitable for eating.
• The most delicious meat is something that was not in freezing. Therefore, try to cook the knob in the near future after the purchase, so as not to hide it into the freezer.

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Preparation of the knob to the roaster in the oven

• If your knob is still frozen, before cooking it, of course, it is necessary to defrost. Put it on the table or on the night, move it from the freezer to the refrigeration chamber. If you want to defrost quickly, put the steering wheel in cold water. In no case do not put hot water, because it will take a large amount of liquid and the meat will become dry.
• A steering wheel, ready for baking, wash under the crane, and the skin is pretty rush with a knife. Sometimes the skin is removed before cooking, but it is better not to do. The skin contains fat and gelatin, they impregnate meat when baking, retain its juiciness and softness. Yes, and looks like a knot with a ruddy crust in the finished form of much appetizing.
• Many recipes of baking the knobs in the oven assume its pre-bunning. Although it is not always possible to do this, sometimes the leg is just marked in some interesting sauce.
• If the knobs on the skin there are bristles, then it is more convenient to delete it after you boil the leg.

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Recipes cooking pork knuckles in the oven

Baking pork steering wheel - the process is quite long. To prepare a really tasty and gentle meat, you will need 2-3 hours, but they will be spent no wonder. For you, we have collected several original ways to cook pork knuckles in the oven.

Pork steering wheel in beer and spices

This steering wheel before bake in the oven, boiled in beer with the addition of onions, garlic and seasonings. Do not hurry to pour the bouillon left after cooking - you will water the leg already during baking. A pleasant moment: products for dishes need not much. Their list in front of you:

• pork steering wheel - 1 pc.;
• bulb - 1 pc.;
• dark beer - 2.5 liters;
• garlic - 1 small head;
• sunflower oil - 3 tbsp.;
• salt, black pepper, coriander, thyme - to taste.

This is how this pork steering wheel is done:

• The meat is washed and thoroughly scraps the skin with a knife. Then the knob is cut into several places. Salt is stirred with seasonings and rub the leg from all sides.
• After a couple of hours, the steering wheel is placed in a saucepan and poured beer. If necessary, beer are satisfied, so that the meat did not work out. A whole purified bulb and half of the garlic head are put in the sudine. The saucepan put on fire and boil meat 1.5 hours under the lid. After removing the foam, fire is reduced to weak.
• The boiled steering wheel is removed and cool. The remaining cloves of garlic pass through the press and rub the meat. Then the knob is shifted on a lubricated baking sheet, pour from beer from above and sent to a hot oven, where at a temperature of 200 ° C baked it for 1 hour.
• From time to time, the meat is checked and watered beer.

Baked pork steering wheel with apples

Baking meat with apples is such a popular way to prepare, which can be considered a classic. And as meat, it is not necessary to take duck, goose or chicken, pork steering wheel in such a recipe will not be worse than. We'll figure it out that we need for such a recipe:

• pork steering wheel - 1 pc.;
• green apples - 2 pcs.;
• garlic - 1 head;
• onions - 1 pc.;
• sauce "Teriyaki" - 3 tbsp.;
• apple or rice vinegar - 1 tbsp.;
• dark beer - 100 ml;
• salt, black pepper, coriander, basil, fenugreek - to taste.

This recipe consists of such steps:

• The steering wheel is desirable to divide into 2 parts, and it can be asked to make on the market if you buy it there. Then the meat should be thoroughly wash and suck the skin.
• Then the marinade is made for the knob. It mixes the following: rice or apple vinegar, teriyaki sauce, beer, some salt and seasonings. In such a sauce, the steering wheel is soaked for 3 hours.
• Onions and garlic are cleaned of husks, cords cut out of apples. Then the onions need to be cut on the quarter, each apple to divide on 8 parts.
• The pickled steering wheel is laid out in a greased shape, apples, onions and garlic cloves are laid out around her. All this is watering marinade.
• The form is covered with foil and goes into the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for 2 hours. Then the foil must be removed, pour meat with juice and bake it in the oven for another 30 minutes.

Pork steering wheel with tangerines, dill and celery

In this recipe, citrus fruits are also used, but for excellent fragrance, greenery is added here - dill and celery. We will deal with the list of necessary components:

• pork steering wheel - 1 pc.;
• mandarins - 2 pcs.;
• mustard powder - 1 tbsp.;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp.;
• blend "Olive herbs" - 1 tbsp.;
• dill - 1 beam;
• celery - 2 stems;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• baking foil.

And the steering wheel is baked for this recipe like this:

• Salt, mustard powder, olive oil and olive herbs mix. The meat is well wash, clean the skin from dirt and bristles, in the knob we make cuts and rub it with a spicy sauce. Marinate the leg night, placing in the refrigerator.
• We clean from tangerine peel and divide them to slices. Ellipped on the table foil, splashing it with oil, we put the tangerine slices on top. Rubym dill and celery, sprinkle tangerines. We lay out onto the fruit with the greenery, wrap it in Foil and put it on a baking sheet.
• On the baking sheet pour a glass of water and send it into a hot ovens. At a temperature of 200 ° C we bake the knurar with tangerines for 1 hour.
• An hour later, the baking sheet turn over the front side to the back wall of the oven, pour another 1 cup of water and the stove of meat for another 1.5 hours.
• Then we cut a foil, flexing the edge, opening the knob. In this form we bake it another 20-30 minutes to get a crust.