Cook pork leg aspic for 4 hours.
How to cook pork leg jellied meat
What will you need?
Pork legs – 1 kilogram
Chicken leg – 300-400 grams
Onions – 1 head
Carrots – 1 large
Garlic – 3 prongs
Parsley and dill – 1 small bunch each
Salt – 1 tablespoon
Ground black pepper – 1 teaspoon
How to cook pork leg jellied meat
1. Soak pork legs in water for 2 hours. Thoroughly wash the pork legs, removing any dirt with a food brush or knife.
2. Put the legs in a saucepan, fill with water so that the water level is 6-7 centimeters higher than the level of the pork legs.
3. Put the saucepan on high heat, bring water to a boil, reduce heat to low, so that the water boils a little. Skim off the foam regularly.
4. Cook the pork legs for 2,5 hours under a loosely closed lid, then add the chicken leg, peeled carrots and peeled onion to the pan.
5. Cook the jellied meat for another 1,5 hours.
6. Salt and pepper the jellied meat, add herbs (right in the bunches).
7. Peel the garlic, chop and add to the jellied meat.
8. Cook for 1 hour more, skimming off the foam.
9. Strain the broth through cheesecloth, remove the vegetables.
10. Put the meat on a dish, separate the bones, chop the meat finely. Separate the cartilage from the bones and chop finely.
11. Divide the meat into jellied dishes.
12. Pour the jellied meat with broth.
13. Cool the jellied meat and put in the refrigerator for 8 hours.
Delicious facts
– Buy pork legs are better in already known butcher shops, where pork legs were definitely not frozen.
– You need to sort out the meat of boiled pork legs as carefully as possible, not allowing even the smallest ones to get into the jellied meat bones… It is recommended to strain the broth.
– Serve pork leg jelly with horseradish or mustard.
– If the jellied pork legs not frozen, you can add edible gelatin to the broth. For every 500 milliliters of warm (not boiling water!) Broth, provide 10 grams of gelatin. Stir gelatin quickly in broth, leave for 10 minutes and then strain.
– To give pickled flavor pork leg jellied meat should be added before pouring into molds 1 teaspoon of vinegar 9%.
– Cost 200 grams of ready-made pork leg jellied meat in the store – from 120 rubles / 300 grams. The cost of products for the preparation of 1 kilogram of jellied meat is 200 rubles. Average prices in Moscow for June 2020.