Do you want to feed your relatives hearty and tasty, while not standing at the stove for a long time, and even not spending a lot of money? There is a great option for family and festive dinners - pork knee with vegetables baked in the oven.
Recipe content:
- A Few Tips and Choice of Meat
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Pork knee is a traditional Czech dish, where, depending on the generosity of the establishment, a portion of it can be served up to 1.5 kg. You can count on such a dish for 3-4 persons. But in our area, a shin of this size is rarely found. Is that only on special farms. In the bazaar and in the supermarket, they are mainly sold weighing about 1 kg. But this is enough for a family of 3 people.
A Few Tips and Choice of Meat
It is advisable to buy such a piece so that it captures part of the lower leg and thigh, but at the same time the knee is in the middle. Of course, it's hard to find such a thing, but suddenly you're lucky and you will become the proud owner of a delicious piece of pork carcass! In this case, the dish will not be dry or bony, and much more pure meat will remain on the bone.
Another distinguishing feature of the pork shank size is the front and back. The front is always smaller, the back is larger. On the front there is less meat, on the back, respectively, vice versa. But if you give preference to the back, then it must be very thoroughly washed. For obvious reasons …
- Caloric content per 100 g - 294 kcal.
- Servings - 3-4
- Cooking time - 3 hours
Ingredients:
- Pork knuckle - 1 pc.
- Potatoes - 3 pcs.
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 heads
- Ground nutmeg - 1 tsp
- Ground ginger - 0.5 tsp
- Ground black pepper - 1/3 tsp
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons
- Soy sauce - 3 tablespoons
Cooking pork knee with vegetables
1. Wash the pork knuckle under running water and wipe dry with a towel. If necessary, burn existing hairs over the fire. If there is a black tan, then scrape it off with a sharp knife.
Peel half a serving of garlic, rinse, dry and cut large cloves in half. Make deep punctures on the shank with a sharp knife and stuff them with garlic. The garlic should be completely immersed in the meat (in the photo it can be seen for the sample).
2. Prepare the marinade. Combine soy sauce, nutmeg, ground pepper, soy sauce, salt, ground ginger and mix the spices well.
3. Brush the shank on all sides with sauce and leave to lie for about an hour.
4. In the meantime, prepare the rest of the vegetables. Peel and rinse potatoes and carrots. Dry the vegetables and cut into large pieces. Do not crush them very finely, otherwise they will quickly burn. Peel the garlic as well.
5. Select a suitable size dish and place the potatoes in it. Place the pork shank on top.
6. Along the edge of the mold, place the carrot sticks and garlic cloves.
7. Wrap the food with foil so that there are no gaps.
8. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and set the meat to bake for 2 hours. 30 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil so that the shank is browned and the crust becomes crispy.
9. Put the shank on a dish and cut into portions. Place baked vegetables around the edges and serve.
See also a video recipe on how to cook pork shank.
