How to cook a knuckle in the oven, and even with potatoes? Everything is very simple! In this article, I will digress a little from tourism and start preparing a delicious dish, the same one that is served with beer in bars and restaurants for big money. I don't know who buys such dishes, but at home you can cook all the same, only for 300 rubles a maximum waste.
Where can I get a knuckle for cooking in the oven?
In general, I am writing and writing about my travel adventures, and then I remembered that I had not given recipes for a long time, which I sometimes use in practice, I decided to write another article about cooking pork shank in the oven with potatoes, it’s time to open the recipe section, please I will do this in the near future, but now we are starting to cook the dish in the oven. So where to get it and how to choose a good option in the store?
We choose a meat place, it doesn't matter whether it is a store or a market, it should be a place that inspires confidence in you in terms of the quality of meat, here I will not be verbose, every reader should have such a place in mind. Let's go and choose a great option. First of all, we look at the skin, it should not be in stamps with ink and dry to the touch, a good pork knuckle should be thick and with damp skin.
Do not forget to look at the percentage of fat under the skin, for this I recommend cutting off the skin layer a little and see, usually sellers like to leave a large percentage of the skin that blocks the view and it is visually very difficult to approach this issue. I think you made the right choice and bought a nice, fat version that weighs about 3 kilograms. We begin to prepare a delicious dish.
How to cook pork knuckle in the oven? Cooking process!
I will break down the entire process of cooking pork shank in the oven point by point, I think it will be easier to assimilate information about my recipe, we start with a saucepan and a well-washed piece of meat on a leg, the pan should completely immerse the entire shank under water, for this at the store stage and choice, you need to find just such an option, I think it is better to buy a knuckle under the pan, rather than run around looking for the opposite pan for the option of a piece of meat.
- We wash our purchased version well from dirt, then pour water into a saucepan and put it on the stove to cook, as soon as the water boils, you can detect an hour and a half. If you have a huge option, weighing from 3 kilograms, then we cook for at least two and a half hours. Do not forget that the shank must be completely submerged in water during cooking. After boiling, add salt to taste and add a few bay leaves.
- After the time has passed, we take out our cooked version of the pork knuckle and start the cooking process in the oven.
- For those who like a little fried meat inside the shank, heat the oven to 200 degrees. If you like a slightly boiled taste of pork with a baked crust, then set it to 250 degrees and wait for the stove to heat up.
- While the oven is heating up, we begin to rub in the spice mixture, your imagination should already work here, no matter what spices you use, be sure to add thyme leaves according to my recommendation, it will be the dominant link in the taste. I recommend mixing all spices in a small amount of mayonnaise, it is better absorbed, but do not overdo it with mayonnaise.
- As for the thyme, I recommend making small cuts into which we push without sparing the thyme, by the way, you can add half a head of garlic to the same holes according to your taste.
- We put it in the oven, count 35-40 minutes and the process of cooking the pork knuckle in the oven started. After about 15-20 minutes, you will need to flip the shank over to cook the meat evenly.
- At the end of cooking, in about 10-15 minutes, put potatoes, cut into slices and greased with mayonnaise on top, so the potatoes will have a crispy crust and an original, not dry taste.
How to cook pork knuckle in an airfryer?
The process of cooking pork shank in an airfryer will give you a slight head start in baking, but here it is worth considering what kind of oven you have, or rather its condition. In general, having tried cooking with this method, it seemed to me that the dish turns out to be more juicy and not as dry as in the oven, but here again it is worth considering which oven is at home. The entire cooking process in the airfryer is identical to the cooking process in the oven, so we try and write comments on what you got.
Everything, the question of how to cook a pork knuckle in the oven is closed, do not let it cool too much and do not eat such dishes after 6 pm, they are very difficult to digest, although you should not judge by one organism, each has its own. Bon appetit, everyone, and a good selection of meat loafs. You may ask, what did I end up with, why the article is without photos? Below is the result of my efforts in the kitchen.
I don’t know about you, personally, after a hearty dinner, I lay and regretted that my favorite meat dish had ended so quickly, I will not hide, in winter I very often cook this dish. In the summer, I plan to try to cook a pork knuckle over a fire, but this is a completely different story, which will soon appear in the form of a fresh article on my blog. On this I hasten to deviate, I hope you liked my recipe and I will be very grateful if you share my article on social networks with your friends using the icons below.
