Hearty pork head saltison is an original treat from Italian cuisine. This cold appetizer, which can be served at the dining table or surprise guests at the holiday. In addition, the budget treat is prepared from offal.
Material Content:
Classic Pork Head Saltison
Product Composition:
- head - 1 pc. (approximately 7 kg);
- onion - 3 heads;
- Lavrushka - 5 leaves;
- pepper - 6 - 7 peas;
- garlic - a whole head;
- corn grits - 5 dessert spoons;
- pork stomach - 1 pc.
Cooking:
- To make the discussed snack at home, you first need to prepare the stomach. Rinse it off mucus. Leave for 8-9 hours in cold water.
- Over time, fill the stomach with cereals. Massage it thoroughly with your hands. Cover with a wet towel and leave for 40 minutes. Then - rinse the cereal with water. All these actions will save the stomach from a specific taste..
- Wash and scrape the head with a sharp knife. Remove eyes, cut off ears.
- Chop your head into pieces. Fully fill them with water. Cook for 4-5 minutes. Replace the water with a new batch, then cook for another 4 hours.
- Pour peeled cloves of garlic, pepper, large onion slices, salt, and lavrusha into a pan with meat. Cook another 1 hour.
- Extract the meat from the broth. Finely chop. Top up if necessary. Fill them with the stomach.
- Sew the hole with cooking threads.
- Strain the remaining broth, bring to a boil and send a stuffed stomach into it.Simmer for 60-70 minutes.
- For a beautiful color, bake the treat for another half hour in the oven at medium temperature.
Set the load on a still hot dish. Allow it to cool and transfer to cold for 7 hours.
Cooking in gauze
Product Composition:
- pork head - 1 whole;
- carrot - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- pepper - 4 - 5 peas;
- garlic - 6-7 cloves;
- Lavrushka - 4 leaves;
- salt and spices to taste.
Cooking:
- Pre-washed and cleaned head cut into 8 parts. If the tongue remains in it, soak it separately for half an hour in salty cold water.
- Pour all meat pieces (including chopped tongue) in a large saucepan. Add large slices of peeled onions and carrots, garlic cloves, spices, salt, and lavrushka.
- Cook the meat over low heat. It will take 5-6 hours.
- Peel off the tongue. Chop all the meat slices lightly. Throw bones and vegetables.
- The form is covered with gauze folded in 5-6 layers.
- Spread meat and fat on top. Sprinkle with salt and spices if desired.
- The ends of the gauze knit from above.
Press the workpiece down with a load. Leave in the refrigerator for 11 hours, then remove the cheesecloth and try the original dish.
In a slow cooker
Product Composition:
- pork head - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 6 cloves;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- roots for the broth.
Cooking:
- There are several ways to make pork head saltison. One of them offers the use of a multicooker. To do this, cut the prepared (peeled) head into large pieces and put them in the bowl of the kitchen assistant.
- To send there the favorite roots for the broth, peeled garlic, salt and spices.
- Cook meat in a suitable mode for 7-8 hours.
- Disassemble the finished product into pieces, throwing out the bones, as well as the roots and garlic heads.
- Lay the meat in several layers of clean gauze. Press down with a load. Allow to cool.
- Leave the workpiece in the refrigerator all night.
Carefully remove the coating and cut into batch pieces.
Pork Head Saltison in the Stomach
Product Composition:
- pork head - 1 pc.;
- prepared stomach - 1 pc.;
- salt - 3 dessert spoons
- chopped nutmeg - 2 dessert spoons;
- ground pepper - to taste;
- Lavrushka - 5 leaves.
Cooking:
- Prepare the stomach in advance - soak and process with corn grits.
- Cut the cleaned washed head into large pieces. Cook with parsley, salt and spices. The whole process will take 5 hours.
- Collect meat from bones. If necessary, add it.
- Stuff the prepared stomach with meat slices. Sew it up.
- In the broth left over from the meat, boil the saltisone in the stomach. Leave it in boiling liquid for 60 - 70 minutes.
Optionally, bake the dish in the oven until light brown.
Traditional Ukrainian Recipe
Product Composition:
- pork head - 1 pc.;
- stomach - 1 pc.;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- fresh lard - 200 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- fresh garlic - 7 to 8 cloves;
- salt and spices;
- corn grits - 250 g;
- Lavrushka - 4 leaves;
- peas of black pepper - 4 - 5 pcs.
Cooking:
- Chopped washed head into 8 parts. To fill with water. After boiling, replace the liquid.
- Immediately add to the meat a lavrushka (3 leaves), pepper, half peeled cloves of garlic, vegetables, salt and spices. Simmer for about 5 hours.
- Turn out the stomach. Wash it thoroughly, massaging with your hands, removing mucus and other impurities.
- Pour the pork stomach with lemon juice (half) and grate with a large amount of coarse salt. After a quarter of an hour, rinse thoroughly again.
- Pour the stomach with the remaining lemon juice. Add to it the remaining parsley and a couple of peppercorns. Fill everything with water. Leave on for 90 minutes.
- Lastly, thoroughly rub the stomach with cereal (corn) and rinse again.
- Separate meat from bones. Remove the film from the tongue. Cut everything into small pieces. Mix with the remaining mashed garlic and small slices of bacon. Add and pepper. Mix everything well.
- Stuff the meat base.Sew up the stomach. Cook saltison in the remaining broth for 1.5 hours.
Leave the finished treat under oppression for 3 hours.
How to cook in a bottle
Product Composition:
- pork head - 1 pc.;
- Lavrushka - 4 leaves;
- salt and spices to taste;
- celery root - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 head;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- fresh garlic - 1 head.
Cooking:
- To make saltisone in a bottle, the first thing you need to do is meat. Strip your head. Cut off the tongue. Soak the parts for 3.5 hours in ice water, periodically change the liquid.
- Rinse the meat again.
- Pour it with fresh water, and send to boil for 5 hours. Pour salt, spices, celery, vegetables and half peeled garlic cloves into the pan immediately.
- Prepare a large plastic bottle.
- Remove the finished meat from the bones. Peel the film off the tongue. Cut food into pieces. Add the remaining chopped garlic to them.
- Transfer meat pieces with garlic into a bottle. Fill the container tightly with them. Fill the remaining space with strained broth.
- Send the bottle to the fridge all night.
From the finished dish, carefully cut the plastic. Chop the treats in circles like sausage.
A simple and quick way to make saltisone
Product Composition:
- head (pigs) - 1 pc. (for 4 - 5 kg);
- low-fat pork - 1 kg;
- pork legs - 2 pcs.;
- parsley and celery root - 2 pcs.;
- salt and spices to taste;
- fresh garlic - 100 g.
Cooking:
- Prepared (cleaned and washed) head cover with water. To her send slices of meat and legs. Leave the products for 3 to 4 hours. In the process, change the fluid twice.
- Put the roots, salt, spices, peeled garlic in the pan. Add all the meat to them. Pour ingredients with fresh water. Cook for 4 hours, removing the foam.
- Cut the meat into pieces together with cartilage. Dill, add spices. Transfer to silicone molds. Pour strained broth.
Leave the food in the cold all night. Serve with mustard and / or horseradish.
The main mistake of any housewife is to lower the stomach with Saltison into a still cold broth. It must be immersed in boiling water, otherwise the coating will burst, and the dish will be spoiled.
Instead of a stomach, you can use not only gauze, but also a bag or sleeve for baking.
