Fragrant baked pork in foil! It is not greasy, nor is it dry. Very tender and tasty! Read how to cook it and bake it boldly, especially since it is very easy to do.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Pork baked in foil in the oven always turns out to be soft, juicy and tender. Foil is a wonderful invention; it is thin metallic paper. It allows you to get the taste of dishes close to those cooked on a fire, coals, in a Russian oven and ash. Moreover, all this can be done at normal home conditions. Food foil does not oxidize or wash, it is compact and lightweight - in general, only advantages. You can cook any kind of meat in this kitchen assistant: pork, beef, lamb, etc. Meat cooked in this way will taste close to stew, while there is no smell and fat released during stewing.
As for this recipe, absolutely any part of the pork carcass can be used for baking. For this dish, the shoulder blade, neck, knee, and back are perfect. It is preferable to choose not very fatty pieces, while a thin layer of fat is present. Then the meat will come out more juicy.
The specific cooking time in foil may vary depending on the set temperature in the oven. If you turn on 350 degrees, then meat weighing 1 kg will be ready in 20-30 minutes. If the frypot is heated to 200 ° C, then 1-1.5 hours are needed for a kilo of pork in one piece.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 268 kcal.
- Servings - 1 piece
- Cooking time - about 2 hours
Ingredients:
- Pork neck - 1-1.5 kg
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a couple of pinches
- Garlic - head
- Dried basil - 1 tablespoon
- Any spices and spices to taste
Cooking baked pork in foil
1. Wash the meat and dry it dry. Use a sharp and long knife to make deep punctures, or better transverse cuts. This will allow the herb and spice aromas to evenly soak through the meat.
Peel the garlic. Cut large cloves into pieces so that the pieces are no more than 1 cm.
2. In the cuts and punctures made on the meat, place the cloves of garlic. Try to place them as deep as possible. In a separate container, combine salt, ground pepper and any spices.
3. Spread the spices on all sides of the meat and leave to rest for 15-20 minutes so that they penetrate deep into the fibers.
4. Place the meat on a piece of foil and sprinkle with basil leaves. Wrap the piece of meat hermetically in foil. If the sheet is thin, then fold it in two layers. Wrap the meat without tension, loosely so as not to tear. Then gently squeeze it around the product so that it fits snugly. When heated, the bag will unfold and the foil will inflate, and during the baking process, juice should not flow out of it.
Put the prepared pork in a heated oven up to 200 ° С for 1, 5 hours. Determine the readiness of the meat by the folds on the foil, they will turn black. Part of the meat juice begins to burn, and this happens only after the meat is fully cooked.
5. Remove the finished pork from the foil and serve hot. But if it cools down, you will get a great boiled pork, which can be used as slices for sandwiches.
If the meat is baked in foil correctly, then it will turn out delicious and retain the maximum of useful substances. Then the dish will turn out to be healthier and healthier.
See also a video recipe on how to cook juicy pork in foil in the oven.
