How to cook a holiday pig in the oven? On New Year, a whole baked piglet seems a culinary feat. But this is only at first glance. Our recipe for baked pig very simple. Follow technology, use seasonings, original jewelry. Let them make a smart couple for the New Year dish beautiful rowan.
This recipe is more suitable for cooking large piglets. Small – about 2 kg is better to cook a little differently. About this in another recipe.
How to cook a holiday pig in the oven
Refuse to even think about excess calories! After all, the New Year is holiday food. Housewives ponder the festive menu ahead of time. how to choose a piglet for baking? After all, the dish is a special, status. Fresh carcass is checked by ordinary puncture – the liquid must not be brown, and red, scarlet or pink. Frozen it is better to take the pig from a reliable supplier – so that there is little ice and the appearance nice.
To bake a piglet you will need:
- Piglet – weight from 3-4kg.
If the pig is larger, and there are fears that the carcass will not fit in oven, you can put it diagonally, substituting under the abdomen some capacity.
- Spices: coriander, garlic, garlic oil, pepper, thyme.
DIY garlic oil: add to regular vegetable oil chopped cloves of garlic.
- Mountain ash, greens – for decoration.
You can cook a holiday pig in the oven So:
To pork absorb the aroma of spices, leave gutted marinate the carcass for at least 2 hours. Rub with salt, garlic oil, you can use balsamic vinegar. Delicious add coriander and thyme to the oil. Culinary flair you are not let you down, experiment!
Make an incision along the inside of the spine if the pig is large. Pour some water (salted) on a baking sheet and place piglet on the back. To first bake well inside side. The temperature in the oven is about 150 °. Enough hours to the meat was completely baked from the inside.
Turn the carcass over, rub it again with a mixture of spices and pork fat, cover the ears and the patch with pieces of foil (so as not to burn too much). Add “fire” by increasing the temperature to 180 °.
How to understand whether meat is ready or not? Pierce the carcass and look at the juice. It should be transparent.
Tasty ideas
Decorate the holiday piglet with bunches of mountain ash. It looks amazingly beautiful. Clusters can be prepared in advance at freezer. They do not lose neither qualities nor beauty. Does not grow with you Rowan? No problem. Cherry twigs, and even grape vines bunches of grapes. Skillful housewives cleverly pickle them (like tomatoes) for such case. Tasty and original flavored snack. A little zeal require roses from potatoes. The recipe is described in detail in section “Carving”.
