How to cook ham

How to cook ham

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Ham - it a word is most often used when mean chicken legs with a hip. Boiled chicken ham - tasty, useful dietary meat which will be suitable both for the adult, and for the kids menu.

Instruction

1. That boiled ham turned out tasty, it is necessary to buy it in cooled, but not in the frozen look as in refrigerated meat much less useful substances, and it is unknown how many times it was exposed to repeated freezing. Good ham has to have thin and gentle skin, a meat bloom - gentle-pink or beige. When pressing it it has to restore an initial form quickly. Such fresh meat when cooking will turn out tasty and gentle.

2. Before cooking ham, it is necessary to defreeze it (if it was frozen) and to wash out carefully. Then to wipe a napkin, to put in a pan and to fill in with water with a stock in 2-3 cm. Put a pan on average fire.

3. If you want to receive not only boiled chicken meat, but also a nutrient broth, then salt water at the beginning of cooking - 1 tsp of salt on 1 l of water. If your purpose is to make only ham, then you salt water in 15 minutes after boiling of water in a pan.

4. To give to chicken quarter pleasant aroma, add to a pan after water boiling largely cut onions and carrots. It is possible to add garlic, spices to taste: pepper, a basil, Provence herbs, a marjoram, bay leaf (at your choice).

5. Chicken quarter cooks about 30-50 minutes. To check readiness, pierce meat a fork. If it soft and from it isn't allocated juice, so it is ready. Ready meat easily separates from bones.

6. Ham will turn out even more tasty and useful if to cook it in the multicooker. For this purpose it is necessary to wash out it and to fill in with water. Spices and vegetables in this case should be put in a multicooker bowl together with meat. It is necessary to cook ham on the Suppression mode of 30-40 minutes.

7. Boiled chicken quarter can be served as a main course with different garnishes (rice, buckwheat, potatoes and др). It is possible to decorate ham with greens or to sauce.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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