The knee baked in beer вепрево – the recipe of traditional Czech cuisine which not bad took root at the Russian culinary specialists. Pork shank (hough) is cooked long enough and demands from the hostess of certain cook skills. However there is a little patience – and the piece of quite rough gammon will turn into a magnificent dish.
How to prepare вепрево a knee for roasting
That in house conditions to prepare a pork knee in Czech, almost like in the well-known Prague pothouses, pick up fresh hough - a part of a hip and a shin, the knee joint has to be in the middle. For softening of shank and giving of juiciness to it needs to keep waiting raw materials. You need the following set of products:
- garlic (4 cloves);
- black fresh ground pepper (1 teaspoon);
- cooking resin of a rough grinding (2 teaspoons);
- parsley greens (1 bunch);
- celery greens (1 bunch);
- bay leaf (2-3 pieces);
- allspice peas (7-10 pieces);
- green sour apple (2 pieces);
- nutmeg and a root of ginger are a little;
- beer Czech (depending on the hough size).
Carefully wash out вепрево a knee in flowing water then blot it with tissues. Properly grate hough with pepper and salt, pounded garlic from all directions. Put in the enameled or glass capacity on a laying from chopped greens, spices and spicery.
Completely fill in pork with a dark Czech beer, then lower in liquid of a quarter of apples without peel and cores. Pickle meat in cold (but by no means on a frost!) within a day then turn shank and keep it in marinade of 4-5 more h.
We bake вепрево a knee in Czech in an oven
Take out the kept waiting hough from a brine, scrub away seasonings and let's liquid flow down. According to the classical Czech recipe, the pork knee is preparing on a spit. Switch an oven to the grill mode, put a pallet for collecting the flowing-down meat fluid and cook shank 3 hours, periodically watering with the flown-down fat.
Several councils. That the pork knee was with a ruddy crust, grease meat with honey (half-glass), crude yolks (4 pieces) and a soy-bean sauce (2 tablespoons).
If you have no oven with function of a grill, put hough on a lattice. In the course of cooking surely regularly overturn pork.
It is possible to use also a form for roasting. Oil softened creamy or vegetable a deep pig-iron stewpan, put in it a pork knee and powder with onions rings. Fill in all with the Czech beer. Under the closed cover pork will be cooked by 1.5 h at a temperature 180oc, then 30 more min. to reach readiness in open ware.
Ready вепрево in Czech give a knee to a table hot with sauerkraut and a soy-bean sauce.