A few simple ways to cook

Pork shank dishes are very popularin the Czech Republic and Germany. In Russia many mistresses also give her due. After all, if you know how to prepare a ruler and various dishes from it, you can get not only a hearty, but also a very tasty dinner, which will be appreciated by both home and guests.

For starters, it's worth remembering that it's being prepared long enough, so you need to be patient, but the result will not disappoint.

One of the classic recipes of howcook the wheel, will be next. The product is washed, lightly cleaned with a knife (if there is a bristle on top to remove it). Next, the shank is put in a saucepan and filled with cold water, put on fire. After the boiling occurs, foam is removed from above (if formed), everything is slightly salted, put carrots, onions, bay leaves, spices (cumin, pepper, cloves, etc.), cleaned and cut into large pieces.

On low heat the dish is cooked for twohours, after which the shank is taken out and laid out on a baking sheet, covered with foil and put in a preheated oven to an average temperature, where it is baked for about half an hour. Half a glass of dark beer mixed with a tablespoon of sugar. From the prepared dish, foil is removed, it is put back in the oven for 20 minutes, and periodically (every 3-4 minutes) it is poured with the obtained mixture of beer and sugar. Preparing the shank before the formation of a crimson crust. The dish is served hot on the table, boiled vegetables can be used as a side dish to it.

There is the following recipe how to cookin the oven without cooking. To do this, a piece of pork (preferably with a thin layer of fat under the skin) is washed, if necessary, cleaned and dried using a paper towel. On the top of the shank, small oblique incisions are made, into which several pieces of carnation are inserted. From the bottom, deeper cuts are made (so that they get the "meaty" part), they insert cleaned cloves of garlic. The whole piece is rubbed with a mixture of salt and pepper, sprinkled with mustard, mixed with soy sauce, left in the refrigerator for the night. The next morning, the preparation of the rudder continues. It is sprinkled with crushed greenery, wrapped in foil and put on a baking sheet in the oven, heated to a minimum of 1.5-2 hours. After this time, the dish is removed foil, the temperature rises to 220 degrees, the shank is left to brown. You can serve it both cold and immediately from the oven, as a snack or a separate dish (in the latter case it is better to use garnish).

Talking about how to prepare a wheel, you can notremember the recipe of a roll from it, which is perfect for a festive table. If meat is taken in the market, then it is best to soak it in water for a while, then clean it and rinse it again well.

Poured a piece of cold water and put onFire. After boiling here put peeled onion, bell pepper, bay leaf. Cook the dish on a small fire for about 3 hours. It is important that the shank does not fall apart and does not lose its original appearance. The cooled piece is laid out on the cheesecloth, a cross-section is made, the bone is pulled out, and the meat unfolds in a layer. It is salted, peppered, sprinkled with chopped garlic, you can put stuffing here. For it, chopped herbs, mushrooms, prunes and many other things are used, for the taste and culinary preferences of the cooker.

Then a tight roll wrapped in gauze is rolled up. It is placed under the load in the refrigerator for several hours, after which it is cut into pieces and fed to the table.

Thus, almost all the recipes for how to cook the wheel do not require special skills and are fairly simple, however, they require a little more time than cooking conventional meat.