Salo is traditionally considered a cold snack. It is either cut in the usual form into plastics or planed from a piece frozen in the freezer. But at the same time in the form of a hot dish - fried or baked - it is extremely tasty and elegant. For example, lard in the oven is considered an excellent delicacy from the meat category, which can easily compete with other delights on the table.
How to cook
The advantage of this product is the fact that it is fat. So, in the process of baking, the fat from it will be filled up, and the piece will not be dry. However, in order not to spoil the taste of the dish itself, which should melt in the mouth, it is necessary to take into account a number of simple recommendations. It:
- Choosing fresh bacon - you need to take freshly purchased chilled shmatok, no options frozen or salted will give the desired effect.
- The best product to choose from is the young pig. An excellent indicator of its quality will be a white hue, the maximum it can be pink (slightly-slightly). Also, such fat may have a thin skin, it is also called tender.
- Certain issues cause streaks of meat in such a product. They are found thin, but there are a little bit thicker - there is an amateur and the taste of the hostess. It is important to note that the fat in the piece should be present more than the meat parts.
- You need to choose different spices - with them the dish will be more saturated and original.
Various Recipes
There are quite a few recipes for cooking fat in the oven - starting with basic ones, ending with various complex dishes with their own raisins. You can choose different ones. But in the beginning it is worth mastering the basic recipes.
Recipe in foil with mustard
This variant of a tasty experiment is distinguished by its original spicy taste and a certain egg. To create this will require:
- A piece of bacon - half a kilogram
- Salt, preferably large - 2 tablespoons
- Black pepper - to taste
- Garlic - a pair of cloves
- Laurel - 2-3 pcs.
- Mustard - 2 tbsp. l
- Black pepper peas - 4 pcs.
First you need to clean the skin from hairs and other contaminants, since it will not be removed. After the piece is washed and cut in half. Garlic is recommended to cut the chalk or skip through a press, Lavrushka to break into pieces. In fat, make small cuts and fill them with prepared garlic and lavrushka. Separately mix salt, pepper in a container - this will be a mixture for falling.
It remains only to rub it with mustard. further lard will marinate for about an hour. After each piece must be wrapped in foil. Put the product must be baked in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Cooking time about an hour. Next you need to put it to cool, and then send to cool in a cold place for a couple of hours. Serve to the table should be in the form of thinly sliced.
Delicate fat in the sleeve
Fat in the sleeve is one of the basic recipes. This option will require:
- Salo - 1 kg
- Garlic - 1 head
- Salt and pepper (black and red powder)
First you need to disassemble the garlic in cloves and crush them. Pepper and salt are mixed together. A piece of bacon is washed, dried (it is best to choose paper towels for this). Over the entire surface of the shmatka it is necessary to make cuts and stuff it with garlic. Then a piece of the workpiece must be rubbed with pepper and tied with a thread from different sides. For marinating it should be put in a cold place. There to withstand a couple of hours. After marinating, the piece should be placed in a sleeve and clamped on both sides. After harvesting, you need to move to a baking sheet and send it to a preheated oven (180 degrees will suffice) for at least 40-60 minutes. The end time is directly determined by which layer of meat the meatball has - the wider it is, the longer the process takes. After you have to open the sleeve and leave the dish in the oven for a little bit - 10 minutes is enough. This will allow him to get a pleasant and delicious golden color. Serve this dish as an independent snack, as well as hot to various side dishes.
Potatoes with bacon in the oven, you will lick your fingers
An excellent option would be the addition of vegetables. Usually, potatoes are taken for this purpose. To prepare this dish will require:
- Potatoes - 1 kg
- Onion - 1 pc. medium size
- Smoked pork fat or regular - 200 g
- Vegetable oil - a couple of spoons
- Spices and spices - to taste
The potatoes must be peeled and cut into thin round slices. After it must be placed in a bowl, pour spices. Add vegetable oil to the potatoes and mix well. Then turn the fat. It should be cut into slices or straws. Peel the onions and cut into rings. Preheat the oven beforehand (as usual the temperature should be around 200 degrees).
Put potatoes on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, then bacon. Allowed and vice versa. Prepare the dish for about 30 minutes. It is necessary to focus on readiness as potatoes - when it becomes soft, you can get it and put it on the plates.
Potato roll
The original snack is obtained in this version. To prepare you need to take:
- Salo with sandpaper - 0.5 kg (the skin is better thin)
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Parsley fresh - 5 g
- Mashed potatoes - 200-300 g
- Salt and various seasonings to taste
The piece must be thoroughly washed and dried, the fat part removed from the skin, and so that the mat does not become damaged. Garlic must be crushed under the press, chopped parsley. Shmatok rubbed with spices and crushed garlic with parsley on both sides. Spread mashed potatoes over it. It remains only to roll the billet into a roll and pack into the skin. Then it must be fastened with threads so that nothing will move out. The roll should be placed in the sleeve and firmly fastened on both sides - this will save the juice. It is desirable to make a series of holes in the film - this will allow steam to be removed and not damage the structure.
The oven should be heated to 180 degrees, the cooking time is an hour. By the way, you can not put potatoes. Allowed to serve roll in addition to boiled potatoes or all the same mashed potatoes. The roll is cut into thin slices. On a plate, this dish looks festive.
Original fat in the pot in the oven
The original recipe, which came to us from the ancestors. After all, foil, hoses, and ovens were not yet widely available. To make snacks you will need:
- Salo - 1 kg
- Condiments different - 5 g
- Garlic - 5 pieces of cloves
- Salt, pepper
Fat to create this dish should be cut into cubes and rub all of them with spices and garlic, pressed under the pressure. You can simply stuff the bacon, making cuts in it. Pieces need to be spread on banks and cover them with foil caps. Put the jars in the oven is not heated. You need to bake about an hour, while the oven should be set to 150-160 degrees. After turning off the fire, you have to wait for the oven to cool completely - then you can get the cans.
Salo with mayonnaise
Fat seasoned with mayonnaise, many may call the death of the liver and pancreas. Moreover, if you indulge in such a delicacy infrequently, then you can get great pleasure from it. For cooking will require:
- Fat with meat layer - 0, 5 kg
- Salt - 1 tbsp. l
- Paprika - 0.5 st. l
- Bay Leaf
- Mayonnaise - 100 g
- Dill
- Garlic to taste
Shmatok should be washed and dried, and then stuffed with garlic and spices. It is allowed to cut into pieces, and can be baked whole. Garlic must be pushed through the press and mixed with the sauce, then this mixture should be rubbed with lard and marinated for about an hour. At this time, preheat the oven (benchmark - 200 degrees). The piece is wrapped in foil. Bake it should be about 45 minutes. There is such a product can be both hot and chilled.
Lard baked with adjika
For such a sharp and original dishes are needed:
- Fat - 2 kg
- Adjika (you can choose the one you like more) - 300 g
- Salt
To prepare a piece, as in many other recipes, coat it with adzhika and leave it under pressure for a couple of days. Salt it before baking. Bake the product should be in a preheated to 220 degrees oven for about 20 minutes. After you get it out of the cabinet, smear it with melted fat.
Potato harmonica with bacon in the oven
Very interesting will be a dish in the form of potato-harmonicas. To prepare you need to take:
- Long oblong potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Fat - 100 g
- Salt, pepper, ground paprika - to taste
In the beginning it is necessary to heat the oven. The optimum temperature is 200 degrees. Shmatok worth pre-freeze - so it will be better to cut into smooth and not thick plastics. Potatoes should be well washed, because the skin does not have to be removed. Each fruit should be cut across at the same distance. Fat should be placed in these incisions. All salt and pepper, pour spices. Potatoes should be put in the cupboard for 45 minutes. And here it is important to understand that the better the potato is baked, the more tasty it is.
Salted bacon in the oven
If you really want a tasty snack, but there is no fresh piece, you can retreat from the rules and take a salty one. For this dish will require:
- Salted lard - 1 kg
- Salt - to taste
- Black Pepper
- Garlic - about 8 cloves
- Bay Leaf
- Baking paper
It will take a couple of hours to prepare such a dish. Fat should be cut into plastics of about 3 cm, rub with salt and pepper. Lavrushka and garlic halves should be laid out on baking paper. Then on this construction it is necessary to place the fat, and then again garlic and bay leaf. So you need to do with the existing slices. Wrap the entire structure and send it to the oven at 200 degrees.
Baked bacon is easy to prepare, but the snack is very popular and loved. Of course, you can not eat such a dish often. But it is possible to cook periodically.
