Salted pork from Ilia (pasto)

Name: How to cook Salted pork from Ilia (pasto) - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 kilos
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Cookpad Greece

Salted pork from Ilia (pasto)

An old recipe used in the villages in order to store the meat throughout the year. It is extremely delicious and a great meze!

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 kilos

1 kg

pork back (piece)

1 kg

pork belly (piece)

3 kg

pork fat (lard)

500 g

coarse salt

cinnamon stick

cloves

grains of pimento

to taste

black pepper according

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Place the pieces of meat in a strainer, thoroughly covering them with coarse salt.

* Step 2

Put the meat in the fridge and let it cure in the salt for 48 hours. Do not cover it.

* Step 3

When the 48 hours pass, shake off the salt and cut the meat in pieces as large as a medium orange.

* Step 4

Fill one large pot with water and boil the meat, taking care not to overboil it so that it falls apart.

* Step 5

Take the meat out of the pot, let it drain well in a strainer and leave the water of the pot to cool so that the fat floats to the surface.

* Step 6

Remove the fat with a sifter ladle and put it in a deep pot.

* Step 7

Cut the lard in pieces as large as a matchbox and place it in the pot with the rest of the fat.

* Step 8

Let it over medium heat so that the fat melts, until the pieces of lard brown enough and dry up.

* Step 9

Remove and discard them.

* Step 10

Always over medium heat, add the pieces of meat in the pot as well as the spices and fry until golden brown.

* Step 11

Let the meat and fat cool enough and store in sterilized jars covering the meat with its fat.

* Step 12

Every time you want a taste, take out some meat from the jars with as little fat as you possibly can and warm it in a frying pan cutting it into small pieces.

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