A delicious sandwich with herbs and homemade ham is a classic not only for a quick breakfast, but also for any snack. For home cooking, you can use a whole piece or minced meat, and even combine several types of meat products. Distinguish between boiled and baked ham. Each of them is prepared according to certain rules.
How to cook ham at home
Homemade ham is a great alternative to store-bought balyk and sausages. However, cooking ham at home is a lengthy process, soaking about 3-4 days, although it takes only 2-3 hours to work directly with the products.
First of all, it is important to choose the right meat. Experts advise choosing pork for the ham, it is advisable to buy the ham from the back of the carcass, but you can use the brisket or neck. It is important that there are no cartilage in the piece that will interfere with cutting.
Before heat treatment, the meat must go through a stage of pickling or salting: this stage, as a rule, takes several days, since the piece of meat is usually large and is soaked for a long time with spices and liquid.
After pickling, it comes through baking, smoking or boiling, depending on what devices are available to the hostess. This is the shortest stage and requires the most attention.
In the end, it remains to keep the homemade ham in the refrigerator for several days or hours - this is determined by the specific recipe and the chosen method of heat treatment. After that, the ham is ready and can be used for its intended purpose: for snacks, sandwiches, for salads, etc.
Homemade ham in the oven is cooked, although not quickly, but simply, and the result is juicy and tasty meat. Each recipe for making ham at home has its own subtleties and nuances. When making this product, it is important for the hostess to know several basic conditions that determine the final result:
- Ham is not a boiled product, therefore it must be cooked at a temperature not exceeding 85 ° C.
- To make quality homemade ham, experts recommend buying chilled meat.
- Homemade ham has a short shelf life. After all, this product is made only from meat, and there are no harmful additives and preservatives in it. Therefore, try to cook the volume of the product for 2-3 days.
- A little professional trick for making ham: if you don't have a ham maker and you couldn't find a can of canned food, use a split cake mold.
Homemade pork ham in the oven
You will need:
- pork leg - 700 grams;
- vegetable oil - 3-4 tablespoons;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- salt to taste;
- seasonings - optional.
To cook homemade ham in the oven, you can take both pork ham and the neck or shoulder part. Choose a whole piece of meat, in this case a fat-free ham. If you get fat, carefully trim it and rinse it in cold running water.
Grate the prepared piece of meat on all sides with pepper, salt, and your favorite seasonings. Next, generously grease its surface with sunflower oil, rub the seasonings and oil into the meat with your hands.
Place the meat on the center of the baking paper. If the paper is not coated with food grade silicone, be sure to grease it with sunflower oil so that it does not stick to the meat during the baking process. Wrap the meat in paper, making it look like an envelope.
Tie the envelope with threads or special silicone ties. Put the envelope in the refrigerator to rest for at least an hour, or better overnight, if time permits.
Remove the meat from the refrigerator in the morning, place on a baking sheet or any other suitable baking dish and place in the cold oven. Set the heating temperature in it to 200 ° C and bake this piece directly in the envelope for 35 minutes.
If your piece is less than 700 grams in weight, then it will take less time. If the weight is more, then accordingly it will take more time for baking. Calculate it yourself in proportion to the weight.
After the right time has passed, gently turn the meat over in an envelope and bake for another 35 minutes. Then turn off the oven, but do not take out the meat, let it stand and cool in the oven.
Then transfer the cooled meat to a plate, cut. You will see how much liquid came out of it during the baking process. Homemade ham cooked in the oven according to this recipe turns out to be juicy and tender, well cut into thin slices and very tasty both by itself and as part of other dishes.
Homemade chicken ham in the oven
Pork is still considered a rather heavy product, so the most dietary option for such a delicious homemade dish like ham is chicken ham. Its calorie content will be only 1569 kcal.
The meat will be cooked chopped, since even the chicken breast does not have enough volume to be consumed whole, but this will not affect the taste in any way. To obtain the desired density of the product, experts recommend adding gelatin to the product, and you do not need to soak it in advance.
It is advisable to choose the meat itself from different parts: it is necessary to add the meat of the legs to the dry breast - this way the ham will turn out to be not too high-calorie, but rather juicy. Cooking homemade ham according to this recipe will take a day and about 2 hours of work.
You will need:
- chicken meat from different parts of the poultry - 800 grams;
- garlic cloves - 3 pcs.;
- gelatin - 10 g;
- dry herbs - 1 tbsp. l.;
- any seasoning for chicken - 1 tsp;
- salt - 1 tsp
Step by step cooking process
Prepare chicken meat. Peel off fat and films from it, rinse well and cut with a knife across the fibers, so the ham will turn out juicier. Place in a deep container.
Peel the cloves and squeeze through a press. Combine salt, garlic and seasonings with the meat, mix well with your hands. Sprinkle dry gelatin and your preferred herbs over the meat.
A small amount of turmeric is allowed, it will give the finished chicken ham an appetizing golden hue. Stir the meat again and leave to marinate for half an hour.
Fill the resulting meat base for the ham in a special baking bag or sleeve tied at the bottom. Form a regular cylinder out of it, put a tin can or a suitable pipe on top, so that your ham gets its shape.
Tie the other end of the sleeve or bag. Place the future ham on a baking sheet for the oven and bake the meat for 65 minutes at 200 ° C, periodically turning the jar or pipe on opposite sides.
After the end of baking, let the cooked ham cool with the jar right in the oven. And also in the jar, remove the product to cool the next day in the refrigerator. Then take out the ham, empty all the bags and use for snacks or other dishes.
Homemade turkey ham with beef in the oven
Cooking time for homemade turkey ham with beef is approximately 2 hours. The calorie content of the dish is low, since turkey is a dietary product.
You will need:
- turkey fillet - 500 grams;
- beef fillet - 700 grams;
- carrots - 200 grams;
- bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- small onion - 1 pc.;
- cloves of garlic - 2 pcs.;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - 2 tbsp. l.;
- ground pepper to taste.
Cooking process in stages
Cut the beef into small pieces and twist the turkey fillet until smooth. Peel and chop the onion, grate the garlic cloves on a fine grater. Cut the carrots and peppers into strips.
Twist all the products with a blender for about half a minute and combine in a deep bowl, add spices and salt, let the mixture stand for about an hour to impregnate the meat with aromas.
Stir the egg into the minced meat and fill the ham with this mass. You need to put a package in it in advance. Tamp the meat filling and tie the bag. Slip on a ham maker.
Place it on a baking sheet and pour 1 glass of water there. Place the whole structure in the oven and bake for 30 minutes at 220 ° C, then lower the temperature and for the next 35 minutes the ham should be baked at 170 ° C.
After the time has elapsed, let the food cool completely in the oven before opening the ham and homemade ham. Serve cold.
Homemade chopped ham in the oven
This recipe will take three and a half days to make the ham. But thanks to the special aroma, this option is quite popular with housewives. Chopped ham at home differs from the classic one, but its taste is not inferior to it.
Thanks to the fine cutting of meat, it takes less time for heat treatment here, and an interesting and beautiful mosaic effect is obtained on the cut. If you use dry herbs and even some predominantly hard vegetables, you can emphasize this feature even more. If desired, in this recipe, you can combine several types of meat.
You will need:
- pork neck - 1, 2 kg;
- water - 1.5 l;
- salt - 120 g;
- carnation buds - 3 pcs.;
- aromatic herbs to taste;
- vodka - 30 ml.
Cooking step by step
Prepare a warm pickle first and place a piece of pork in it. Put it in a cool place for a day. After a day, remove the meat and cut into cubes. Add vodka to it, add aromatic herbs. Leave the meat to marinate for another day.
After that, put the pork on foil, roll up a roll and form a cylinder out of it, wrap it with thread and fix it. Send the meat to bake for 1 hour in the oven at 200 ° C.
After this time, transfer the meat to a saucepan, without removing the foil from it, cover with water and cook the ham for another 4 hours, maintaining a constant water temperature of 70 ° C.
At the end of the process, pour cold water over the ham, let it cool at room temperature and refrigerate for 24 hours. Then open the cooked ham, cut and serve. If you like, you can eat it hot as soon as cooking is over.
