Recipe for homemade pork ham in a ham maker Culinary blog of Alexander Afanasyev

Homemade pork ham recipe
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Many people love ham.
This is a familiar meat product that resembles sausage. However, the ham recipe uses larger cuts of meat. You can make sandwiches with ham or serve it with any side dish. Overall, this is a great dish that both kids and adults will love. Many housewives prefer to prepare most dishes with their own hands, rather than buying them ready-made in the store. There are reasons for this:

We know for sure that we put fresh ingredients in our dish;
We carefully monitor the conditions and periods of its storage;
Dishes prepared at home always taste better;
Of course, it’s just interesting and exciting for us to cook a variety of dishes on our own.

How to cook ham at home

Have you decided to surprise your family and cook ham at home? To do this, it is not at all necessary to have specialized equipment, since this dish is easy to make in the oven. But this process is not so fast - the housewife herself needs to spend literally a few hours on everything, the meat must sit for another 3-4 days.

The basic algorithm is as follows:

First you should choose the meat. Pork is best, and the ham is the best choice, but you can also use the brisket and neck. The main thing is that there is no cartilage or bones in the meat.
Before heat treatment, the meat must be salted or marinated: this stage can take 3-4 days, since the meat absorbs liquid for a long time.
After this, the meat is baked or boiled - just choose the appropriate method.
All that remains is to cool the product and keep it for several hours or days (depending on the method) in the refrigerator.

Now you just need to cut the ham into pieces and serve it, use it for making salads, etc.

Required Ingredients

Even if there are no holidays planned for the near future, sometimes you also need to please your family with unusual, delicious dishes. For this you will need the following food products:

200 grams of ham to your taste;
100 grams of hard cheese;
2 chicken eggs;
1 fresh medium sized cucumber;
half a leek;
sauce to your taste;
fresh herbs;
spices to taste.

How to cook in a ham maker

Cooking time: 7 hours.

Calorie content: 250 kcal per 100 g.

If you have equipment such as a ham maker on hand, then the number of dishes with which you can please your loved ones increases dramatically. Now you don’t need to buy boiled pork or meat rolls - all this can be done at home.

Let's see how to cook delicious ham, for this you will need the following ingredients:

350 g combined minced meat;
300 g pork ham;
300 g beef;
10 g milk powder;
4 cloves of garlic;
1 large egg;
salt and seasonings for meat.

The cooking principle is as follows:

The meat must be chopped into pieces no larger than 1 cm in size and mixed with all other ingredients.
Place the baking sleeve filled with meat mixture into the ham maker.
Pack tightly.
Tie the sleeve and secure the equipment cover according to the instructions.
Place the ham dish in a saucepan and add water.
Cook for 90 minutes over low heat.
After cooking, take out the ham maker and after the mass has cooled, put it in the refrigerator for 5 hours, after which the finished meat can be served.

Chopped pork ham how to cook it at home

Before cooking, the meat should be rinsed well in cool water, cleaned of any veins and fat, and then patted dry.

Pork (shoulder) – 0.7 kg;
Pork belly – 0.3 kg;
Salt;
Garlic, dry or fresh;
Pepper;
0.1 liters of cold water.

Finely chop the brisket, not the fatty type of pork (shoulder), into large pieces. The fatty part of the meat should be one third of the total weight of the meat;
Salt the meat. Salt is taken at the rate of 15 g per 1 kg of meat;
Place everything in a deep bowl and fill with cool water. The meat mixture must be mixed by hand for 15-20 minutes. The resulting minced meat should be homogeneous and slightly sticky;
Place the mixture in cellophane and wait for it to be ready in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. After 3 days, we take out the meat. It should become a rich red color;
Add dry or chopped fresh garlic, pepper and any spices you like. Mix the mixture thoroughly with your hands and leave in the cold for another 2 hours;
The finished mass will need to be placed in a special casing bag for preparing sausages and ham; it can be purchased at the store;
Immerse the shell in water for a few minutes to soften;
Now you need to fill the shell bag with meat. For convenience, you can use the attachment in a meat grinder. If there is no such device, then the casing can be stuffed manually, in this case forming small sausages;
Now you need to cook the sausages. Place in cold water on the stove and cook for 3 hours at 50 degrees. Then increase by 30 degrees and cook for another hour, provided that the sausages are small. If necessary, increase the time by half an hour.

The chopped pork ham is ready, all that remains is to cool it and serve it.

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How to make ham without a ham maker at home

If you don't have the necessary equipment, don't worry - you can cook ham without it. Let's look at the most famous options.

In the bank

Cooking time: 180 minutes plus 1 day.

Calorie content: 389 kcal.

For this recipe, you need to use minced meat, since it will not only give the final dish an attractive appearance, but it will also not take as long to cook as a whole piece of meat. The jar should be tin, 1 liter in volume.

The ingredients are as follows:

500 g minced beef;
1 kg pork ham;
1 tsp dry herbs and spices;
8 g gelatin;
1 tbsp. paprika;
2 tbsp. salt.

The recipe is as follows:

Finely chop the meat and mix with minced meat.
Salt, add seasonings, salt and gelatin.
After 90 minutes, mix and wrap in cling film to form a cylinder.
Place it in a jar and place it on the bottom of the pan.
Fill with water up to the sides.
Cook for two hours.
After the container has cooled, put it in the refrigerator for a day.

If you couldn't find a tin suitable for cooking ham, you can use a removable cake pan.

In a juice carton

Cooking time: 600 minutes (10 hours).

Calorie content of the dish: 243 kcal.

The taste of such ham will be no worse than that of meat cooked in a ham maker.

Moreover, the meat can be any kind, but if you take pork, you don’t have to use gelatin, since such meat gels on its own due to the large amount of fat.

Ingredients:

900 g meat;
1 clove of garlic;
15 g gelatin;
1 tbsp each salt and paprika;
ground pepper.

The cooking method is as follows:

We cut half of the meat into pieces, and grind the rest through a meat grinder.
Add spices, salt, gelatin. Moreover, you need to mix as thoroughly as possible so that the bulk components are well distributed throughout the mass.
Cut off the top of the juice bag, place the meat there, and compact it.
Place it on the bottom of the pan, pour water into it so that there is about 5 cm left to the top of the bag.
Cover with a lid and cook for 80 minutes on low heat.
When the mixture is ready, it needs to be cooled and then put in the refrigerator for a day.

Recipe for homemade ham in a pork ham maker

The main benefit of making your own ham is that you get to choose your favorite spices. You don’t need to adapt to the manufacturer - you make your favorite product for yourself.

Required Ingredients

To prepare ham in a ham maker according to our recipe, you will need the following products:

Pork – 2 kilograms;
Salt – 2 tablespoons;
Garlic – 4 cloves;
Ground ginger – 1/3 tablespoon;
Coriander – ½ teaspoon;
Allspice and black pepper (ground) - 0.5 teaspoon each;
Rosemary (fresh) – ½ tablespoon;
Paprika – 1/3 tablespoon;
Cumin – ½ teaspoon.

Choose pork from the meat part of the carcass. With this amount of ingredients you can prepare homemade ham for 20 servings.

Recipe for homemade ham in a pork ham maker

Cooking process

It all depends on how the meat was prepared correctly, so follow our step-by-step instructions:

Wash the meat thoroughly under running water, dry it and process it a little with a knife. It is necessary to remove various films and excess fat. After this, cut the pork into small pieces.
Place approximately 2/3 of the chopped meat in a deep bowl and begin to marinate. Add all the salt to the pork, as well as all the seasonings and spices, with the exception of garlic. Mix thoroughly - it is advisable to do this with clean hands. It is necessary that each piece of meat receives its own portion of seasonings and salt.
After this, seal the bowl with cling film and place in the refrigerator for at least 60 minutes.
At this time we will deal with the remaining pork. We cut the peeled garlic cloves into 2-3 parts and pass them through a meat grinder together with the meat. Add the resulting minced meat to the bowl with the main part of the meat when we take it out of the refrigerator after an hour.
It is necessary to thoroughly mix the minced meat and marinated pieces of meat. This can be done manually or using a mixer with special attachments.
Next, take the ham dish and cover it inside with cling film or a bag. Then we begin to place the meat in it, compacting it tightly along the bottom and walls. When all the pork has been distributed, we pack the film on top and close the ham maker with a lid.
We compress the springs on our device and place it in a pan of water. The liquid should completely cover the meat. Place on medium heat and cook for two and a half hours. When the water approaches boiling, the heat needs to be reduced - it is advisable that the temperature be kept within 85–90 degrees.
When 2.5 hours have passed, take out the ham maker and place it in cold water for literally 5 minutes. Then, without unpacking, place the almost finished ham in the refrigerator for 10–12 hours.

When you take the ham out of the ham maker and unpack it, it should be firm - an excellent pork recipe as a cold appetizer for a holiday table or for morning sandwiches with tea.

Recipes for cooking ham with different types of meat

Beef

Preparation: 180 minutes plus two days.

Calorie content: 280 kcal.

When preparing this dish, you need to remember that there are several conditions that must be met in order to get the perfect product in the end. First of all, you need to add salt using a syringe. The second point is that the meat should stand in brine for at least three, but not more than seven days.

Ingredients:

1.5 kg beef;
100 g salt;
1 liter of water;
ground pepper.

First you need to boil water and add seasonings and salt, turning it off after a couple of minutes.

Then take the resulting brine into a syringe, make punctures in a piece of meat and pour liquid into it (it is desirable that the depth of insertion of the syringe needle be uniform throughout the entire piece).

Transfer the piece of meat into a suitable container and pour in the remaining brine, cover with film and place in the refrigerator for two days.

After the specified time, take it out, roll the beef into a roll, and tie it up. Pour in fresh water and cook for about three hours. All that remains is to cool the ham and you can serve it to the table.

From the knuckle

Preparation time: 7-8 days.

Calorie content: 359 kcal.

This ham will turn out fattier than when prepared from pork ham, but it will hold its shape even without the use of gelatin.

We will need the following ingredients:

1 pork knuckle;
50 g salt;
4 cloves of garlic;
1 tsp black pepper

First you need to rinse the knuckle and dry it thoroughly using paper towels. If you don't do this, the ham will not have a crust. Rub the meat with coarse salt on top, wrap it in cotton cloth, put a bag on top (you need to let the air out of it and then tie it tightly).

Place in the refrigerator for at least 7 days, and it is very important to turn the knuckle over every day. After a week, remove the meat, cover it with water and leave for 8 hours. After this, remove the bones from the shank, rub the meat with garlic, salt and pepper. Roll so that the skin of the knuckle is on top. Wrap the meat in film, tighten with thread, and cook in water over low heat for 3 hours. Let the meat cool and cut into thin pieces.

From pork

Preparation time: 24 hours.

Calorie content: 369 kcal.

Cooking ham using this method is very simple, since all you need is a large and high-quality piece of meat, a large saucepan, and strong cooking string. The ham will turn out tasty, aromatic, piquant.

The following products are needed:

1.5 pork ham;
60 g coarse salt;
2.5 liters of water;
Bay leaf;
black allspice;
5 cloves of garlic.

The cooking recipe is as follows:

We wash the meat, remove excess moisture with paper napkins, and rub the top with salt.
Cool for 7-8 hours.
Roll it up into a roll and tie it with thread.
Boil water, put the ham there and cook for an hour over medium heat.
Throw salt, pepper, garlic into the water.
After this, put the meat in the refrigerator for 10 hours.
We don’t pour out the brine - in the morning you need to boil it, then put the pork in water, boil for about an hour, and wait until it cools down again.

All you have to do is take out the ham, wait until it cools down, and you can serve it.

Chicken

Preparation time: 100 minutes plus 1 day.

Calorie content of the product: 150 kcal.

Ham made from chicken will be the most dietary, and to make the meat more dense, you should use gelatin. And so that the ham does not turn out dry, you need to take both the breast and other parts of the bird.

Ingredients:

800 g chicken meat;
dry herbs, salt, chicken seasonings;
3 cloves of garlic;
10 g gelatin.

Cooking method:

Remove the skin and fat from the meat, cut along the grain, which will allow you to get a juicier ham.
Mix with salt, seasonings, garlic (you can take a small amount of turmeric, which will give the ham a golden hue).
Leave for 3-40 minutes.
We fill the “sleeve” with meat, form it into a cylinder, and put a tube on top (this will allow the finished product to not lose its shape).
Place the meat on a baking sheet and bake at 200 degrees for an hour, turning the jar over.
We wait for the meat to cool down and put it in the refrigerator for a day, after which the dish can be served.

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Chicken ham

Chicken ham at home is easy to prepare and economical in ingredients. How to cook chicken ham is described below.

For this you will need:

chicken fillet - 1 pc.;
vodka - 1 tbsp. l.;
honey -1 tsp;
nutmeg (ground);
black pepper (ground);
garlic - 1 clove;
salt.

This ham can be made from a chicken breast consisting of 2 halves. To marinate meat, you need to rub it with salt, honey, vodka, add nutmeg and black pepper. The meat should be marinated for 2-3 days. It is recommended to control the amount of honey, as the ham will turn out too sweet if there is too much honey.

After the marinating time has passed, remove the chicken breast, dry it with paper towels and rub with the garlic that was passed through the press. Then wrap the sausage-shaped meat in cheesecloth and tie with twine or silicone laces.

Next, cooking can be continued in the slow cooker. To do this, a chicken breast wrapped in gauze should be placed in a special baking bag and packaged securely, having previously released all remaining air from the bag.

Fill the multicooker pan with cold water and immerse the package in it, after which you need to set the “stew” mode and wait until the temperature rises to 70°C. When this happens, you need to turn on the “warm” mode, in which the breast will cook for about 40 minutes.

If you don’t have a slow cooker, you can make the ham in an ordinary saucepan on the stove. To do this, you will need the container itself and a thermometer to monitor the temperature. As with a slow cooker, the pan is filled with cold water and the packaged meat is placed in it. After which the water must be brought to 70-80°C and maintained at this temperature for 40 minutes.

When the time required for cooking has passed, the ham should be transferred from a saucepan with hot water to a previously prepared container filled with cold water and ice. She should stay there for about an hour. This is done so that the meat becomes denser and juicier due to the temperature difference.

After the required hour has passed, the dish can be served. Homemade chicken ham differs from store-bought chicken in its natural aroma and delicate taste, and it is also known for certain what is included in its composition. Bon appetit!

Some tips

If you want to make delicious homemade ham, you should remember a few basic conditions that housewives simply do not know about:

Ham is not a cooked dish, so the cooking temperature should not be higher than 85 degrees.
It is best to take chilled meat.
Since no preservatives are used when preparing the product at home, the maximum shelf life of ham is 3 days, you should prepare the amount of ham that you can use.

Cooking ham is a fairly simple process, although it takes time, but the dish will turn out tasty and environmentally friendly.

How to make pita rolls with ham?

Traditionally, these fried pita rolls are prepared in an egg wash with the addition of a large amount of butter. As for the filling, it can be varied according to your taste. We will look at the most common recipe. You need to take thin classic pita bread and cut it into strips approximately 5-8 centimeters wide. Hard cheese should also be chopped into thin strips. You can grate it on a Korean carrot grater.

Then you need to cut the ham into circles, then these pieces are cut into halves. After this, you need to put the crushed ingredients into each part of the sliced lavash. And then you should roll it into a roll. Now you need to make the egg filling. To prepare it, you need to beat a chicken egg and add finely chopped parsley (it tastes better with curly parsley). Dip the resulting rolls into the prepared filling and fry them in butter until golden brown. A delicious snack is ready. It is best to serve the rolls hot. Many people prefer to make them for breakfast.