Italian Porcetta Recipe for a Holiday

porquette Perhaps the most common dish of Italian cuisine. For those who don't know, porketta is a spicy pork roll baked to a ruddy crust in the oven. At home. spicy cook both at home and at various fairs, festivals of street food and not only.

Italians often say, “No porquetta, no holiday!” And this is absolutely deserved, because the dish turns out to be incredibly tasty, juicy and appetizing.





Traditionally, Italians spend a whole pig carcass to cook one roll. But we don't need that much meat. Are we going to eat a whole pig? Therefore, our editors suggest preparing a roll for 5-6 portions.

Pork Roulette Recipe Ingredients
  • 1.5 kg pork spatula
  • 2 tbsp sage
  • 3 tbsp orange peel
  • 2 tbsp dill seeds
  • 2 tbsp rosemary
  • 6 cloves of garlic
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp ground pepper


Preparation
  1. Wash the pig spatula under a stream of water. Cut the meat along, but not to the end, but in such a way that you get a whole layer that can be wrapped in a roll.


  2. Make oblique incisions where the meat layer is thicker.


  3. Cooked meat is thoroughly salted and lubricated with olive oil.
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  4. On the one hand sprinkle a layer of meat with pepper, dill seeds, rosemary, sage, crushed garlic and orange peel.




  5. Roll a tight meatloaf.


  6. Tie the roll with a culinary string and send it to the refrigerator for at least 3 hours, preferably overnight.


  7. Place the roll in a deep form for baking, previously lubricating it with olive oil. Meat before baking should also be sprinkled with oil. Bake the porcettas in the oven for 20 minutes at 230 degrees. Then lower the temperature to 120 degrees and cook the roll for another 60 minutes.


  8. Cover the roll with foil and bake for another 10 minutes.




Be sure to prepare this nutritious dish so that the festive table will be remembered by all guests!