Baked suckling pig is a wonderful tender and exquisite festive dish, if you have the opportunity to cook it, be sure to use it. This infrequent delicacy for us will be a real culinary "bomb" on the festive table.
Tell you how to cook a suckling piglet in the oven entirely.
Pig pick fresh, such that it fits on the regular baking tray of your oven.
The recipe for making a suckling pig
Ingredients:
- a suckling pig weighing about 3 kg;
For marinade:
- white or pink Martini (no worse than "Bouquet of Moldova") - 100 ml;
- a mixture of dry freshly ground spices (nutmeg, black and red hot pepper, sweet paprika, coriander, fennel, cumin);
- lemon - 0,5 pieces;
- orange - 0.5 pcs. (or 1 clementine);
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- sugar - 1 teaspoon;
- butter - 20 g;
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- vinegar wine balsamic - 2 tsp.
- mustard ready Russian - 3 tsp.
- salt.
Preparation
Of course, the pig's carcass should be gutted, scorched over open fire, cleaned with a knife, thoroughly washed and dried with a napkin. Next, the pig should be marinated, then the meat will become especially soft and tender.
Marinade for a suckling pig
Squeeze juice from lemon and orange, mix with wine and vinegar, add spices, salt, olive oil, melted cream little, mustard, salt, sugar and garlic. All carefully mix and leave for 20 minutes, then strain the sauce through a strainer (if this is not done, the remaining particles of garlic can burn under baking).
The gutted piglet is plentifully coated with marinade inside and out and left for 2 hours. Before baking, repeat the coating.
Inside the pig's carcass you need to put an empty clean glass bottle of the appropriate size, it is better to wrap it with foil (do not close the stopper). This technique will help the carcass keep the shape during cooking.
We start to warm up the oven.
We prepare the prepared piglet on a greased baking sheet heated with a back up. Piglet, hooves, ears, tail brush abundantly with heated butter and pack it with pieces of foil - so as not to burn.
How to bake a suckling pig in the oven?
Bake a whole pig in the oven for 1.5 hours, a temperature of about 200 degrees.
Baked dairy piglet is served well with stewed young string beans and boiled rice dressed with some light sauce (for example, creamy garlic ) or yellow salsa (pumpkin, red hot pepper, garlic, avocado, lemon - all into a blender).
This dish can be served with tequila, gin or rum with citrus juices, grape white or rose wine.