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Recipe : **** Homemade Pork Rillettes

Homemade Pork Rillettes
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Course:
Appetizer

Practical information

  • Prep time
    15 min
  • Cooking
    7 h
  • Ready in
    7 h 15
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
  • Rate:
             
 
"The rillettes I make, for which I'm sharing the recipe, are not fatty, but instead are light, spicy and peppery. They obviously call for a wine that is both dry (sugar encumbers the taste buds) and not too mature, otherwise it will overpower the rillettes."
 

Categories

Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Meat recipes
Tags:
pork, Pork, light, spicy, sugar, taste, Wine, tea

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 2 kg pork belly
  • 2 kg lean raw ham
  • 600 g lard
  • 10 g salt
  • 3 g (per kilo) pepper
  • 500 ml water
  • 200 ml vouvray or other white wine

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Cut the pork into pieces. Pour the water into a heavy cast-iron pot and bring to a boil. Add the lard and the cut-up meat.
  • 2
    Cover and cook in a bain marie in the oven at 225ºF for six hours, mixing often with a wooden spoon.
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    When the meat begins to fall apart, the rillettes are cooked. Add the Vouvray and return to the oven for an hour.
  • 4
    Remove from the heat. Mix and break up roughly. Season. While still hot, pack into stoneware pots. Let cool, then refrigerate.
  • Ready !