Pork Baked with Potatoes in Hay Recipe
It would seem that there is nothing unusual about meat and potatoes? And an unusual way of cooking, which gives the dish a unique taste. After all, the dish is baked in the oven, on a "pillow" of hay, which is mixed with fragrant thyme and filled with white port.
Servings 6
Cook Time 150 minutes
Ingredients
Marinade:
- 2 pieces Onion
- 3 cloves Garlic
- 2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
Dish:
- 600 gram Pork neck
- 1 piece Onion
- 8 pieces Potatoes
- 5 twigs Thyme + hay (2 handfuls)
- 100 ml Dessert wine white port
- 2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prepare the ingredients. Remove the meat from the refrigerator for about 1 hour so that it gets room temperature. Before cooking, turn on the oven so that it warms up to 180-190 °C.
- The first step is to prepare a marinade for pork. The food processor will help me with this. I use the function of grinding products, the speed is "1". Put the marinade ingredients in a bowl and turn on the food processor for a few seconds.
- The result is such a fragrant gruel, which you need to spread a piece of meat. Leave the meat to marinate at room temperature for 15-20 minutes. Do not cook longer, otherwise the finished meat will have too strong onion flavor.
- While the meat is marinating, peel the potatoes and make cross-shaped shallow incisions on one side. Put the tubers in a bowl, add vegetable oil (1 tbsp.l.), salt, ground pepper and stir until the potatoes are completely covered with oil and seasonings. Peel the onion and cut it into half rings.
- Heat a deep saucepan over high heat, add vegetable oil (1 tbsp.l.). Remove the marinade from the meat. Put the pork in a well-heated saucepan and quickly fry the piece on all sides. You do not need to bring the meat to readiness, we only need a ruddy crust.
- Line a deep baking dish or saucepan with hay, forming the sides, adding sprigs of thyme and finely chopped onion. Then pour in the port.
- Put a piece of meat on this fragrant pillow and cover it with potatoes from all sides. Cover the mold with foil and send it to bake in the oven for 1 hour or until the dish is ready. The unusual aroma will begin to spread around the house within 10 minutes after the start of baking.
- Check the meat and potatoes for readiness. If necessary, return the dish to the oven for another 10-15 minutes. The cooking time depends on the size of the piece of meat and potato tubers. Let the meat brew a little, and then serve the dish to the table: cut the pork into portions and serve with potatoes, adding fresh vegetables and herbs.