Ingredients to make Baked Ham with Pepper:
- 1½ kilograms of pork leg
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of Pepper
- 80 grams of lard
- 1 teaspoon of rosemary
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 unit of onion
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 unit of stock cube (cube)
- 1 pinch of ground cayenne
How to make Baked Ham with Pepper:
- The first thing we will do before preparing the baked ham with pepper, will be preparing the meat juice. To do this, bring water to a boil with the onion, bay leaf, pepper, rosemary, meat cube and cayenne pepper. Let everything cook as if it were a soup but letting it reduce a lot so that the flavor is very strong. Booking.
- Separately, crush the garlic in a mortar together with the butter. Once the meat is very clean, spread the whole piece with the mashed butter and let the meat marinate overnight in the fridge. They must spend at least 12 hours but if it is a whole day much better.
- On the day of preparing the baked ham, heat the oven to 180ºC. Place the piece of meat in a large enough mold, sprinkle a little broth, cover it with aluminum foil and cook. During cooking, spray the ham with the previously prepared broth.
- Trick: Stick a knife all over the meat to make small holes, this way the broth will penetrate the meat more during cooking.
- To calculate the cooking time, it must be taken into account that the ham will cook for one hour for each kilo of meat, in this case about 60-90 minutes will be enough. When there are about 10 minutes left to finish, uncover the ham and add the rest of the broth.
- When the oven-baked ham with pepper is ready, you can cut it into thin slices and serve it for Christmas dinner accompanied with potatoes a la pore, steamed vegetables or a potato and olive salad.
