Knuckle roll in the oven

Cooking this dish is not difficult at all! You just need to follow the steps described in the recipe. Even a novice cook can cope ;)

1. Prepare the products for the filling:

- cut the skin from the bacon (bacon fat), then cut the fat into small cubes,

- peel the onion and chop it finely,

- chop nuts with a knife,

- pre-washed and dried with a paper towel, parsley and rosemary leaves are cut finely,

- apples are washed, wiped with a towel, peeled, cut out the stems and cores and cut into small cubes.

2. Prepare the filling:

- put a large frying pan on medium heat, put butter in it and wait for it to melt,

- put the chopped bacon (lard) and chopped onion in a heated frying pan, fry them, stirring, for 3-4 minutes (until the onion is soft),

- add chopped nuts to the pan, continue cooking all together for 5-7 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat,

- put finely chopped apples in a frying pan, pour breadcrumbs, chopped parsley and rosemary, salt a little, mix everything.

3. Now we prepare the knuckle and form a roll:

- wash the knuckle thoroughly, remove excess moisture with paper towels, scrape the skin, cut out the bone (if necessary, for which we make a longitudinal incision),

- put the knuckle on the cutting board with the skin down, cut up. We make cuts on the meat, without cutting the skin, unfold the knuckle so that it turns into a layer (the skin should remain intact),

- we spread the filling on one edge, after which we fold the meat layer into a roll, pull it with a culinary thread with intervals of about 3 cm,

- rub the formed roll with olive oil and sprinkle with salt, put it in a baking dish.

4. The final stage is baking:

- preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius, after which we put a roll form in the oven,

- bake the roll for 20 minutes, after which we reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and cook the roll for 1 hour 30 minutes (when pierced with a knife transparent juice should flow out of the roll).

- turn off the heating, cover the mold with foil, leave for 10-15 minutes.

When the specified time has passed, the roll can be served to the table, cut into thin slices. However, this dish is very tasty and cold.

Bon appetit!