Hot smoked meat in a smokehouse at home

Incredibly appetizing and fragrant, melts in your mouth! Hot smoked meat made at home turns out to be especially tasty, because artificial flavors are not used in its preparation. Having a smokehouse at your disposal, you can easily and simply smoke meat at home.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 42 % 8 g
Fats 53 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 5 % 1 g
126 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 d
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to smoke hot smoked meat in a smokehouse? Prepare the products. For smoking, take pork. You can take any part of the carcass. But the most delicious will be pork layers with a small amount of fat with a skin. Pre-marinate it. How to make marinade? Pour the required amount of water into the pan.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Add peeled and chopped garlic, pepper, dry basil, salt and sugar to it. Break the bay leaf into pieces and add the juniper berries to the same place. Put the pan on the fire and bring to a boil. Then remove from the heat, cover with a lid and cool to room temperature. Immerse the pork in the cooled marinade so that it is completely covered with liquid. Put something heavy on top so that the meat does not rise above the surface.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Leave the meat to marinate in this form for two days at room temperature. After two days, remove the meat from the marinade and rinse in running water. Let the water drain completely from the meat.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wrap each piece with a thread and hang it in a well-ventilated room for another day. My meat was hanging in the kitchen near the window.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    For smoking, pour a little alder sawdust on the bottom of the smokehouse. Put the meat on the grill of the smokehouse. There is no need to remove the threads. Put the grill in the smokehouse, cover with a lid and cook on fire for 50 minutes. Then remove the smokehouse from the heat and let it stand without opening for another 10-15 minutes.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Ready meat can be eaten immediately in hot form. And after it lies in the refrigerator, it can be cut into sandwiches or as a snack. The aroma coming from the finished meat is simply fantastic and it is impossible not to try a piece in a hot form. Help yourself!

In addition to pork, any other meat can be used in this dish. Keep in mind that the cooking time, as well as the taste and calorie content of the dish will change. For example, beef is cooked longer than pork, and chicken fillet or turkey is less.

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Pork fat - 333   kcal/100g
  • Pork meat - 357   kcal/100g
  • Pork - low-fat roast - 184   kcal/100g
  • Pork chop on a bone - 537   kcal/100g
  • Pork - schnitzel - 352   kcal/100g
  • Pork Shoulder - 593   kcal/100g
  • Boar's leg - 113   kcal/100g
  • Pork - 259   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Fresh basil - 27   kcal/100g
  • Dried basil - 251   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Juniper - 116   kcal/100g
  • Juniper berries - 116   kcal/100g
  • Black pepper peas - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Allspice - 263   kcal/100g

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