Georgian-style pork legs

Excellent snack straight from sunny Georgia on your plate! I really love Georgian cuisine - personally, the names of Georgian dishes alone make me hungry, so when I met this dish, I cooked it without hesitation! Muzhuzhi is a Georgian jelly, but with minor changes, with a local flavor.
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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 59 % 20 g
Fats 38 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 3 % 1 g
208 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 d
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Wash and clean pork legs

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Soak for a few hours, preferably overnight

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In the morning, the legs are washed again, cleaned if necessary

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Fill with water so that it is 2-3 cm higher. We put it on fire, bring it to a boil, and then remove the foam, reduce the heat and cook on the lowest heat for 2 hours, we try not to actively boil the water, and the legs seem to languish

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    After 2 hours, add onion, salt, bay leaf, black and allspice peas

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cook for another 1 hour

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Then take out the legs, measure out the wine vinegar and peel the garlic

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    We free the legs from the bones and cut them arbitrarily, the Georgians do not get smaller. At this stage, it would be nice to add chopped cilantro - but there was no cilantro in winter. But it turned out very tasty too

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Take 3-4 ladles of the resulting broth (you can do whatever you want with the remaining broth).

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Squeeze garlic through the press and add wine vinegar, people who have problems with the digestive tract should certainly not get carried away with vinegar. I'll digress a little from the topic - when I was looking for a recipe for a husband, it was basically 3 glasses of vinegar for 10 pork legs - I thought "That's a lot" and chose the recipe that I present to you. But when I tried the finished dish, it turned out that there could have been more vinegar, so it's up to you!

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Fill the legs with the resulting marinade and put them in a cold place to solidify

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    In the morning our snack is ready! Cut into portions

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    We put it on a plate. We eat with adjika and pita bread. Enjoy your meal!

It's no secret that Georgians are long-livers, perhaps because they eat men? After all, this dish contains a huge amount of gelatin, which is essentially a natural natural collagen, and this is one of the most important proteins in the body - a protein that forms tissues responsible for their strength and elasticity. Girls who follow beauty have long known that collagen rejuvenates the skin, but also connective and bone tissue.

That's it - in addition to a delicious dish, you also rejuvenate your body! It's just a must-try!

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

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Black pepper peas - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Pork leg - 234   kcal/100g
  • Allspice - 263   kcal/100g
  • Red wine vinegar - 19   kcal/100g

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