Homemade Pork and Chicken Aspic (Kholodets)
A delicious pork-and-chicken aspic for the holiday table. Kholodets — a savory meat jelly — is a traditional Russian dish, always festive and tasty. Many people shy away from making it, thinking the process is a chore and the dish too plain, but we disagree. I always make it for the holidays using my favorite recipe, which I'd like to share with you today.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather all the ingredients.
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Step 2:
Wash and scrape the meat. Remove the toes from the pig trotters. Put the washed meat in a large pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Drain off this first foamy water, then rinse the meat and the pot. Return the meat to the pot, cover with fresh water, and bring to a boil again.
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Step 3:
Add the carrots, peppercorns, and salt, and set it over the lowest heat to simmer for 3 hours. Add the onion and bay leaves and simmer another 2–3 hours. When the time is up, remove the meat and vegetables from the broth, and strain the broth through several layers of cheesecloth.
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Step 4:
Remove all the bones from the pork and chicken and chop the meat finely. Press the garlic and mix it into the meat. Divide the meat and garlic among your aspic molds, pour in the strained broth, and let it cool to room temperature. Then refrigerate the aspic until set, at least 8 hours — preferably overnight.
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Step 5:
Your homemade pork and chicken aspic is ready! Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Category I chicken - 238 kcal/100g
- Chicken of the II category - 159 kcal/100g
- Chicken, flesh without skin - 241 kcal/100g
- Chickens - 140 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Carnation - 323 kcal/100g
- Bay leaf - 313 kcal/100g
- Black pepper peas - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Pork leg - 234 kcal/100g
- Allspice - 263 kcal/100g
- Pork knuckle - 294 kcal/100g
