Pork knuckle in beer baked in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook a knuckle in beer? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Since the skin in this dish is also suitable for eating, choose a knuckle with a soft skin. It should be easily pierced with a knife. Take soy sauce and beer of good quality so as not to spoil the taste of meat. Use natural fermented soy sauce. Beer - light or dark - take at your discretion. Take a juicy lemon.

2. Step 2:

   

   Start by preparing the knuckle. It should be fresh. If you are using a frozen knuckle, defrost it properly. To do this, leave for 8-10 hours in the refrigerator, and then 2-3 hours at room temperature. Defrosting in water or microwave will make the meat dry and the taste will be spoiled. Wash the knuckle well, soak it in room temperature water for about 30 minutes.

3. Step 3:

   

   How to marinate a knuckle in beer? Prepare the marinade. To do this, take a deep bowl with a volume of about a liter. Peel and rinse the garlic. Finely chop 2 cloves with a knife or in any other way convenient for you. Leave the rest for now, they will come in handy later.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add mustard, soy sauce, salt and pepper to the garlic. Stir until smooth.

5. Step 5:

   

   Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the marinade, add beer to it, mix everything.

7. Step 6:

   

   After soaking, wipe the knuckle with a towel and gently scrape the top layer from the entire surface with a wide knife. Pay special attention to the skin.

8. Step 7:

   

   Fill the knuckle with marinade and keep it at room temperature for at least 6 hours. I usually put the steering wheel in the evening and leave it overnight. Turn it over periodically so that the meat is well soaked.

9. Step 8:

   

   Take the remaining garlic, cut each clove lengthwise into 2-3 pieces. With such cutting, it will be convenient to stuff them with a knuckle. Stuff the knuckle with garlic so that it is evenly soaked with the aroma of garlic. If you do not have a special scupper knife, you can use a knife with a long sharp blade. Pierce the knuckle from the side of the wide cut along the bone and move the garlic pieces deeper along the blade.

10. Step 9:

    

    Place the knuckle in the baking sleeve and place it on a baking sheet. To avoid an emergency situation during baking, pierce the sleeve with a needle in several places. This is done so that the steam formed in the first minutes of baking comes out and does not tear the sleeve. Place the knuckle in an oven preheated to 150 degrees so that the baking process does not turn into cooking. Bake on a shelf below the average 1.5-2 hours.