Pork legs and knuckle jelly

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook jelly from pork legs and knuckle? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for the jelly. Choose light legs, not curly, with clean hooves, so that you don't scratch and burn yourself later. Choose a thicker and not very greasy knuckle. Then the jelly will turn out more transparent.

2. Step 2:

   

   In order for the jelly to be transparent in the future, put the treated, clean legs and knuckle in a deep saucepan and fill with cold water. Leave for 5-6 hours, during which time the blood will go into the water, then drain it. Pour in clean water, put on a slow fire and cook, removing the foam, for 3 hours. In any case, do not cover the pan with a lid and do not add heat.

3. Step 3:

   

   The knuckle and legs should be cooked at a slow boil and without a lid, then the broth will be transparent. After 3 hours, put the washed onion, without removing the husk, bay leaf, peeled and chopped carrots. Add a little salt to everything, put black pepper and cook for another hour.

4. Step 4:

   

   Remove the legs and knuckle and disassemble, removing the bones and skin, finely chop. Strain the broth and remove the fat from the surface. This can be done with paper napkins by swiping over the surface. Or freeze the broth a little so that the top fat freezes and it can be removed. Add the chopped garlic, salt to taste and mix with the meat. Pour the jelly into cups and put it in a cold place until it hardens.

6. Step 5:

   

   If you're going to make jelly for a festive table, you'll have to tinker a little, but it's worth it. Take disposable salad bowls and to make decorations on the surface, pour a little broth on the bottom. Put it in a cold place, let it freeze.

7. Step 6:

   

   Put the decorations. It can be greens, carrots, eggs or berries. I have decorated the top with parsley leaves and cranberry berries. Pour some more broth and put it away in the cold. The broth should freeze and fix the decorations, then nothing will pop up and the pattern will not be broken.

8. Step 7:

   

   After that, mix the broth with the meat, chopped garlic and pour the molds to the very top. Put it away in a cold place so that the jelly freezes. Remove the jelly from the molds and serve. In order to remove the jelly, you can lower the mold into hot water for a few seconds. Then the edge will melt a little and the jelly will easily come out. Or you can pull the edge of the mold from the jelly in a circle, letting the air inside, and the jelly also gets perfectly.

9. Step 8:

   

   Bon appetit.