Pork stew

Pork stew is a meat food product well known to all residents of the post-Soviet space. For a fairly long time in an untouchable stock or in a set of products for an "alarming" suitcase of a citizen of the USSR, each Soviet family had an invariable component - pork stew. Nowadays, no one keeps pork stew with boxes in case of natural disasters, war or other troubles.

Pork stew passed from the military to the category of peaceful food. Why is pork stew so good? First, stew is a canned meat product. In the process of preservation, pork meat undergoes heat treatment, so the product perfectly retains all its taste and consumer properties for a large amount of time. Moreover, the shelf life of pork stew increases if you use iron cans to pack the finished product.

What is noteworthy, usually the shelf life of pork stew is set by the manufacturer at 2-3 years, no more. History has known cases when people ate pork stew from an untouchable reserve of 50 years ago. In addition to excellent consumer qualities, pork stew has excellent saturating abilities.

Composition of pork stew

This is primarily due to the composition of pork stew, which usually includes the following ingredients: gelled pork meat, onions (fresh or dried), salt, pepper, as well as bay leaves. The calorie content of pork stew is 367 Kcal. This is a fairly high figure. However, you should not make hasty conclusions and completely exclude the product from your diet only because of the high calorie content of pork stew.

Although the composition of the pork stew contains up to 53% fat, eating the product within reasonable limits will not cause significant harm to either your health or the beauty and harmony of the figure. True, unscrupulous manufacturers of pork stew often violate the rules and requirements of GOST and add ingredients to the product that are not provided for by the recipe. It is impossible to vouch for the safety of such a product.

Therefore, it is better to prepare pork stew at home, especially in modern times it will not be difficult to find a recipe and all the ingredients for stew. We suggest you try your hand at making pork stew with the following simple recipe. So you need a kilo of pork fillet, salt, pepper and bay leaf. If there is a desire, you can add other spices and spices to taste.

Meat for stew must be cut in small pieces, before pork should be washed under running water. Put the cut meat in a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Then we sterilize the jars and put the peppers and bay leaves on the bottom. We place the meat in cans and put it in a cold oven. This is a prerequisite that should not be forgotten. Then we set the temperature sensor to 200 degrees and begin to extinguish the pork. It usually takes 3-4 hours, then turn off the oven, and leave the meat to warm up inside for a while. At the last stage, we close the cans with lids. It is better to store ready-made homemade stew in the refrigerator.