A family holiday, a grand celebration, a meeting with friends, an everyday lunch - it doesn’t matter - recipes of pork meat rolls will help you surprise and delight with the culinary delights of your loved ones.
Fragrant juicy filling, wrapped in a tender, juicy layer of meat with a crispy golden crust - will not remain indifferent.
Pork meat rolls - general cooking principles
What are rolls? This is a meat dish, where the filling is tightly wrapped in a broken, seasoned pork layer.
For the preparation of rolls, non-fat pork is used, which is thoroughly washed, dried and cut into thin steaks. After the pieces of pork are wrapped in a film and beaten well. It is acceptable to use pork or minced meat instead of a whole piece. In these cases, the mass is thoroughly mixed, adding spices and salt, spread on a plastic wrap and evened out. Next, the layer is tightly rolled up in the form of a roll.
To enhance the taste, lay out any favorite filling before wrapping: fried mushrooms, onions and carrots, sweet peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, another type of meat, sausages, cheeses, herbs, dried fruits and even nuts - it all depends on the imagination and the desire to experiment.
Do not forget about spices, they will strengthen and emphasize the taste of the dish: herbs, oregano, paprika, turmeric, pepper, garlic and other ingredients will make it more vibrant and rich.
So that the rolls during baking do not fall apart, they are recommended to be tied with strong culinary threads or twine. It is also permissible to fix the rolls with toothpicks. It is recommended to lay out prepared products for cooking with the seam down.
Pork meat rolls can be baked in the oven, fried in a pan, cooked in a slow cooker or steamed. And so that the rolls acquire a beautiful golden color, they can be greased with specially prepared sauces: mustard, based on soy sauce, honey, or periodically watered with the juice that stands out.
1. Pork and prune meat rolls
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of pork;
• 150 grams of pitted prunes;
• onion;
• mineral water;
• soy sauce;
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice;
• half a tablespoon of sugar or honey;
• salt.
Cooking method:
1. Meat is cut, beaten, salted, watered with lemon juice and soy sauce. Marinating requires half an hour at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator.
2. Prune is poured with boiled water, steamed, cut into small cubes.
3. For each piece of meat, lay out a couple of spoons of prepared prunes, fold in the form of a small roll.
4. Marinade is poured onto a dry pan, adding sugar or honey to it, laying out chopped onions. Top rolls.
5. Fry meat over medium heat under a lid for 5 minutes on each side. Then add mineral water, salt and stew until cooked over low heat for about half an hour.
2. Pork meat rolls with cheese and pistachios
Ingredients:
• kilogram of pork;
• hard cheese, pre-sliced;
• 150 grams of salted pistachios;
• natural pomegranate sauce;
• bell pepper;
• olive oil;
• 150 milliliters of dry red wine.
Cooking method:
1. Pork thin cut into strips, beat.
2. The meat is greased with pomegranate sauce, salt, and pepper. Marinate pork preferably within a couple of hours.
3. Pre-pistachios are cleaned and crushed into shavings. They sprinkle with chopped pickled pork.
4. Cheese neatly placed on pistachios.
5. A thin slice of sweet pepper is placed on the cheese.
6. Pork is rolled up, fixed with threads, fried in olive oil.
7. After roasting, meat rolls are spread on a baking sheet, adding dry wine to them.
8. Rolls are covered with foil and baked in the oven at a temperature of 190 - 200 degrees. About 20 minutes are allowed for baking.
3. Pork meat rolls with sweet pepper and herbs
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of pork;
• bell pepper (red, green and yellow, each half);
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 100 grams of hard cheese;
• a mixture of peppers to taste;
• dill and parsley.
Cooking method:
1. Pork is cut with plates about 1.5 centimeters thick. The meat is carefully beaten.
2. Peppers are sliced with cubes.
3. The eggs are broken.
4. Greens are finely chopped, and then added to the eggs. Beat with a whisk until the consistency of an omelet, which is fried in a pan on both sides. Ready omelet with herbs is cut into strips and added to the meat. For each pork roll, 2-3 strips of omelet and a couple of different sized bell peppers are required.
5. Pork pepper, sprinkle with grated cheese.
6. The meat is rolled in the form of rolls, which should be neat and tight. To fix use toothpicks.
7. Pork rolls are fried on each side in a pan. Then they are cooked for about half an hour in the oven.
4. Pork meat rolls with mashed potatoes
Ingredients:
• 500 grams of pork loin;
• 200 grams of champignons;
• onion;
• 150 grams of sesame ;;
• 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
• a glass of mashed potatoes;
• egg;
• salt and black pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
1. At the very beginning, onions and champignons are fried to a ready state.
2. Now they are preparing the filling for meat rolls: mashed potatoes are mixed with fried mushrooms, a tablespoon of sour cream. Salt and pepper are added to the mixture.
3. The meat is cut in portions, carefully beaten on each side, salted and pepper.
4. A tablespoon of sour cream is thoroughly beaten with a whisk with an egg. Each pork roll is dipped in egg-sour cream mixture, rolled in sesame.
5. Ready-made rolls are baked in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees to a golden hue. Enjoy!
5. Pork meat rolls with feta and walnuts
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of pork;
• onion;
• 150 grams of feta;
• 3 tablespoons of wheat flour;
• 1/3 cup walnuts;
• 2 tablespoons of parsley;
• a teaspoon of dried oregano and sweet paprika;
• vegetable oil for frying onions and rolls;
• ground black pepper and salt to taste.
Cooking method:
1. The meat is washed, dried with a paper towel and cut across the fibers into thin slices. Pork is beaten with a kitchen hammer. For lack of this device, you can use a rolling pin or the back of a knife.
2. Each slice of pork is sprinkled with salt, black pepper.
3. Feta knead with a fork.
4. To the cheese add tomato paste, chopped walnuts, sweet paprika and oregano, chopped parsley. Stuffing is thoroughly mixed.
5. For each slice of meat spread the filling. Pork roll roll, fixing with a toothpick.
6. Pork rolls roll in flour.
7. Onions are washed, peeled and cut into thin half rings. The onions are slightly salted and wait for it to drain juice.
8. Pork rolls are cooked in a slow cooker on the program "Frying" for 50 minutes. Rolls are fried in batches until golden on each side.
9. Then fry the onions until soft on the same program "Frying". It is recommended to use a new portion of vegetable oil for onions.
10. Ready-made pork meat rolls are spread on a large flat dish, toasted onions are distributed on top.
6. Pork rolls with mushrooms
Ingredients:
• 800 grams of pork;
• 200 grams of frozen or fresh champignons;
• one carrot;
• onion;
• 2 tablespoons of mustard;
• 2 tablespoons of canned corn;
• 100 milliliters of dry red wine;
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• salt and black pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Pork is carefully cut, as if chops were planned.
2. The meat is beaten in a plastic bag.
3. Pork is salted, pepper and greased with mustard on one side, seasoned with spices. The meat is left for pickling.
4. Sliced champignons fried in thin slices.
5. Fresh carrots are cut into small cubes.
6. Finely chopped onions.
7. Carrots and onions are fried until golden and softened.
8. On the side of the pork, which was coated with mustard, lay a teaspoon of champignons, carrots with onions, corn.
9. The meat is tightly wrapped in the form of a roll and tied with a thread. Pork is fried in a pan.
10. Cheese is grated.
11. Pork rolls are placed in a refractory form and poured with red dry wine. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
12. The meat is baked in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees, for 40 minutes.
Pork meat rolls - tricks and tips
• When preparing a dish, give preference to young meat, from it rolls are both tastier and juicier. If you have the meat of an old animal, then it is better to make rolls of chopped or twisted meat, or before baking the product should first be a little steamed.
• To make the formed roll look beautiful and appetizing, lay the prepared layer on a towel or cling film. Raising the edges of the film, holding the meat itself with your hands, spin a tight roll.
• To give the dish a special flavor, add liquid smoke when baking.
• If you decide to boil or stew meat rolls from pork, monitor the water level in the pan, it should always cover the product completely. And from the remaining broth, you can then cook a light soup.
• Meat roll can be served both hot and cold, with or without garnish.
