Posts Tagged ‘Ham’
I’ve always been used to buying pre packed ham. After all, it’s convenient and if you get the taste the difference ranges, it can be pretty tasty. However, for my past few food shops, I’ve been buying gammon joints to make and slice my own ham, and boy can you REALLY taste the difference (at no extra cost).
So I thought I’d share some of my learnings thus far!
Saltiness
If you find the ham too salty (I did), soak the ham in water for 3-4 hours before cooking. Some may advise to leave it overnight, but I found this took away too much of the salt and a lot of the flavour too.
Cooking
Cooking a gammon joint in the oven is great, but I wanted to find a quicker way to do it, so I tried the pressure cooker. As a rule of thumb, I cooked the ham for 30 minutes per 1 kg with about a mugs worth of water added. Stabilise the pressure over the high pressure setting and leave to cook.
The ham worked out perfect and needed hardly any time to steam. I found it important to use the high pressure setting and check the ham is cooked through before slicing.
Enjoy, and let me know how you get on,
Cheers!
If your cooking for mates, or simply looking for a recipe to jazz up chicken and make it taste great, then you should try my recipe for stuffed chicken breast wrapped in parma ham.
It’s easy to cook and the parma ham helps keep the chicken moist when in the oven. All you need to do is mix chives with cream cheese and stuff this into each chicken breast.
Then brush the chicken with oil, marjoram/oregano and garlic, then wrap with the parma ham. Sprinkle the chicken with mozzarella half way through cooking then it’s done – A real crowd pleaser!
Click here to see the full recipe for chicken wrapped in parma ham on FitBrits.com
This Recipe tastes great and is simple to make. All it takes is wrapping chicken with Parma ham and rubbing some garlic and marjoram in-between. Why stop with chicken? You can use this technique with anything! View our recipe for chicken wrapped in parma ham and make sure you have the following:
So you think you’ve had a meat feast pizza before? You ain’t seen nothing yet! If you want the best pizza you’ve ever tasted, you need to try this recipe for the weekend.
Not only is this crammed full of, well, whatever you want, its a monster of a pizza, tastes absolutely fantastic and works out a whole log cheaper than a shop/restaurant bought pizza.
You’ll never turn back to the greasy, poor excuses of an over-the-counter pizza after you’ve cooked one of these!
