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Pork with oranges may seem like a strange combination only at first glance. Meat and fruit are a wonderful duo that many gourmets love. A dish baked in the oven can decorate any feast. It acquires an incredible aroma, turns out to be very juicy and at the same time original.
How to cook pork with oranges in the oven
For oven-baked pork with oranges, you can take any parts of the carcass. But the most delicious dishes come from meat with a minimum amount of films and muscles, for example, from tenderloin, as well as from ribs and neck.
You can bake a whole piece of pork with oranges, or divide it into small portions
The meat must be fresh. It is better to purchase pieces that have not been frozen. When choosing oranges, you should pay attention to their quality. Fruit should be taken without any signs of rot or damage. These dishes often require both pulp and zest.
Before heat treatment, they are thoroughly washed, the peel is peeled with a brush, then rinsed with boiling water. This removes impurities from the rough surface of the citrus. If the recipe requires it, juice is squeezed out of the oranges. They are used for marinating pork, adding spices, and for making orange sauce for meat.
Experienced chefs share the following secrets of cooking pork with citrus fruits in the oven:
- Before baking meat with fruit, the oven must be well warmed up.
- It is impossible to overexpose the dish in the oven so that it does not release juice and does not become dry.
- Another rule that allows you to keep pork juicy concerns temperature. The dish must not be placed in the oven open, without foil or a baking bag, and at temperatures below 180 degrees.
- You can add pineapple, apple to orange juice.
- Pork can be soaked in marinade or garnished with sauce. You can add a little white wine to add original flavors.
- In order for the meat to be well saturated with marinade and sauce, it must be thoroughly cleaned of films.
- To prevent the dish from burning in the oven, you can pour it over with orange juice, and then cover it with parchment or baking foil.
How to bake pork with oranges according to the classic recipe
According to the classic recipe of pork with oranges in the oven, you can prepare a real culinary masterpiece for the festive table. The dish has a slight sourness, pleasant aroma. It will need the following ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of pork ham;
- 4 oranges;
- 1 lemon;
- 5 garlic cloves;
- 2 tbsp. l. honey;
- 3 tsp dried provencal herbs;
- a pinch of ground black pepper;
- a pinch of salt.
Pork in sweet and sour sauce with oranges can be served hot or cold, if desired
How to cook pork with oranges:
- Rinse, peel pork from films. Place in a bowl.
- Peel the garlic cloves. 2 pcs. chop finely and sprinkle the meat with them. Pass the remaining cloves through a press, set aside.
- Take 2 oranges, peel them off. Cut one citrus into circles.
- Squeeze 3 oranges and lemon. Pour the resulting juice over the pork. Leave it in such a marinade for several hours.
- Preheat the oven. Set the temperature to 180 degrees.
- Take chopped garlic. Combine it with dried Provencal herbs and honey.
- Remove the main ingredient from the marinade, salt, sprinkle with black pepper.
- Then rub with a mixture of honey, garlic and herbs.
- Fold into a baking dish and place in the oven. Open the door during cooking and add the orange marinade. The dish is ready in about 1.5 hours.
- Place the orange mug and peel 20 minutes before cooking.
Pork with oranges in the oven and foil
Baking pork with oranges in foil is easy and quick. It takes no more than an hour to bake. The result is an appetizing meat appetizer with a golden crust. It can be served for a festive or romantic dinner, or treated to a group of friends or relatives. For a recipe for pork with oranges baked in foil, you will need:
- ½ kg of pork;
- 1 orange;
- 1 head of onion;
- 3 bay leaves;
- 2 tsp Caucasian spices;
- 1 tsp paprika;
- a pinch of salt.
Recipe can be supplemented with a few cloves of garlic for spiciness.
How to cook:
- The first step is to prepare the tenderloin or other part of the mascara. It must be thoroughly rinsed, dried and rubbed with a mixture of spices and salt. Leave to soak for 10-15 minutes.
- Cut the onion head into half rings. Combine with meat product.
- Divide the orange into wedges, add to the marinade.
- Sprinkle with ground paprika.
- Take a baking dish, cover with cling foil.
- Place the meat and bay leaves on it. Cover with foil on top.
- Put in the oven, turn on the temperature mode +180 degrees.
- Bake for an hour.
- Remove the pork from the oven and cool. Cut into small slices before serving.
Pork baked with oranges and honey
Honey gives the snack an original sweetish flavor that goes well with the sourness of citrus fruits. For extraordinary sweet and sour pork with orange you need:
- 1.5 kg of pork leg (or other part of the carcass);
- 4 oranges;
- 1 lemon;
- 40 ml of honey;
- 5 garlic cloves;
- 2 tsp dried provencal herbs;
- a pinch of ground black pepper;
- a pinch of salt.
In addition to the methods of baking in the oven, there are recipes for meat books, which are prepared in separate slices, as well as pork chops with orange
Actions:
- Rinse the pork leg, remove the films.
- Take 2 garlic cloves, grate or pass through a press. Season the pork with it.
- Squeeze 3 oranges and lemon. Pour the juice into the main product. Leave to soak for a few hours.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
- Combine honey with three chopped garlic cloves.
- Add dried Provencal herbs to the garlic-honey mass. Mix well.
- Grate the pork leg with the mixture. Salt.
- Place in the oven. Baking time - 1.5 hours.
- Cover the meat with circles of oranges 15 minutes before cooking.
How to bake pork in soy sauce with oranges
A highlight on the festive table can be pork in soy sauce with citrus. It is made from available products. The appetizer turns out to be very tender, it literally melts in your mouth. And citruses add a fresh flavor. The recipe requires:
- 700 g pork;
- 100 ml soy sauce;
- 2 oranges;
- 3 garlic cloves;
- 1 tbsp. l. honey;
- a pinch of ground black pepper;
- a pinch of salt;
- vegetable oil for frying.
As a side dish, you can serve boiled rice or potatoes, vegetables
Steps:
- Rinse the pulp and remove the films. Then cut into several pieces in the direction of the grain, slightly beat off. Cut even smaller, into pieces 2-3 cm in size.
- Prepare the sauce. To do this, take citrus fruits, squeeze juice from them.
- Mix it with honey, seasonings.
- Pass the garlic cloves through a press, add to the orange-honey mixture.
- Pour in soy sauce, mix again.
- Pour the meat parts with the resulting marinade, leave for 2 to 12 hours. The longer the marinating time, the more tender the appetizer will be.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, then put pork, pour in a little marinade. Simmer covered for 20 minutes.
- Top up the remaining sauce, leave on the fire for another quarter of an hour. At this time, add salt to the dish.
- At the final stage, it can be sent to a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Conclusion
Pork with oranges is an aromatic, nutritious dish that will be appreciated even by the most discerning palates. It can be served both for everyday lunches or dinners, and for the festive table. When preparing a meat appetizer, each housewife can add her favorite seasonings to her taste, create her own sauces.
