Tag: Slow Cook

Japanese Style Slow Cooked Turkey Leg with Red Wine and Miso

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Looking for something different this week? Remember turkey isn’t just Christmas with this Japanese style, slow cooked turkey leg with umami flavours!

Prep: 5mins
Cook: 3 hours

Ingredients: 1 large turkey leg, (male if you can get it, as it’s even bigger), 1/2 a bottle of red wine, 1 heaped tbsp. of white miso paste, 2 tsps. Sesame seeds 4 peeled garlic cloves, 2 star anaise, 2 cinnamon sticks.

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 130F
  2. Make some slits in the skin of the turkey
  3. Pop the turkey leg into a deep lidded, oven proof pan
  4. Add to the pan the rest of the ingredients, making sure to pour some over the top of the turkey
  5. Put the lid on and cook in the oven for 1.5 hours
  6. Take the turkey out and baste
  7. Pop back in the oven for a further 1.5 hours
  8. Allow the turkey to rest and serve with juices from the pan, which makes a great gravy
  9. Enjoy!

Goes well with your choice of veg, rice, noodles and even roast potatoes. 

 

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Carribean Style Slow Cooked Pork

Cheap, Cheap Meat Cuts, Comforting, Easy, Easy Entertaining, Food, Main Course, One Pot, Recipes, Slow Cook, Winter Food, World

This is a really easy, delicious slow cooked pork dish packed with loads of flavour, great served with mash and veg to keep you warm this winter – I don’t have a photo of the finished dish as it didn’t last long!

Serves: 4 – 6

Ingredients: 800 – 1kg of Pork Shoulder (fat removed), 2 x celery sticks, 2 cloves of garlic, 1/2 a lemon, 1 onion, 1 cinnamon stick, 2 small chillies (whole), more if you like it hot! 2 bay leaves, 1 tsp. dried thyme, 500ml ginger ale, good pinch of salt and pepper.

Method:

  1. Preheat your oven to 130F
  2. Roughly chop all of your vegetables
  3. Place the pork in an oven proof lidded dish
  4. Scatter all of the vegetables and dried herbs plus the lemon all over the pork with good pinch of salt and pepper
  5. Pour over the ginger ale put the lid on and pop into the oven for 4 hours, checking half way through cooking time that it is not drying out, if it is add a little water, at this stage also pour some of the juices back over the pork
  6. Pop back in the oven until cooking time is up
  7. Allow to rest for 10 – 15mins then you should be able to shred the pork easily
  8. Serve with some extra veg, potatoes or rice and drizzle over some of those amazing juices…
  9. Enjoy!