Shish kebab on an onion pillow in the oven or sleeve - a dish "lick your fingers!"
You can cook excellent kebab on an onion pillow in the oven in the apartment kitchen, regardless of the weather and season. To do this, you need to prepare food, seasonings, tools, a little patience. There are many recipes, but each culinary master supplements them with his own ingredients, which makes the taste of the prepared dish even tastier.
Kebab on an onion pillow in the oven
This recipe uses the neck of a young pig (it has no fat).
To make the kebab juicy, white onions are used. It is sharper than red onion and gives off a lot of juice.
In the recipe for barbecue on an onion pillow baked in the oven, you will need the following products:
- 1.5 kg of pork neck meat;
- 200 g lard;
- 6 pieces of medium onion bulbs;
- 70 g sugar;
- 70 ml vinegar;
- 1 pack of barbecue seasoning;
- ½ lemon;
- 1 g (1/2 tsp) ground black pepper
- 1 g allspice powder;
- foil tray size;
- 1 tbsp. water;
- 5 branches of a cherry tree.
To cut food you need a sharp knife, board. Also containers for meat and onions, a colander, boiling water.
Cooking process
Onions need to be peeled and washed. To avoid crying, the knife is often rinsed in cold water.
The order of work is distributed as follows:
- The onion is cut into rings or half rings, folded into a container.
- The onion is transferred to a colander, doused with boiling water (the bitter taste is removed).
- Moves back into the container, add vinegar, sugar, allspice, water, mix, close with a lid. The rings are marinated as long as it takes to prepare the other ingredients.
- The meat is cut into pieces, in the center there is a hole, like a skewer is cut with a knife. Seasoning, black pepper is added to it, lemon juice is squeezed out, mixes well, closes for 1 hour of pickling.
- A tray for frying meat is removed from the oven, on the bottom of which a layer of thinly cut cherry branches is laid. Foil is covered on the branches. Thin slices of chopped bacon are laid on top of the foil.
- The oven is heated up to + 250 °.
- Pickled onions are laid out on a tray from the oven in a layer, on top of it the meat is installed on the second level of the oven.
- A container with water is placed on the bottom of the oven 25 minutes after the start of extinguishing. Cherry branches will give off a smell, the meat will be saturated with the real aroma of barbecue.
When serving, the dish can be added green onions, thin strips of bell pepper, lightly salted chopped cucumber.
Pork shashlik in the sleeve on an onion pillow
For this kebab recipe in the oven on an onion pillow, the same set of products is selected, except for bacon and cherry branches. The pickling process is identical to the previous recipe. When the marinating of the ingredients is complete, a sleeve tied on one side lies on the tray. From the open side, the sleeve is filled with a bow ball, the top is covered with a layer of meat, the open end is tied. On the surface, the sleeve is pierced in several places. After 45 minutes of braising, the sleeve is cut open to brown until golden brown, and left for another 35 minutes. The surface is poured with juice, which is released during frying. Pork shashlik on an onion pillow turns out to be very juicy and tasty, but without the haze.
Juicy shish kebab of chicken legs
Juicy pieces, which are cut from chicken legs, can be prepared in the form of a shish kebab in a sleeve on an onion pillow, similar to pork shish kebab, just as tasty, aromatic and healthy. You should take into account the nuances of cooking marinated chicken pieces.
Chicken meat is more tender than pork, cooks faster in time.
For cooking you will need:
- 4 chicken legs;
- ½ lemon;
- 2 medium onions;
- 1 tsp Sahara,
- 25 ml vinegar;
- 1 tsp honey;
- ½ cup vegetable oil;
- 10 g salt;
- 1 g pepper powder;
- ½ cup sour cream;
- a clove of garlic;
- baking sleeve.
The legs are cut into portions, poured with lemon juice, sour cream, honey, crushed garlic is added. The meat is salted, peppered, mixed, left for 1 hour to marinate. You can marinate the legs in your own juice, but this will take 10 hours. Onions are cut into rings, pickled with sugar, vinegar. Chicken, pickled pieces are placed on a layer of pickled onions, placed in an oven at a temperature of + 180 ° for 35-45 minutes.
When serving, the dish is sprinkled with herbs. You can bake vegetables for this service in the oven.
Tips & Tricks
Chefs who are knowledgeable, have cooked, have tested the recipes from personal experience at work, advise:
- only young meat, on the cut: pork tender pink;
- take parts for barbecue from the neck, loin (the ham will marinate longer);
- for meat marinade only lemon juice (hardens from vinegar);
- comparison of the weight of meat to onions, in kg: 1: 1.3;
- small pieces are cut, 6x8 cm (less - they will dry out, more - they will not be fried inside);
- vegetables are baked separately, faster in time;
- so that the pieces are evenly fried, you need to turn the meat, pour over the juice.
The completely simple rules of preparation will allow you to feast on pork or other types of meat barbecue on an onion pillow, fried in the oven. Shish kebab is served hot, complemented by herbs and vegetables. Enjoy your meal.