Ham baked in the dough is a wonderful holiday dish.
Ingredients:
Delicious taste and attractive look guarantees the success.
- 1 kg pork
- bread kvas
- salt
- pepper
for the dough:
- 200 g butter
- 200 g sour cream
- 400 g flour
- salt
- 1 ea egg to brush
Method:
- Soak pork ham in bread kvas and leave in a cold place for a night.
- Take out meat and dry with a paper napkin, sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Mash butter, add sour cream and stir carefully, salt to taste.
- Stir in flour.
- Knead the dough and leave under the towel to “rest”.
- The dough must be plastic and pliable.
- Roll out the dough in a square 0,7 cm thick to put the pork on.
- Put the pork in the center and pinch the opposite edges.
- Put the ham on a wetted baking sheet the seam down.
- Pierce all the surface with a fork.
- Brush up with egg.
- Decorate with different leaves and flowers made from the rest of dough and then brush with egg again.
- Bake in the oven 200 C for 1,5-2 hours.
- After 30 minutes the dough is golden, but the meat is not ready yet, so cover the surface of the dough with a wetted sheet of kraft paper.
- Wet the paper regularly.
- After 1,5 hour of baking pierce the meat with fork, if the juice is clear, the ham can be served.
