I'm a sucker for recipes that start with this sentence: "Make this dish and forget about it..." Pre-Christmas, who doesn't want something you can slide into the oven with minimal effort and pull out hours later? Cider-Braised Pork Shoulder with Caramelized Onions, you're the one for me. I made this meal at the same time that I was making about fifty kinds of candy, all of which, dear reader, I will tell you about in due time.
But more about the pork shoulder--this recipe calls for a 3- to 4- pound bone-in fresh pork shoulder half. I could only find a whole, and was too rushed to ask the butcher to cut it for me--so here I am trying to brown the whole picnic shoulder in a pot slightly too small:
After browning the pork you set it aside and add about 5-6 sliced onions to the pot, sauteeing until they're caramelized:
Then stir in 3/4 cup cider, put the pork back in, cover, and slide the whole thing into a low oven for about 3 hours.
Ready for dinner?
We loved it. Our cat did too.
If I were making it again, though, I'd trim off the skin and most of the fat. There's a LOT of fat on pork shoulder, and it all went into those caramelized onions. Notice that didn't stop me from eating it, but I felt appropriately guilty.
6 comments:
Do you think this would work with some non-pig cut of meat? We keep kosher, but it sounds very tasty.
Oh sure--I think it would work with any beef cut that takes to braising, like brisket.
Looks delicious! Looking at the finished product, I would never have guessed it was as easy as it sounds. I may have to make this.
Do you think it would work with chicken? Would you sub a different liquid?
It would absolutely work with chicken--I would try boneless skinless thigh meat. And cider would be fine! :-)
I just made this recipe. I didn't end up with much liquid after it was done. I hardly had anything to boil down as instructed. Did I do something wrong?
Assuming you covered the pot while it was cooking, you might have had the heat on a little high, which would have made the liquid escape in the form of steam. How was it? Did you like it?
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