Name: How to cook Pigs Cheeks
Ingredients: pigs cheeks

Ingredients

Method

Remember to remove your pigs cheeks from the packaging, pat dry and bring to room temperature
Pre heat your oven to 135°C temperature
Next choose a suitable sized oven proof casserole with a tight fitting lid
Season the meat just prior to coloring with good quality sea salt
Make a mirepoix by neatly chopping equal amounts of onion, carrot and celery or my preferred choice of celeriac, the root of the celery plus a bay leaf, sprig of thyme and a few black peppercorns, another nice addition can be a head of garlic split in half
Take a large, heavy based frying pan, and add a few drops pomace or vegetable oil
Fry the cheeks on all sides then transfer to the casserole dish
Next fry the mirepoix until lightly coloured
Then add half a bottle of red wine, cider or a favorite local ale and reduce by two thirds then add 500 ml of essential cuisine veal stock and reduce a little, thicken with a tablespoon corn flour mixed with a little cold water and stirred into the boiling broth
Pour the sauce over the cheeks and cover
Place in the centre of the oven and cook for approximately 3 hours, the meat should be tender when pierced with a meat fork
Remove from oven, carefully take out the cheeks and keep warm
Pass off the juices through a fine sieve into a clean sauce pan and reduce to a glossy finish then pour back over the cheeks ready to serve