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Russian Holodets Meat Jelly Xолодец

Holodets is essentially a meat jelly made by cooking pork parts that contain a lot of bone, skin and cartilage (such as legs, ears, and even hooves) This dish’s name “holodets” is from the Russian word “holod” means “cold”. Its is because the final preparation step is to cool in a refrigerator for a few hours. Really, chicken, beef, or pork “holodets” is a meat jelly with meat cuts, vegetable cuts, and spices inside. This dish is an ancient recipe, which is still the same as some hundreds of years ago, and this is a traditional dish for many Russian celebrations. The first stage of the recipe is to make a tasty broth.
To make it: put pieces of  bones and meat in a large sauce pan in same time, pour cold water over them boil for 5 hrs then put bay leaves, carrots, onion, coriander, salt, and ground pepper,  boil with low heating for 1 more hour. Remove foam when it comes up, until the boiling water is clear.

I got chicken drumsticks, pork foot and beef soup bones.  
First rinse the meat. Then put meat in the pot. Cover with water add salt. Boil on low for 5 hrs.
Add: 
2 carrots 
1 large onion 
2 bay leaves
Coriander, pepper
More salt if needed
Boil for 1 hr.  
At this time boil about 5  eggs for decoration.
Let it cool down a bit. Take the bones, meat out and strain the broth. 
Pull all meat out of bones. Set it aside. 
To make decorations for upside down way; put a little bit of  broth in the dish you will use and put it in freezer for 15 min or refrigerator until it sets.  
 Then arrange your decorations and add meat on top.
Pour more broth on top and more egg, carrots and parsley return to refrigerator. I made it at night so in the morning it was perfectly set. We like to enjoy it with spicy mustard (горчица).     


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