Homemade Pork Rillettes
Pork rillettes are a rustic French spread made by slowly cooking pork with fat, aromatics, wine, and stock until the meat falls apart, then mixing it into a rich, coarse, spreadable texture. It is not a smooth pâté, and that is exactly the point. Good rillettes should have little strands of meat, enough fat to stay moist, and a deep slow-cooked pork flavor.
- Servings: 10
Source: Michel Dumas
Ingredients
- pork shoulder or pork butt
- pork fat or very fatty pork belly
- large white onion
- dry white wine
- to 2 cups poultry stock
- bay leaves
- large thyme sprig
- teaspoons fine sea salt
- to 2 teaspoons cracked black pepper
- Water