The quality of sausage, which is sold in stores today, leaves much to be desired. However, sometimes you really want to eat a sandwich with fragrant ham in the morning. Do not deny yourself pleasure. Even children can safely enjoy delicious ham if you make it yourself. Well, no, you say. - it's completely impossible. Don't worry, there is absolutely nothing complicated. Chicken ham at home is prepared quite simply, and how delicious it is! There are dozens of recipes, following which you will get an excellent sausage without harmful additives and flavors.
What is required for work
It is not necessary to be a professional chef or have expensive equipment at home. Even devices for stuffing the intestines you do not need. Chicken ham at home is made using the simplest tools. So, you will need a kitchen scale, a cutting board and knives, kitchen towels, a bowl and a roasting sleeve, a deep saucepan with a lid, a spatula and a plastic container. We will look at several recipes today, but this basic set will be needed for each of them.
Let's start cooking
Chicken ham at home is prepared so quickly and simply that, having tried this dish once, you definitely won’t refuse it. You will need to defrost the chicken (one serving is a medium carcass, weighing about one and a half kilograms). Rinse it thoroughly and remove any stumps and feathers. If the liver, lung and heart remain inside, then they must also be removed. Now we wash the carcass from the inside, after which we dry it with paper towels. The finished chicken goes to the cutting board. Now you need to prepare a mixture from it for future ham. 
Cutting rules
Ham from chicken at home is made from their pure pulp, without the addition of soy and grains, thickeners and stabilizers. Now we need to divide the carcass into parts and remove all the meat from each of them. It must be cut into small pieces, up to 1 cm in size. The skin, bones, neck and back can be useful for making broth, so put them in a bag and put them in the freezer. Pieces of fat can also be saved, but they do not go into ham.
Spices for the best taste
What makes sausage so delicious? Of course, because of the professional set of spices, the secret of which is kept only by technologists of large enterprises. However, today it is no longer a secret that most of these additives are not at all useful for the body, so it would be much better to get by with natural flavors.
So, from one chicken we got about 800 g of pure pulp. Now you need to season it with salt. Here, each hostess has her own calculations. As a basis, you can take 0.5 teaspoon. In addition, sprinkle the meat with black pepper, add 2-3 cloves of garlic, previously passed through a garlic press. At this stage, you can add green peas, chopped carrots, red peppers, as well as any seasonings you wish. Mix well and leave for 15 minutes to marinate the chicken. 
Formation of ham
The chicken ham recipe at home involves heat treatment in an artificial casing. To do this, sprinkle the pickled meat with gelatin and mix thoroughly again. Now you are faced with an important task - to form a tight roll. To do this, you need to choose a shell. It can be a baking film or a plastic bag. The roll must be rolled very tightly so that there is no air left in it. If you are using thin cling film, then you need to make several layers. To avoid a breakthrough or puncture, the future ham must be tightened in one layer of aluminum foil. For reliability, wrap the roll with thread very well. Why so much attention to tightness? Because if water seeps into the meat, it will wash away the precious juice and the ham will suffer greatly.
Heat treatment
As you can see, cooking chicken ham at home is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first glance. The formed roll must be lowered into a deep, wide pan and poured with water so that it covers it by about 4-5 fingers. After boiling, reduce the fire to a minimum. A very important point: the roll should lie flat on the bottom, without kinks. Therefore, the dishes must be of a suitable diameter.
It will take about an hour and a half to cook the ham, under a covered lid. After that, drain the water and leave it to cool completely to room temperature. After that, without opening the package, transfer the roll to a plastic container and leave it on the refrigerator shelf overnight. 
Tasting
Cooking chicken ham at home is almost over. Thin slices are cut with a sharp knife, laid out on a flat dish and decorated with herbs, mayonnaise and ketchup. You can immediately make delicious sandwiches, supplementing them with fresh cucumber or mustard. Children will love to eat them. If desired, you can add this ham to salads.
If desired, you can reduce the calorie content of this dish by using only chicken breasts. But in this case, the ham is too dry. It is recommended to add butter or a few raw legs to such meat. In this recipe, we considered adding a minimum amount of spices, but you can change everything as you wish. Provencal or spices that are used for meat dishes, turmeric, all of which can be used with great success in this dish.
In addition, many housewives use fresh bell peppers and carrots, cut into long strips, canned peas and corn, boiled eggs, fried mushrooms and olives, gherkins and nuts, as well as a variety of greens. With such additives, chicken ham at home (we will give a photo in our article) becomes even brighter and more festive. 
Ham in a box
Do you want to have a real square loaf of ham on your table, elegant and incomparably tasty? Then the following recipe is just for you. Since we can already cook chicken ham at home, it remains only to work on the details. You will need the same amount of meat, dry rosemary and a milk or kefir bag inside with foil. An empty juice bag is also great.
However, we recommend slightly changing the recipe. We cut the chicken breast into small pieces, and chop the rest of the meat with a meat grinder or blender into minced meat. Mix everything thoroughly, sprinkle with seasonings and pack tightly into the prepared box, cover with foil or foil on top. Now you need to find a deep saucepan, and put an inverted saucer on the bottom. We put the box in it in such a way that the water reaches the place where the stuffing ends. Now bring to a boil and cook for an hour and a half.
Ham in a bag
This is another option for making homemade treats that you might like. In this case, we suggest taking a ham maker of your choice, that is, a special silicone mold in the form of a cylinder with holes along the edges and special plugs. It is ideal for making a loaf of the shape we are used to.
If you don’t have such a device, then don’t worry, chicken ham will be no worse cooked at home in a bag. To do this, pick up a tin can from under tomato paste or other canned food and cut out both bottoms from it. Put a baking bag in it. It is best to make it double, otherwise there is a risk that during the cooking process it will be damaged and water will get inside. And then everything is according to the previous recipe. We stuff the sleeve with minced meat, fix it at both ends and cook in a saucepan with water. 
Cooking in the oven
And for this recipe you will need a metal mold. Chicken ham at home in the oven turns out no worse than a delicacy from a supermarket. For a 13 x 24 cm mold, you will need 600 g of chicken breast and 300 g of thighs. Grind the fillet in a blender, and cut the thighs into pieces. Add 2 tablespoons of powdered milk, 1 egg and a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce, salt and your favorite seasonings.
Now cover the baking dish with foil, and on top with baking paper. Thoroughly tamp the minced meat and close it with free ends. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the ham for about 40 minutes. After that, wait for complete cooling. 
Miracle in a bottle
As you can see, there are more than enough options for preparing a delicious snack. But we won't stop there. We have the next amazing dish in line - homemade chicken ham in a bottle. The composition has been slightly modified to show you the high variability. Each housewife can redraw it to her own taste, and each time a new dish will be obtained.
You will need: two legs, 300 g of chicken liver and 250 g of hearts, as well as spices. The legs should be placed in water and boiled for 50 minutes. Do not pour out the broth, we will still need it. Separately, in a saucepan, boil the hearts and liver for 40 minutes. After cooling, cut them and the legs into small pieces. Now pour about one and a half ladle of chicken broth into a separate container and add 5 g of gelatin to it. Heat the solution in a water bath to dissolve the gelatin. Salt the meat, add spices and pour the resulting broth. Take a pre-prepared plastic bottle that has had its neck cut off. Pour the resulting mixture into it and cover the top with a lid that fits in diameter. Place a weight on top, such as a jar of water. She will press the meat part down, it will not float, and the ham will turn out denser. Now put the delicacy in the refrigerator overnight, after which you can cut it into portions.
Instead of a conclusion
As you can see, there are a lot of ways to cook homemade ham. Each of them can become your signature recipe. Try to cook such a sausage with your home. We are sure that they will no longer want to look at store-bought delicacies. In addition, the abundance of variations will allow you to find the most delicious recipe for your household, taking into account their preferences. By analogy, you can use other meats, such as turkey or pork. And again at the exit you will get a new dish.
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