Croatian Piglet (“odojak U Pecnici�)

Total Time: 2 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 40 mins

Ingredients

• 2500 g lamb legs (whole back leg of a piglet)
• 500 ml beer
• 1 1/2 cups oil
• salt

Recipe

• 1 wash the piglet leg and salt it. do not salt the skin.
• 2 cut the skin with sharp knife and make a “chess boardâ€? on it.
• 3 preheat oil in a pot. pour hot oil over the piglet skin and quickly put the piglet in hot oven (220°c).
• 4 you bake piglet as follows: 1 kg = 1 hour.
• 5 after 15 min reduce heat to 180°c and pour over piglet 1/3 of your beer.
• 6 after approximately 1,5 hours pour over another 1/3 of your beer.
• 7 about 20 minutes before it is done heat the over back to 220°c and pour over the piglet last 1/3 of your beer.
• 8 wondering around hot oven obviously requires more than half a litre of beer, so keep one for the piglet and three for you.