Preparation info
  • Makes

    one 1.35 to 1.8 kg

    Terrine
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By David Chang and Peter Meehan

Published 2009

  • About

Fresh ham meat has a lot of fat on it (just like whole hams), but sometimes when you find it in a butcher shop, much of the fat has been trimmed away and you’re confronted with a pile of dense pink flesh. If that’s the case, buy only 1.5kg fresh ham and supplement it with an additional 225g of fatty pig meat—a slice of raw belly meat, a few good chunks of fat cut from a shoulder, or a brick of fatback, should your butcher have it. The fat is essential to binding the meat together in the ter