Pork Recipes & Low-Fat Cooking Tips

Low-Fat Cooking Tips for Pork

Lean Pork for Low-Fat Cooking

Feeding and breeding techniques have been improvised for leaner pork responding to today's health-conscious consumer demand. For healthy meals featuring pork, opt for lean cuts of pork (less than 10g fat, 4.5g saturated fat and 95mg cholesterol). Determine the lean cuts of pork by identifying "loin" or "round" in their name, such as pork tenderloin or loin chop. Pork tenderloin (leanest cut of pork), boneless loin roast, boneless loin chops, boneless ham meet the guidelines for “lean”. Total fat content for trimmed pork tenderloin even equates to skinless, white-meat chicken breast, and being classified as "extra lean" meat.

How to Select and Buy Pork?

When buying pork, look for cuts with firm flesh and sweet smell, in pink color, and with the least marbling (thin threads of fat running through the meat) for a leaner option.

How to Select Cooking Method for Pork?

Being a mild flavored meat, cooking pork is very versatile as pork basically mingle well with different flavors. Embrace different cooking methods for different cuts of pork as long as we strive a balance of keeping a safe final cooked temperature and locking moisture in the meat. Dry heat cooking (roasting, broiling, grilling and pan-frying) holds true for tender pork cuts, such as bacon, steaks, chops, loin roasts and tenderloins. Moist heat cooking (braising, stewing, steaming, poaching, simmering and crockpot cooking) works well on less tender pork cuts, such as ribs, shoulder cubes and boneless Boston butt roasts.

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