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Ham hock

Ham hock is pork that includes muscle and skin. Cooks boil, simmer, braise, roast, or stew it, and pair it with pinto beans, onion, or sauerkraut.

  • Meat
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens
  • Pork depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Muscle, skin
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Hungary
Ham hock, cooked

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use ham hock

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Braise
  • Roast
  • Season
  • Stew

Cooking with it

Cook hocks for a long time, such as in a stew or braise, to make their connective tissue palatable.

Goes well with

On the table

Dishes made with ham hock

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Csülök pékné módra

    Hungary

  • Golonka

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include ham hock.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: ham hock in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: meatChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
Depends on the product (depends on which animal the meat comes from)

Family

Related forms

A kind of
pork

Around the world

What ham hock is called

Names in 34 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    codillo de cerdo

  • French

    jarret de porc

  • Italian

    stinco di maiale

  • Portuguese

    eisbein · eisben

  • German

    Hachse · Knöchle · Bötel · Knöchala

  • Dutch

    eisbein

  • Russian

    рулька · айсбайн

  • Polish

    golonka · golonko

  • Hebrew

    שוק חזיר

  • Bangla

    হ্যাম হক

  • Chinese

    猪肘 · 肘子 · 猪肘子 · 卤猪肘

  • Japanese

    シュバイネハクセ · ジャレ・ドゥ・ポール · 豚のすね肉

Show all 34 languages

  • Afrikaans

    varkskenkel

  • Albanian

    proshutë

  • Basque

    Txerri-ukondo

  • Bavarian

    Sauhax · Schweinshaxn

  • Belarusian

    галёнка

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    галёнка

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    eisbein

  • Cantonese

    元蹄

  • Colognian

    Hämmche · Eisbein

  • Czech

    vepřové koleno

  • Danish

    eisbein

  • Esperanto

    porka kruraĵo

  • Finnish

    eisbein

  • Korean

    햄 혹

  • Limburgish

    iesbein · sjeenkske

  • Luxembourgish

    Héiss

  • Malayalam

    ഹാം ഹോക്ക്

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    eisbein · schweinshaxe · svineknoke

  • Palatine German

    Schwainshax

  • Punjabi

    ਹੈਮ ਹੌਕ

  • Simplified Chinese

    猪肘 · 肘子

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    肘子

  • Slovak

    pečené koleno

  • Swedish

    fläsklägg

  • Swiss High German

    Eisbein

  • Ukrainian

    рулька

  • Vietnamese

    chân giò

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q153976

Photos

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons