Pork cut: where it is, price, recipes
Top leg (ham top)
The top muscle of the leg, the largest and most tender part of the ham. Sliced thin it makes pork cutlets for schnitzel; tied, a lean roast best cooked just past pink.
- Pan-seared
- Roasted
$8/ lb
- In French
- Noix de jambon
- US side
- Fresh ham
- Where it sits
- Leg. Cooked, air-dried, smoked or roasted fresh: the same leg changes its name with each treatment.
- Tenderness
- 4/5
- Flavor
- 3/5
- Marbling
- 1/5
- Price
- $8 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~25 cm
