This is my 1st dish with bacon (Asparagus Bacon)
Ingredients:
Pork belly (五花肉肥瘦均匀), salt, italian herbs, black pepper...
Direction:
1.
Wash
with water (bit cold), rinsing with rice wine. Dry it. Cut the skin off. Prick the meat
with a fork.
2.
Dry
curing with salt-based rub. Rub salt on the meat, cover it (this step is important,
let the salt do its magic over a period of time). Massage it up and down. Leave it for 20+minutes. (you could wash it some salt if you want, but have to keep in DRY)
3.
It’s
time for your other curing ingredients. This is where you can let your creative
juices flow. Some options are maple syrup, sugar, soy sauce, red pepper, black
pepper, chili pepper, paprika, whatever…go nuts
My simple ingredients are: (Italian
herbs) fresh rosemary, thyme, black pepper… mixed it and marinated. If don't have fresh, dried also can. Main for bactericidal effect.
* you can try my recipe for
first round as a baseline and then deviate from it towards
hot/spicy/salty once you know what a basic homemade bacon tastes like.
4.
Put
on tray (肉底下留空隙,风干效果) and cover (不能封密) it. Keep in fridge. Obverse upside
down everyday for about 5 days. You will
see beautiful color of the meat.
5.
Put
in the freeze for at least 2 hours. Frozen meat easy to cut into thin slices.
Keep the bacon neatly in zip lock plastic bag and keep in the freeze for future
use.
Your
homemade bacon ~ DONE!
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