Smoked bacon – a detailed recipe for cooking. друзьями: 
The photodishes: Charles Masters Time: 3 hours. 30 min. Difficulty: Medium B recipes use measured containers with a volume of: 1 glass (tbsp.) – 240 ml 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cups (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp. l.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 2.2 kg skinless pork belly
- 1/4 Art. salt
- 2 tsp pink salt for canning
- 1/4 Art. brown sugar
- 1/4 Art. honey
- 2 tbsp. l red pepper flakes
- 2 tbsp. l smoked paprika sweet
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
Recipes with similar ingredients: pork, bacon, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, paprika, cumin, honey
Recipe preparation:
- Rinse pork belly and dry. Put in a lockable a plastic bag of 7 liters. In a bowl, mix the usual salt, canning salt, brown sugar, honey, red pepper, paprika and cumin. Cover the pork with the whole mixture.
- Close the bag and refrigerate for 7 to 10 days, turning once a day so that the pork is soaked well. For pork of small thickness, 7 days are needed if thicker. pieces – then up to 10 days.
- Remove the pork belly from the bag, rinse thoroughly and dry. Put in the refrigerator for 48 hours.
- Light the coals and keep the temperature at 95 degrees. Put the pork belly on the wire rack, and using apple chips, smoke for 3 hours, or until the bacon heats inside to 65 degrees.
- Remove the skin (optional), then chop and cook as desired. desire. Wrap the bacon in plastic wrap, refrigerate and store up to 1 week or freeze and store for up to 2 months. 1.5 kg. Note Hygroscopic (pink) salt for canning is a mixture of salt and sodium nitrate (not confuse with sodium nitrite, it prevents the development of botulism). It keeps the sausage pink and gives an appetizing aroma. You can find such salt in specialized stores or order in Online Stores. E251 – Sodium Nitrate (Food Grade) preservative) E250 – Sodium nitrite (antioxidant and preservative) If you do not have a smokehouse, you can cook pork belly marinated in smoke liquid, and for this bake it in the oven at 100 degrees until it warms up inside up to 70 degrees by culinary thermometer (
Time for preparing
may vary; check in 2 hours).
