Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, 10 day pork belly cure for bacon. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Mix the salt, sugar and spices together and dust the bottom of a dish with a handful of mix. Apple-Smoked Cured Pork Belly, (Bacon) with the Smoke Hollow Pro Series Smoker. When you cure your own bacon, you get to control the quality of the meat and the ingredients it is cured with!
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 10 day pork belly cure for bacon using 4 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make 10 Day Pork Belly Cure for Bacon:
- Take 1 large pork belly joint (I used 1.2kgs)
- Get 2 cup fine salt
- Take 2 cup demerara sugar
- Get 1 medium handful of spices like peppercorns, Juniper berries, bay leaves or anything else you fancy
There is simply not enough demand to keep them in stock. This is where a local butcher or farmers market comes in handy. Local butchers have an advantage over supermarkets. Pink curing salt is a mix of salt and sodium nitrite.
Steps to make 10 Day Pork Belly Cure for Bacon:
- mix the salt, sugar and spices together and dust the bottom of a dish with a handful of mix(do not use a metal dish as it will react with the salt)
- put the pork belly into the dish and press down into the mix. then another handful of mix over the top and rub all over including the sides
- put into a fridge for 24hours more or less. careful as there will be liquid in the bottom. pour down the drain or in a bin
- rub another 2 handfuls of mix over the pork and back in the fridge
- try doing it in the morning so if u forget you have a day to remember
- keep repeating the 2 handfuls and fridge for 24 hours for 5 days. if there is mix left over just store it until next time. if there isn't enough just make abit more
- once the 5days are up drain the liquid and under the cold tap wash off the mix really well! rub with your hands and get into all the folds and groves
- pat dry and if you can hang outside for 5 days. if not outside then in a corner of your kitchen away from your cooker. if your worried about flies then cover with a cloth but don't wrap airtight
- once the 5 days are up then your ready to start chopping and cooking. either thinly slice for breakfast or thick sliced and cubed. however you like!
- thinly sliced and cooked to a crisp with scrambled egg in a roll is one of the many ways to enjoy
Follow this easy recipe for making bacon at home and save money at the grocery store. Tips for where to buy pork belly and curing are included. While most commercial bacon in the United States is smoked, bacon and many of its cured-meat cousins in other countries are cured but not smoked. As the cure dehydrates the bacon. Home cured bacon is super easy to make and amazingly delicious.
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