Bacon is a special meat product, part of the pork carcass without bones and cartilages, from the side in a special way of a fattened animal. The layers of meat in bacon are interspersed with thin interlayers of fat. Bacon is used for cooking various dishes: fried eggs, sandwiches, various snacks, salads, soups, etc.
You can buy ready cooked-smoked bacon or cook homemade, so you will be sure of the cooking methods and quality.
Tell you how to cook bacon at home, these recipes can be said to be traditional for our rural residents, proven methods and technologies.
Salted home-made bacon
Ingredients:
- bacon pork raw with skin - about 2 kg;
- salt - about 500 g;
- dry ground spices (coriander seeds, cloves, bay leaf, black pepper, etc.);
- garlic;
- berries of juniper - 10-20 pieces. (if you find it).
Preparation
We need a container in the size of the piece, preferably with a lid (enameled or plastic). If required, cut the meat into smaller pieces so that they are compactly placed in the container. Mix salt with spices, add crushed juniper berries. Sprinkle the bottom of the container and lay the pieces of bacon. Abundantly fall asleep on top with a mixture of salt and spices. Add the chopped garlic, cover the container and place in the refrigerator. It will be even better if you put the plates with oppression. After 24 hours, drain the released liquid. Once again we fall asleep with a salt mixture. Repeat the cycle twice more, each time merging the juice. After 4 days, the salted home bacon is ready.
Preparation of baked bacon at home
This recipe is good for family holidays.
Ingredients:
- pork bacon raw with skin;
- garlic;
- dry ground spices (black and red pepper, coriander seeds, etc.);
- common salt.
Preparation
Bacon in the form of large pieces sprinkled with a mixture of salt with dry spices, spin garlic and packed separately each piece into foil. Bake in the oven at a temperature of about 180-200 ° C for 40 minutes. Even in the process of cooking around the house will be spread a wonderful, incomparable smell, your home will joyfully inhale and swallow saliva in anticipation of a meal. Before slicing, baked home bacon will still have to cool, at least a little. We cut it in thinly wide slices and beautifully laid out on a serving dish. We make greenery. We eat restrained - flies away at the moment.
Boiled homemade bacon - recipe
Ingredients:
- bacon pork raw with skin (brisket, podsherevok, just fat);
- spices dry;
- onion husks;
- aromatic herbs (parsley, coriander, dill, etc.);
- garlic;
- salt.
Preparation
Bacon (or what you cook), cut into large pieces, we spin garlic and boil in a small amount of water with onion peel and salt (salt should be 2-3 times more than in soup). Cook for 40 minutes. 15 minutes before the end of the process, add spices and herbs. Cool in broth, then extract and put under oppression for at least an hour at 2.
Homemade bacon marinated
Ingredients:
- Bacon or brisket with skin - no more than 2 kg;
- sugar - 2 teaspoons;
- salt - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- spices dry (see previous recipes);
- vinegar fruit natural 3-5% (better wine light) - 3-5 seconds. spoons;
- lemon juice and / or lime;
- rum, table light homemade wine or grape brandy - 60 ml;
- garlic;
- fragrant fresh herbs, including black currant leaves (only not onions).
Preparation
Bacon in the form of large pieces of garlic, we put it compactly in a tight container and pour the marinade, prepared from the remaining ingredients. The container is covered and placed in the refrigerator for 3 days. In the process of marinating, we turn the pieces when the bacon is ready, we extract and put it under oppression. To give a pan-Asian flavor, you can add a little soy sauce to the marinade. Pickled homemade bacon is ready to eat, but if you want, you can bake it now (see above) or smudge using natural fruit filings (smoking, in general, a separate topic).