The specific steps are as follows:
Step 1: Prepare pork belly. I have prepared 15kg pork belly here. I don't need to wash it. Cut into strips, about 3 to 5 cm wide. Add 100g liquor, 3 tablespoons sugar, and half a bag of salt, and stir well by hand. Be sure to stir it several times and grasp it evenly. Step 2: After stirring evenly, put the pork belly into a deep dish, add a little white wine to the surface, flatten the meat slightly, and then let it stand and marinate for 36 hours. ?
Step 3: After the meat is marinated, prepare some cotton thread, insert a hole in one end of the meat with chopsticks, and then take a cotton thread through it. The length of the line can be hung up. Step 4: After putting all the meat on cotton thread, hang the meat in the tuyere or in the sun for one day. One day is enough, not too dry.
Step 5: After the pork belly is dried for a day, take it down and prepare a bottle of five-flavor wine. These five flavors of wine are our Hakka secret spices. It is made by grinding star anise, cinnamon, fragrant leaves, fennel and clove into powder and soaking them in high-concentration liquor for several months. Every year, I make a big bottle in advance to make bacon and braised pork in Chinese New Year. You can go to the drugstore to mix five flavors of powder. ?
Step 6: Pour a proper amount of spiced wine into a hot pot, add some light soy sauce, heat it, turn off the heat, and soak the pork belly piece by piece, which can be colored and seasoned, and the taste is particularly fragrant. Step 7: put the soaked meat back on the plate, pour the remaining juice on the meat, then marinate it for one night and take it to the sun the next day.
Step 8: Hang the salted meat again and let it dry for about a week. This is air-dried bacon. Before cooking, you must watch the weather forecast to make sure the weather is good, otherwise the meat will go bad.
This Hakka bacon is ready. If you don't want the bacon to be too dry, you can take it down early and freeze it in the refrigerator. Stir-fried or stewed rice is especially fragrant. Like a friend to try it! Is this how your bacon is made?