Ingredients for a simple and delicious Cantonese style bacon pickling method
Six strips of pork belly? Each strip weighs more than a pound. Shredded ginger and garlic slices. Appropriate amount of soy sauce. Appropriate amount of salt. A little pepper, star anise, cinnamon, cloves. A few leaves? Or five-spice powder instead of white wine and a little dark soy sauce? Mainly to color the chicken. A little powder
Steps to make a simple and delicious Cantonese bacon pickling method
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Cut the pork belly into long, even strips.
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Cut a hole for drying.
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Slice the garlic and cut the ginger into strips.
Add chicken powder, five-spice powder, soy sauce and salt.
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White wine must be added, and the marinated meat will have the aroma of wine.
My mother would soak the bacon in white wine with spices more than a week in advance before drying it. Pour star anise, bay leaves, Sichuan peppercorns, dried chili peppers, etc. into white wine and brew for a week or more.
I was lazy and used five-spice powder, and it still tasted great.
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Put it in a cool place to marinate for one to two days. I made a little less juice this time. And I ran out of old soy sauce at home, so I planned to dry it in the sun for two or three days before marinating it again.
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Being smart like me, I kept the hemp rope I bought to string the sausages on. The rope is strong and comes in handy.
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Let it dry! In fact, it does not need to be exposed to the sun directly. If you put it in a ventilated place, it will dry well in dry weather.
Those bacons that have been dried in the sun are easy to get the smell of the sun. Do you know what the smell of the sun is? Haha, people here have this saying.
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What it looks like after three days of drying.
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In the end I didn’t add dark soy sauce because I thought the color was pretty good. If you like darker colors, remember to add them.
The sun-dried bacon is really fragrant, and it goes well with stir-fried garlic, lettuce and other vegetables. You can also make claypot rice^?_?^.