@rolling_bones_bbq Home made bacon š½ #bacon #smokedmeat #candiedbacon #pork #porkbelly #bbqtok #foodie #grilling #rollingbonesbbq ā¬ This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan Intro:Ā This recipe takes bringing home the bacon to a new level. It's incredibly simple, just mix a few dry ingredients together, wait for a bit, then smoke and you have bacon. We went the extra mile to make this bacon even more exciting by quasi-candying it, but you can simply cook however you like bacon. Ā Ingredients:
- 5 lbsĀ skin off pork belly. If you can get a center cut piece of belly, it'll have more meat and yield a supreme bacon. That's a good bad name, "Supreme Bacon."
For the cure:
- 5 tablespoons coarse kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 3 tablespoons coarse ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon (about 4.5 grams) pink curing salt number 1
For the caramel sauce (enough for about 1lb of caramelized bacon):
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon Chinese 5 spice
- 1 tablespoon coarse ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes
- (optional) flat leaf parsley for garnish
Instructions:
- watch the video :)
- mixĀ cure ingredients together
- Cover the slab of pork belly in the cure, including the sides. Put the belly in a zip lock bag with the remaining cure and put it in the refrigerator. I like to place this on top of a sheet pan in case there is any leakage
- After 7 days, wash the rub off your pork belly and set your smoker up for 200 degrees
- Smoke your pork belly until ~150 degrees F internal and then remove from the smoker.
- Let cool and wham bam, bacon my friend
- Slice to desire thickness and cook to your preference. What follows below is a riff on anĀ Adam Perry LangĀ recipe for candied bacon and it's out of this world
- Preheat over to 375 degrees F
- Cut 16 bacon slices 1/4 inch thick, about 1lbs totalĀ
- Mix caramel sauce ingredients together and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently
- Once boiling, remove from heat
- Dip bacon in sauce and spread on sheet pans in a single layer
- Cook bacon on pan in over until crispy about 20-30 minutes, flipping half way
- Garnish with chopped parsley, serve as is, on a BLT, make a bacon, egg and cheese, go nucking futs with this one.
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