Tocino: Filipino Sweet Cured Pork or Bacon

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Dave in AZ

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I made a video showing whole quick process, takes just 10 min to make then 1-4 days curing.

This is a Filipino dish, a cured pork or thick bacon, usually very sweet, salty, and red-colored from anatto. It is usually used as a breakfast meat and is pretty much considered Filipino Bacon by my relatives.

Here I also use some at the end to make a common Filipino breakfast, garlic fried rice with tocino.

I make a 2kg batch here, about 4.4 lbs
Here is the recipe for 1kg, 1000g, where the spices are expressed as a percentage of the (meat+water), the best and common way sausage or cured meat recipes are written.

850g sliced pork shoulder, 1/4" thick
150g water, helps spread spices
3% brown sugar, 30g
2.5% salt, 25g
2% ground annatto, achiote powder, 20g
0.35% black pepper, 3.5g
1.9g of cure#1, gives 120ppm

Here is the video, just 8 min and also has Filipino tocino fried rice:
https://youtu.be/RvJSW1ex-5I
 
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