I have salted some bacon since the winter solstice. Because the container is too small, only a small piece can be salted at a time. Recently, we have been pickling one piece a week, steaming it, eating it in soup, or frying it, and cooking bacon meal. Very delicious, tender and appetizing, very delicious. I also salted half of the chicken yesterday. Now the bacon bought in the shop is only salty, and very old, not at all delicious, and in order to make the color of the meat better, it will also put some chemicals, which is not good for the body. So I had to do it myself. The bacon you marinate is 100 times more delicious than the bacon you bought. Today, Im going to introduce you how to marinate the delicious bacon by yourself.
Tips
1. Dont wash meat when its bought. Its easy to deteriorate if its stained with raw water. Its better to let the surface of the meat blow dry and then marinate.
2. Rib meat is very tender because it is fat and thin. If you are afraid of oil, you can also use sandwich meat or leg meat to marinate, but feel less tasty than rib meat
3, the amount of pepper salt is determined by yourself, more pepper salt is salty, if you want to not be too salty, you can wipe a thin layer of it.
4. Never use stainless steel or aluminium in containers. Its better to use a bowl or a jar or something. My mother used to use these pickles, but I dont have them myself, and theres nowhere to buy them now. So I use ceramic pots, and I can use natural materials such as enamel pots.
5. Heavy objects pressed on them should not be made of stainless steel or aluminium. Its better to use natural stones, because I dont have any stones, so I press a small ceramic pot on it, and then press a stack of newspapers on it as a heavy object. I think you should think of a better way.
6. Hot pepper and salt must be rubbed all over the meat, and every day to turn it, help it turn, is conducive to a more uniform pickling.
7. Every day when turning over the meat, we should also smell the fragrance of the meat. If it is very fragrant, there is no problem. If it is not fragrant or has some peculiar smell, we should deal with it in time. But generally now as long as the temperature is relatively low, there will be no problem. Like at about 13 degrees at room temperature in Shanghai, my pickled meat is no problem. If the temperature is lower, it is good for pickled bacon.
8. Its better to use liquor, which will be more fragrant.
9. Dont spend too long in the sun. One or two days is enough. Then you can cut it into small pieces and freeze it. Its more convenient to eat.
10. The general time for pickling bacon is from the beginning of winter solstice to the end of early spring. It seems that the beginning of spring this year is February 4, and there are three or four weeks left.