Pork lard is a valuable high-calorie product. It contains many amino acids, vitamins, trace elements necessary for the proper functioning of the body. Salting bacon will increase its shelf life and get a delicious ingredient for sandwiches.
It is necessary
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- 2 kg of lard;
- 800 g of salt;
- 0.25 tablespoon of basil;
- 0.25 tablespoon of hops-suneli;
- 1 bay leaf;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tablespoon of ground black pepper;
- 1 tablespoon of ground red pepper.
Instructions
Step 1
Buy a piece of lard. It should be fresh, white with a pinkish tinge on the cut. Be careful! Pork lard, which has a yellowish tint, will have an unpleasant aftertaste after salting.
Step 2
Wash the bacon under cold running water and pat dry with a paper towel.
Step 3
Prepare a mixture for salting lard. To do this, take coarse rock salt and mix it with dry basil, hop-suneli or any spices of your choice. You can take ready-made mixtures for pork, barbecue, meat dishes. You can add tarragon, cumin, coriander.
Step 4
Add chopped bay leaves to salt and spices.
Step 5
Cut the bacon into 6-7 cm pieces.
Step 6
Pour the pickling mixture into a wide bowl. Put one piece of bacon in it and rub it well with the salting mixture on all sides. Salt all the pieces in this way.
Step 7
Line a plastic container with cellophane so that the ends hang slightly around the edges of the container.
Step 8
Sprinkle some spiced salt on the bottom of the container and place the pieces of lard, grated with salt, tightly.
Step 9
Sprinkle a row of lard with salt, and put the second row of lard on top. Sprinkle with salt and it. Don't be afraid to oversalt the lard. It will take as much salt as needed.
Step 10
Place the lid on the container tightly and refrigerate. The fat will be salted out within 2 weeks.
Step 11
After two weeks, remove a few pieces of bacon from the bag. Rub some of them with red pepper, some with black, some with grated garlic. Place the bacon in different bags and release the air from them. Store lard in tightly sealed bags in the refrigerator. Remember that lard, grated with garlic, is stored worse than grated with pepper.
Step 12
Cut the salted bacon into thin slices and serve with hot boiled potatoes. If you wish, put horseradish, adjika, mustard on the table. Bon appetit!
