Homemade Bacon: Easy, Delicious, and Versatile

A delicious winter snack and ingredient for other dishes! Cook bacon at home — what could be easier? It will give you a snack, an addition to lunch, and a great way to make sandwiches or another, more complex dish.
cook time: 72h
Noah Merrick
Homemade Bacon: Easy, Delicious, and Versatile

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

350
Calories
11g
Fat
1g
Carbs
13g
Protein

Ingredients (10 portions)

Basic:

Garlic 3 clove
Salt 4 tbsp
Ground black pepper to taste
Bay leaf 2 pc
Peppercorns to taste
Bacon 500 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make homemade bacon? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. The part of the pork carcass for bacon must be of ideal quality — only in this case you will get truly delicious bacon.

Step 2

Step 2
Take a piece of brisket suitable for cooking bacon, cut off some of the fat with layers — this is exactly the kind of bacon we will cook today.

Step 3

Step 3
Cut the pork into pieces suitable for salting. I have these square pieces. You can make them narrow and oblong so that you can then cut them into “standard” thin pieces of bacon.

Step 4

Step 4
How to brine bacon at home? Prepare the curing mixture. To do this, take a suitable deep and wide dish. Add coarse salt to it. Cut the peeled garlic into petals or pass through a press. Add garlic to salt, add spices. Mix everything well.

Step 5

Step 5
Now roll the sliced pork pieces on all sides in the prepared salt mixture. Place a weight on top of the meat and put it in a cool place for three days for salting.

Step 6

Step 6
During these three days, turn the lard under pressure a couple of times so that the resulting brine penetrates evenly into the bacon.

Step 7

Step 7
After three days, homemade bacon is ready. Rinse off excess salt, pack in a plastic bag and store in the freezer, cutting into slices or cutting into small pieces as needed.

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