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Dry Cured Bacon

Dry Cured Bacon recipe, eat well on universal credit

I chose Pork Loin for this as the belly Pork available at the moment is very fatty and doesn’t look overly appealing. So the end result will be Back Bacon. You need to be pretty precise when using Saltpetre so I reduced to weight to almost exactly 1Kg by taking the rind off and cutting a couple of steaks from one end so that we’ll be able to cut even rasters when it has cured.

Rub ingredients:-

22.5g of Pink Salt
22.5g of Sugar
2G of Saltpetre
1 Tsp of Smoked Paprika
1 Tsp of mixed Herbs
1 Tsp of fresh ground Black Pepper.

Method:-

(1) Trim the Pork Loin to as near to 1Kg as possible.
(2) Mix the rub ingredients in a bowl.
(3) Apply the rub evenly over the entire surface.
(4) Place in a tub in the fridge loosely covered.
(5) Turn daily for 3 weeks.

As the meat cures it will loose about 10% of the water content. This accumulates in the tub and will naturally evaporate in the fridge.

See you all in 3 weeks, hopefully with some outstanding Bacon!

 

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Chicken & Mushroom Pasta / Rice Noodles

Ingredients:-

Cooked Chicken, chopped
1 medium Onion, diced
2 cloves of Garlic, minced
Chicken stock
Mushrooms, roughly chopped
Frozen Peas
Milk
2 tbsp of Creme Freche
Cheese, grated
Salt & Pepper
Italian style grated Cheese to garnish

Method:-

(1)  Fry the Onion until translucent, add the Garlic and cook for 2 minutes on a lower heat.
(2) Add the Mushroom and Chicken stock and simmer.
(3) Add the Milk, Chicken and Peas and simmer.
(4) Season with Salt & Pepper.
(5) Stur in the Creme Freche followed by the grated Cheese and simmer until the Cheese has melted.

We served ours on a bed of Chinese Rice Noodles as a change from Gluten free Pasta which worked equally well. This dish was inspired by Sue's Chicken Skillet Pasta, which was a great seller when we were at The Inn on The Green a couple of years ago.

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