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Salt pork is cured pork belly that isn’t smoked, so consider it almost-bacon. It’s used for flavor and the pure fat that you can render and use for cooking. Here, how to buy it, store it and cook with it.

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Once you make this Air Fryer Bacon recipe from Evolving Table, it will soon become the ONLY way you'll ever want to cook it! Bacon is roasted from all sides until the majority of the fat drips off and you're left with ultra crispy and perfectly cooked strips. Not only is it a healthier method but it's also much faster than cooking in a skillet or baking in the oven - it's ready in just 10 minutes!

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30-min. Easy Chinese Salt and Pepper Pork

Chinese Salt and Pepper Pork. Delicious pork strips shallow fried and seasoned in a flavourful aromatic salt and pepper seasoning. These easy salt and pepper pork chops are quick to make in under 30 minutes and tasty. Great for dinner, lunch or leftovers! #pork #recipe #asianfood #chinese #chinesefood #chineserecipe #asianrecipe #dinner #maindish #lunch #meat #protein #quickmeal #easymeal

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Salt pork has always seemed a very old-fashioned American ingredient; we think of Little House on the Prairie and other stories of pioneers with only long-lasting salt pork to give a little meaty flavor to their meals. Well, salt pork is still around, and it’s very cheap, very easy to use, and a little goes a long, long way.

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Every region has its traditional cooking fat. In France, it’s butter. In Italy, olive oil, and in Mexico, lard. Here in New England, it’s salt pork. In colonial New England, salt pork was made from the odds and ends of the pig, tossed together in a pork barrel or crock with a salt cure or brine, and drawn on and replenished on a regular basis. It kept well, making it an ideal ration for sailors and other travelers, and lent richness and flavor to all kinds of dishes, particularly during the…

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This recipe for Chinese Salt & Pepper Pork is a restaurant favorite, featuring crunchy fried pork chunks seasoned with salt, pepper and aromatics.

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