Canadian Bacon
Tips For Making Canadian Bacon Brine the pork loin for 3 days. You need to add the pink curing salts. If you skip adding them, you will have smoked pork loin and not the hamminess of Canadian bacon. Dry out the pork loin in the …
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Smoked Pork Shoulder (Dry Rubbed)
Tips For Smoking A Dry Rubbed Pork Shoulder Rub the pork shoulder in a thin layer of mustard. The mustard acts as a binder, allowing the dry rub to stick better to the pork shoulder. Marinate the shoulder overnight in the refrigerator. Use a bone …
Stir Fried Green Beans with Ground Pork
Stir Fried Green Beans with Ground Pork
This is another great dish that takes minimal effort to prepare and only 10 minutes to cook. Add all the marinade ingredients to the pork. Sauté it for 5 minutes. Add the green beans, bean paste and sugar and sauté for a few minutes more. Serve over steamed rice or noodles.
Ingredients
- 8 oz ground pork
- 2 tbsp Shaoxing cooking wine
- 1 tsp light soy sauce
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp ginger grated
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup green onions chopped
- 8 oz green beans trimmed and cut into 1” pieces
- 2 tbsp fermented bean paste
- 1 tsp sugar
Instructions
- Season the ground pork with the cooking wine, soy sauces, and ginger.
- Heat up the cooking oil in a sauté pan over medium high heat. Sauté the green onions for a minute.
- Add in the ground pork. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Addin the bean paste, sugar, and green beans. Sauté for a minute.
- Cover. Turn the heat down to medium low. Sauté for 3 minutes.
Smoked Pork Shoulder (brined)
Tips For Smoking Pork Shoulder Always choose a bone in butt. You will know when the pork shoulder is finished cooking when you can pull the bone out clean. Brine the pork butt for 24 hours. Pat dry with paper towel to allow the smoke …
Yakitori
Yakitori
Yakitori are skewered parts of chicken sold as street food all over Japan. And by parts, I mean every part. Popular types of yakitori include chicken and green onion(negima), chicken thigh(momo), gizzard(hasami), breast(sasami), chicken skin(tori), wing(tebesaki), butt(bonjiri), heart(hatsu), liver(reba), gizzard(sunagimo), chicken cartilage(nankotsu), and intestines(shiro). The parts are skewered and grilled over small box charcoal grills. They are either brushed with a sweet glaze called tare sauce, or simply seasoned with sea salt. Yakitori isn’t limited to just chicken. Pork belly, quail eggs, duck heart, shishito peppers, beef tongue, enoki mushrooms wrapped in bacon, bacon wrapped asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, chorizo, deep fried tofu, and chicken meatballs, are all popular varieties of yakitori; just to name a few.If you don’t have a grill, you can make the yakitori under your oven’s broiler. Place the oven’s rack at the very top. When skewering up the yakitori, it is important to make sure that all the pieces of meat are uniform; about 1”. Place the yakitori on a rack on a baking pan lined in foil. Broil for 3 minutes a side. Then brush the top with the yakitori sauce. Broil for 2 minutes. Flip. Brush with more yakitori sauce. Broil for 2 more minutes. Brush with more sauce. Yada, yada, yada…They all take about 10 minutes in total.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- 20-8” wooden skewers, soaked in water for 60 minutes
Ingredients
Yakitori Sauce
- 2/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup sake
- 1/3 cup mirin
Yakitori Proteins
- 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs cut into 1” cubes
- 8 chicken livers cut into 1” pieces
- 16 duck hearts
- 3/4 lb pork belly skinned; cut into 1” cubes
- 20 quail eggs
- 8 green onions cut into 1 1/2” pieces
Instructions
- Bring all of the yakitori sauce ingredients to a boil over medium heat for 10 minutes until it is thick.
- Set the sauce aside and let cool.
- Skewer up all of the proteins with 4 pieces of meat per skewer. Put a piece of green onion in between every piece of chicken thigh and piece of pork belly.
- Turn on your oven’s broiler. Place the oven’s rack on the very top, closest to the burner. Place the yakitori on a rack on a baking pan lined with foil.
- Cook the yakitori for 3 minutes a side.
- Brush the top side with the yakitori sauce. Broil for 2 minutes.
- Flip the yakitori. Brush with more sauce. Broil for another 2 minutes.
- Brush all of the yakitori with more of the sauce.
Menchi Katsu
Menchi Katsu
Menchi katsu is a hybrid of a hamburger and tonkatsu. A 50/50 blend of ground beef and pork are mixed with onions, seasonings, egg, and breadcrumbs, then formed into patties. The patties are then dredged in flour, dipped in an egg wash, then breaded in panko. The patties are then fried crispy and served over shredded cabbage. The patties are then drizzled with tonkatsu sauce, which you can purchase at any Asian market.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 8 oz ground beef
- 8 oz ground pork
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 medium white onion finely chopped
- 1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- flour
- panko bread crumbs
- vegetable oil for frying
- tonkatsu sauce
- green cabbage finely shredded
Instructions
- Mix together the ground beef and pork, onion, 1 large egg, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and 1/4 cup of panko breadcrumbs. Form into 4 equal sized patties.
- Dredge the patties in flour.
- Dip the patties in 1 large beaten egg.
- Dredge the patties in panko breadcrumbs.
- Heat up cooking oil in a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Place the patties in the oil.
- Fry for 6 minutes a side.
