FOOD PREPARATIONS: PORK TOCINO

Pork Tocino

·         1 kilo pork loin

·         ½ TBSP salt

·         9-12 TBSP sugar

·         ½ TSP curing salt (praque powder)

·         1 TSP phosphate

·         ¼ cup water

·         2 TBSP anisado wine

·         ½ TSP MSG

·         1 tab 250 mg ascorbic acid (crushed)

·         ¼ cup pineapple juice (sweetened)

·         4 cloves minced garlic

·         Food coloring (red)

Procedure:

1. Wash hands and prepare everything that’s needed.

2. Slice pork thinly like tapa and set aside.

3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the salt, sugar, curing salt, phosphate, anisado wine, pine apple juice and MSG. Add a drop or two of red coloring in ¼ cup water and add to the mixture.

4. Add minced garlic and mix the mixture thoroughly.

5. Put the pork and by means of clean washed hands, mix the curing mixture thoroughly into the pork.

6. Let the pork stand in its marinade for 8 - 10hours in a refrigerator, not in the freezer compartment. After 8 – 10 hours, transfer the tocino into a plastic cellophane and store it in the freezer compartment ready for use.

ENJOY!!!