From The Ravenous Couple
Recently we’ve been on a culinary quest to make a holiday pork roast with the most irresistible crispy, crackly, and bubbly skin possible–the type of crispy crackling that will have guests fighting over and craving for more. What immediately came to mind was the Italian style porchetta of San Francisco fame, Roli Roti , and the Vietnamese preparation of roasted pork belly called heo quay, also called sieu yuk in Chinese, and lechon kawali in the Filipino version. The common thread among these versions is the unmistakable crackly skin, but how to achieve that in the home kitchen is another matter entirely. The internet is replete with crispy roasted pork recipes advocating different techniques from deep frying , to salting , and basting with rice vinegar to achieve that holy grail of pork skin crispiness.
Porchetta (Heo Quay)
From these attempts we’ve identified several key steps that consistently gets good results, but first let’s understand what this crispy, bubbly, crackly skin is all about. Essentially what this represents is a second degree burn of the pork skin. We have to have expose the skin to enough heat to burn through the thick layer of skin to get bubbly blisters without charring it. At the same time, this heat will render out fat and contract the skin, resulting in the desirable hardened and crackly and not rubbery texture. The second key step is to make the skin as dry as possible. Leaving the skin to dry overnight or 24 hrs in the fridge while the dry seasoning rub permeates on the belly side helps both in terms of crackly skin and flavor. Finally, scoring the skin helps render the fat, also helping to crispen the skin. However, there are also many ways to score the skin from diamonds to simple slits, to tiny pricks with nails. There is no one correct way, but we like to keep the skin intact so we use the tip of a sharp knife to prick the skin all over (some Asian markets sell meat tenderizers embedded with many nails).
Read the full article and get the recipe from the Ravenous Couple.
Thị trường nhà ở Bay Area (vùng Vịnh San Francisco), đang nóng lên trở lại,…
Số lượng trẻ em mất cha mẹ vì bạo lực súng đạn tăng 39% -…
California là tiểu bang đi đầu trong việc khuyến khích xe điện, cho nên có…
Một người thiệt mạng khi rơi từ hàng ghế cao ở vận động trường đại…
Chính quyền Tổng Thống Joe Biden đình hoãn vận chuyển đạn dược do Hoa Kỳ…
Nam Việt/SGN Nhà báo David Hutt, mới đây viết trên tờ Asia Sentinel rằng nỗ…
This website uses cookies.