25 Of The Most Amazing Mexican Chicharrones Food
CHICHARRONES TACOS
A wildly popular Latin snack food throughout the Americas, chicharrones are made from pork belly that has been cooked for a long time with the skin on, and contains a little meat (what we think of as pork rinds in the United States). Though usually eaten as a crispy snack, they also make a tasty taco filling when heated in a sauce until softened and chewy. The most unusual chicharrones are those made from the whole pork skin fried in one piece-they're about four feet long by two feet wide and resemble some dried prehistoric animal. You'll see them for sale on weekends along the highways in areas of Mexico where there are a lot of pigs, sometimes next to a huge pot of pork fat boiling over an open fire. They're almost always made to order; you stop and buy a piece or buy the whole thing. I'm guessing you only see them by the highways because they are so enormous you need a car or pickup truck to get one home.
Categories Sauce Pork Side Kosher
Yield makes 10 tacos
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- In a large, heavy skillet, add the pork fat and salt and cook over low heat until the pork has fully rendered its fat and the pieces are puffed and airy, about 40 minutes. Transfer the chicharrones to a large saucepan, add the tomatillo salsa, and cook on medium-high heat until the sauce is almost dried up and coats the chicharrones, about 9 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and serve immediately, or keep warm in the pan until ready to serve.
- To serve, lay the tortillas side by side, open face and overlapping on a platter. Divide the filling equally between the tortillas and top with garnish and salsa. Grab, fold, and eat right away. Or build your own taco: lay a tortilla, open face, in one hand. Spoon on some filling, top with garnish and salsa, fold, and eat right away.
CHICHARRóN CASERA
Large jagged sheets of chicharrón, or pork crackling, can be found at any Mexico City market. Homemade chicharrón is wonderful with pico de gallo, any salsa, guacamole, or cooked in green sauce and served in a taco when soft.
Provided by Lesley Téllez
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 250°F.
- Cut the skin into large, wide pieces, about 6 inches long by 4 inches wide.
- Place the skin on a rack set over a baking sheet and bake for 1 hour. Lower the heat to 200°F and bake for 2 to 3 more hours, until the skin is a dark caramel brown and the top is no longer moist or sticky. (The bottom may still be slightly moist with fat.) Wash the rack and baking sheet, return the rack to the pan, and set them next to the stove.
- Heat the oil in a large Dutch oven over high heat. When very hot (at least 320°F), add a piece of pork skin. After about 30 seconds, it should bubble and puff up into a chicharrón. Flip if necessary to make sure both sides are cooked. Once puffy and golden brown, transfer to your prepared baking sheet and season with salt. Repeat with the remaining pieces of pork skin.
- Serve as soon as the pieces have cooled, with salsa or guacamole if desired. Or store the pieces in an airtight container for snacking later. They will keep for up to 5 days.
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- Place 2 oz. (1½ cups) chicharrones in a medium resealable freezer bag and seal bag, pushing out air (or, you can wrap up in a clean kitchen towel). Using a heavy skillet or rolling pin, crush into pea-size pieces; set aside for serving.
- Heat a dry large skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium-high. Toast remaining 6 oz. (4½ cups) chicharrones in skillet, tossing occasionally, until lightly charred on several sides, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl.
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- To test when the oil is hot enough to cook the chicharrones, add one to the oil. If it starts to puff within 3 seconds, then it's ready to start batch cooking.
- Carefully drop a few chicharrones at the time into the hot oil. Keep moving them as needed if there are spots that are not cooking evenly. They cook in less than a minute per batch.
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- Procure Some Pork Skin. Depending on where you live, this might be the hardest part of making chicharrónes: you need to procure 1 1/2 to 2 pounds of fresh pork skin.
- Cut the pork skin into large pieces. The easiest way to cook chicharrónes is to roast the pork skin in large-ish pieces—about 6 inches long by 4 inches wide is a good manageable size.
- Roast the pork skin. Before you deep-fry the pork skin into puffy chicharrones, you need to roast it for a few hours at low heat to dry it out. Extra fat will drip out of the skin during this phase, so arrange the pork skin on a wire rack set inside a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet to catch the drips.
- Heat the frying oil. Traditionally, chicharrónes are fried in lard, but that can get a little stinky to do at home, so you can use canola, grapeseed oil, or another vegetable oil with a high smoke point instead.
- Deep-fry the chicharrónes. Add a piece of your roasted pork skin and watch it closely. It should start to bubble and pop and expand within 30 seconds—if it doesn't, your oil isn't hot enough.
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