Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, smoked canadian bacon. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Smoked Canadian Bacon is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Smoked Canadian Bacon is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
It is exactly what you want if you are making Eggs McMuffins or Eggs Benedict. The texture and moistness is much better. What's "Canadian bacon" to Americans is most likely called back bacon elsewhere.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have smoked canadian bacon using 7 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Smoked Canadian Bacon:
- Make ready 1 large pork loin
- Prepare 1 morton's tenderquick
- Prepare 1 pure maple syrup
- Take 1 onion powder
- Make ready 1 garlic powder
- Get 1 dark brown sugar
- Get 1 hardwood for smoking
Making Canadian Bacon at home is easy - if you've ever brined a Thanksgiving turkey, this is way less hassle than that. Basic Dry Cured and Smoked Canadian Bacon For Canadian bacon the pork loin is used. Prior to weighing the meat it should be trimmed of any unwanted fat and silver skin. In conclusion "Canadian Bacon" is a smoked pork product, made in the United States to suit the US market.
Instructions to make Smoked Canadian Bacon:
- Remove silver skin and trim fat away from pork loin
- If pork loin is large cut into approximately 2 to 3 pound loafs
- The ratios of ingredients are 1 tablespoon of Morton's tenderquick per pound and the dark brown sugar garlic powder and onion powder is one teaspoon per pound
- For example a two pound chub would have 2 tablespoons of tender quick and 2 teaspoons each of remaining ingredients
- Once you have determined your measurements mix all dry ingredients together
- The maple syrup is not mandatory for this so I use just enough with the dry ingredients 2 distribute them evenly
- If you opt to not use the maple syrup it is crucial that you evenly distribute the dry ingredients
- Once you have evenly distributed on the pork loin place in a ziploc bag (I double bag for safety) and place in 35 to 40 degree fridge for six days,massaging daily
- The tender quick cures the pork to inhibit botulism from forming
- After 6 days remove from the bag and immerse in cold water for 30 minutes
- Now you can slice a piece off and throw it in a frying pan and fry it up to see if its too salty
- If it is still too salty repeat step 10
- Pat pork loin dry and place on plate in refrigerator uncovered overnight
- This allows pellicule (rind)to form on the outside
- Pick the hardwood of your choice to smoke with. I prefer something mild such as maple or Apple
- set your smoker temperature to 225 °
- 2 hours of smoke and bring the internal temperature of the bacon to 140°
- wrap in aluminum foil until cool enough to handle
- Wrap in plastic wrap or vacuum seal and place in refrigerator for 48 hours to mellow out
- after 48 hrs. slice in 1/8" pieces or however thick you choose
- you can omit any of the ingredients as long as you keep the Morton's tenderquick
So for this Smoked Canadian Bacon recipe, all you need is Pork Loin, Kosher Salt, Sugar, Prague Powder, Powder Garlic, Warm distilled water, and Black Peppercorns. This loin-cut smoked Bacon is not cured. Fans of Canadian bacon will rejoice this recipe for making flavorful smoked pork loin at home. Making Canadian bacon or back bacon is more like curing a ham than making American bacon. More like ham than bacon, Canadian bacon is a cured, lightly smoked pork loin—much leaner than regular bacon, which comes from pork belly.
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