Chicharrones.

Okay, here’s just a quick post with a pretty picture of deep fried pork skin. I tried David Changs method and even though he says drying the skin in the oven is unreliable, it turned out to work great for me.

Chicharrónes

The taste of the deep fried crunchy pieces for themselves is kind of neutral and just a little bit pork-ish, but once you give them a little flavor with japanese 7 spice powder the thing gets more interesting. The fat brings out the flavor of the spice and suddenly it’s a great snack. I will definitely have to try to put it on other food, like croutons or something.

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  • http://www.mangiodasola.com Memoria

    These chicharrones (no accent mark when in the plural form because the natural stress falls on the next to last syllable) have such a lovely color!! I’ve been wanting to make chicharrones for a long time. I like that you used the oven to dry out the skin.

  • Benjamin Emmanuel

    Haha, thanks a lot for correcting my mistake… It’s always great to learn!

    The whole process is relatively easy but kind of time consuming. Cooking the skin, scraping off the fat, drying it in the oven and later deep frying. But it’s so nice to see this little dry thing puff up in like 8 times its original size!

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