Tocino Recipe (Sweet Cured Pork)

Another Filipino dish that my hometown, Pampanga, is famous for is our Tocino. It is usually served for breakfast together with fried garlic rice. Tocino Recipe (Sweet Cured Pork) Tocino is a sweet cured meat typically served as Filipino breakfast. Try this easy and simple pork tocino recipe for that sweet, savory and tender tocino.| www.foxyfolksy.com Tocino is typically a cured meat, may it be pork, beef or chicken. The more popular kind of tocino is sweet, but us Kapampangan have a special kind called 'Pindang' which has added tanginess to it.

The process of making tocino varies, but to achieve that soft and tender meat, Kapampangans mix all the ingredients together by hand for 3-5 hours then leave it covered overnight at room temperature before putting it in the fridge. That is how much love and patience Kapampangans put into preparing their food, no wonder they are known to be great cooks all over the country. This is not me boasting, just talking out of experience, I have been in so many places in the Philippines and more often than not, when people learned that I am from Pampanga, they would expect rather than assume that I know how to cook and that I am good at it! Talk about pressure eh! Good thing my Mama thought a thing or two;-)!

This can range from rolls with no filling, shrimp, minced beef, dried shrimp, char siu, or even you tiao (Chinese doughnuts)! They are a staple at any dim sum or yum cha spot, but in Canton and Hong Kong they are also often found in small street cafes and stalls. They make a delicious breakfast or ha cheung. This dish I’m teaching you today is one of my favorites, shrimp rice noodle rolls. The rice noodle sheet is wrapped around plump shrimp and doused in a signature sweet soy sauce. You can’t go wrong with this.