Cured meat · fried

Chicharrón

Also called chicharrones, pork rinds, pork crackling, pork scratchings

Pork skin fried or puffed until crisp and airy; salty and rich. Eaten as a snack, crumbled over dishes or simmered in salsa verde.

Gluten-freeDairy-free

What can replace it

  • T3 · In a pinchChinese roast pork belly

    Mostly meat under a crackling layer; use the crackling.

  • T3 · In a pinchPork skin

    Raw; must be boiled, dried and deep-fried to puff.

  • T3 · In a pinchStreaky bacon

    Fried crisp it gives salty pork crunch, but it is meatier and denser.

Cook with Chicharrón

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