Korean’s Mouth Water Just Looking Pork Belly and How to Make More Delicious ?

Pork Belly (Bacon) has been certainly Korean’s typical folky menu in general whenever father’s salary day or company dinner or meeting with old friends. The Pork Belly was a common menu to folky people as a good and low cost protein supplying resources. But price of one portion is about KRW 10,000- which looks no longer folky menu and sometime calls as gold pork belly. Despite this higher price, pork belly has been still one of typical menu to folky people as a good and easy menu whenever they get together with family or friends for talking about tough and stressed living at tight society system. It is the best solution to arrange pork belly for such intimate talking or communication. If someone at the member know how to cook pork belly, they will grill the Port Belly on chat coal or cooking pan appropriately which color turns to light  yellow, optimum level. When you slaughter 100kg pig, you could take 50kg meat which containing 20 kg pork belly. Korean are inclined to eat this pork belly which they have imported pork belly 120.000 ton in 2016.  

1.   How to Choose the Best Pork Belly

It is the best way and important that you should consider selecting best pork taking into account Pork Quality Grade like 1+, 1, 2, others. This classification shall be made referring to pork status, color and spreading ratio. Color of pork shall be transparent and layer of fat obviously appeared with white color. If color of pork is dark red or color of fat is yellow brown pork or weak elasticity of pork when pressed, this pork should be lasted long after slaughter or over stressed pig. Too much fat is not good pork in general but too less fat also not good for best pork because pork meat is tough and crumbling.

People nowadays tended to avoid fat at the pork taking into account heathy food. Human should take fatty pork one to twice a week because unsaturated fatty acid at pork shall protect organ in human body as well as preventing from cholesterol deposit at blood circuit. It is additionally to supply fat soluble acid for boosting healthy skin color.   

2, More Deliciously Enjoy Pork Belly

 

 There are several ways which we could cook the best pork belly. Followings are topic and important which you should take care for so delicious pork belly menu.

2-1) it is the best way you cook the pork belly on grill with chat coal fire. Flavor of chat coal is properly sunk to pork belly during the cooking process. If you do not have such chat coal grill, you would use proper cooking pan with gas range or electric range which is made with stone or heavy iron.

2-2) when you cook the pork belly, you should take care pork belly for optimum cooking level, not too well-done and not too rare. Color of the pork should be light yellow without any black burning residue. It is the key to cook to maintain juicy liquid of pork during the cooking works.

2-3) you should consider adding suitable side menu on the cooking pan for upgrading the pork belly like well ripened Kimchi or mushroom or bean sprouts or others depend on individual hobby when you cook.

2-4) you should prepare side dishes for upgrading the pork after cooking like ingredient chives with garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, soybean paste, red chili paste and so on which you could add some more or less depend on each personal hobby. Please look the photo.

2-5) Vegetables should be prepared for folding the pork and ingredients like lattice, onion, green onion, chines cabbage and so on which you could add or less depend on your hobby. As you know, garlic would be useful for transferring pork nutrition to human body thanks for     allicin and chives help for fat disposition.    .   

2-6) if you properly add mineral salt, black pepper and herb on the pork before the cooking, this will help more delicious taste as well as some role for removing pig smell.