Chicharron tacos recipe: 59 photos

Salsa Verde Chicharrón Tacos

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Chicharron tacos are Mexican pork rind tacos. Chicharron meat is the skin and fat cap of pork belly. To make chicharron tacos, cooks deep-fry the pork skin and fat into a crispy pork rind and balance the deep, crispy flavor of the fried pork belly fat with fresh, acidic toppings.
Is chicharrón the same thing as chicharrones? The technical Spanish professor's answer is that chicharrón is the singular form of chicharrones, much like pork rind is to pork rinds.
chicharron, a dish usually featuring deep-fried pork rind (skin) or pork belly or both, popular in Spain and Central and South America. Recipes for chicharron vary greatly. Most use pork; others use mutton, beef, or chicken. Pork belly and rib cuts are common.
Bring water to a boil in a large cooking pot. Add in the black pepper peppercorns, bay leaves, garlic, onion and salt. Place strips of pork belly in the pot, cover and boil for 1 hour.
It is a known fact that chicharon is deemed unhealthy due to its high fat content. But the kind of fat that's in chicharon is mostly mono-unsaturated, the same healthy kind of fat found in olive oil, avocados, and macadamia nuts. Some kinds of chicharon have as high as 40 percent of this “heart-healthy” fat.
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