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Mangalitsa Belly - Uncured and Unsmoked

Mangalitsa Belly - Uncured and Unsmoked

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Pasture-Raised Mangalitsa · Belly
Uncured, unsmoked, and about half fat.
This is a plain pork belly with nothing done to it. No cure, no smoke, no salt. On a Mangalitsa the fat layer is thicker and softer than on any commodity hog, which is exactly why people come looking for this cut.
3
Pounds, average
Uncured
No smoke, no salt
325°F
Then crisp it hot
What makes it different
Uncured means uncured.
Nothing has been added. This is not bacon, and it will not taste like bacon until you make it into bacon.
Mangalitsa fat
is higher in oleic acid than commodity pork fat, so it renders softer and at a lower temperature.
That gives you three jobs to pick from:
roast it for crackling, braise it and press it, or render it down into the best lard in your kitchen.
This is the cut the breed was bred for. Mangalitsas are lard hogs. On this animal the belly is not a by-product — it is the point.
From the farm
We sell the belly plain because half the people who buy it want to cure their own bacon and the other half want to render it. Curing it first would only take an option away.
How to cook it
01
Score the skin or fat cap. Shallow diamond cuts, through the fat and not into the meat.
02
Salt it and dry it. Overnight in the fridge, uncovered, fat side up. Dry surface is what crisps.
03
Slow first. 325°F for two to two and a half hours, until the meat underneath is tender.
04
Then hot. 450°F for fifteen to twenty minutes to blister the top. Watch it — it goes from crisp to burnt quickly.
05
Rest, then cut into squares. At this fat level a little goes a long way.
What you're getting
One slab — about 3 lb
Uncured and unsmoked — no cure, no smoke, no added salt
Pasture-raised Mangalitsa — no antibiotics, no added hormones
Raised in Monticello, Kentucky — USDA inspected. We raise it, cut it and pack it ourselves.
Who vouches for us
Homegrown By Heroes
Homegrown By Heroes
Farmer veteran certified
Weston A. Price Foundation
Weston A. Price
Wise Traditions listed
Kentucky Proud
Kentucky Proud
KY Dept. of Agriculture
Appalachia Proud
Appalachia Proud
Mountains to Market
USDA inspected · Processed at USDA-inspected facilities in Science Hill, Kentucky and Walling, Tennessee

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