On sale this week at my local Real Canadian Superstore is Siwin brand made-in-Canada Sweet Tocino, a Filipino style heavily marinated pork product.
It's quite hard to tell from the package because of all the red marinade, but the pork is quite fatty. Depending on how you feel about your meat, this can be good or bad. Because I was going to char it, and I don't mind tasty fat, I was definitely okay with it.
The preparation is extremely simple as the product is already quite a thin slab. I chose to use a non-stick frying pan with a bit of oil:
- Drizzle a little bit of oil in the non-stick frying pan.
- Unpack the Tocino into the frying pan, leaving it as a single thin layer.
- Turn the heat to high and cover the pan.
- Let it sear for literally just a couple of minutes and check for desired amount of char.
- Turn the tocino over to char the other side.
And just like that, you are done.
Because you covered the frying pan, the steam will swirl about in there and leave you a light sauce / pan drippings. Don't waste it! Swirl in rice or noodles to gather it up.
With a nice char from the frying pan, the flavour came out fairly close to char siu pork, but even more moist and tender and with a useful amount of sauce in the pan.
If you want a fast, simple pork meal and don't mind some fatty cuts, definitely give this a try while it's on sale.
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