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• What you need

Mix the meat marinade. You will mix the ingredients salt, vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce, garlic, onion powder and food coloring evenly. If you like, you can use beets powder instead of food coloring. Mix the ingredients in a bowl to make the meat easier to marinate.

• For a more sour taste, you can add ½ cup of pineapple juice to the mix.

Stir the meat in a bowl of marinade. Stir the meat so that the seasoning mixture covers and evenly all the cuts. Press the meat down to completely submerge the marinade.

Keep the chilled meat in the refrigerator for 3 days. Store meat in zippered plastic bags or sealed plastic containers and keep in the refrigerator for 3 days. This step is to let the meat soak in before baking or frying. When taking the meat out of the refrigerator, don't be disappointed if it doesn't have the color you expected. The meat will probably be a slightly grayish color, but it should be nice when ripe. advertisement

Part 2 of 2: Frying or barbecue

1. 

   Fry the meat on a pan. Here's how to fry the marinated meat:
   • Place the marinated meat in a frying pan with a little oil.
   • Heat oil over medium heat and fry each piece for 2-3 minutes on each side. Just do it like bacon: just fry the meat until it's a nice golden brown.
2. Take each cooked piece of meat onto the plate and continue to fry the other meat.
   • You can also place the meat on a tissue if you want to absorb the oil.
   • For a more Caribbean flavor, cut the meat into small squares and fry it until it's crispy, served with steamed rice as a traditional dish. arroz blanco con tocino, which means "white rice with tocino meat."

3. 

   
   
   Cooking meat. You can also grill the meat instead of frying. Here's how you can have the perfect grilled tocino:
   • Heat the grill and place each piece of meat on grill for 2-3 minutes on each side, similar to frying in a pan.
   • Once each piece of meat is crispy and crispy, remove it from the grill and you're done.
   • Let the meat "rest" for about 5 minutes before serving.

4. 

   Serve food. There are many ways to serve this delicious dish. Although tocino can be eaten separately, you can also serve it as a so-called traditional dish Tosilog in Filipino, including tocino meat, garlic rice and omelet. advertisement

What you need

• Frying pan
• Filtering device
• Seal mixing bowl or any other suitable for holding marinated meat.