• Fusion Fare: Pork Belly With Cashews And Spinach

    Chef Cyrus Todiwala is a master of Indian fusion cuisine. Using only 10 choice spices from India's vast bounty of spices, he's created a vibrant new recipe collection for home cooks featuring classic and modern spins on favorite South Asian dishes. At one time belly of pork was considered “cheap and cheerful,” but of late it has become…

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  • Korean Tonight: How To Make Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps

    Cooking Channel host Judy Joo's new cookbook, named for her popular show, is a fresh, spicy collection of Korean recipes you can 100 percent make at home. Craving bulgogi? Can't shake your kimchi craving? Hit the Asian market and get cooking!Sharing is a common theme underlying all Korean food. Bo ssam embodies this convivial sentiment — everyone…

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  • How To Chop A Jalapeño (Plus 8 Hot Recipes)

    Pick a pound of piquant jalapeños and bring them home, because we're about to school you on how to not burn yourself (or others). Crisp and healthy with just the right amount of fire, jalapeños are a great way to give dinner a little kick in the pants.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_V2k-XLBa4[/embed]

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  • How To Make Stupidly Simple Sous-Vide Pork Belly

    We’ve already established that pork belly is one of our favorite cuts to cook with at home. We showed you the easiest way to work with it in the form of a traditional braise and delved into the quickest way to get it done by using a pressure cooker. This week, we called on our friends…

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  • The Quickest Way To Cook Pork Belly At Home

    Just last week, our friends at ChefSteps wrote in with an easy technique for a bone-sticking braise that’s perfect for pork-belly preparation. The only problem? It requires time — lots of it. So what to do with that tender chunk of fatty pork belly lying around when time isn’t exactly on your side? Break out the…

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  • How To Make Super-Simple, Tender Braised Pork Belly At Home

    There are few pieces of meat that provoke as much excitement as a tender chunk of pork belly. A popular cut in Japanese cuisine, pork belly combines copious amounts of taste with just the right amount of pure fattiness. Pork belly has become an increasingly common menu item at restaurants serving various cuisines from around the…

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  • Fried Pork Belly Tacos With Pipián Sauce

    Chef, culinary instructor, cooking show host and James Beard Award–winning cookbook author Joanne Weir has a new collection of recipes out, Kitchen Gypsy, and you’re going to want it. Weir, a veteran of the famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, specializes in simple, hearty food, focusing on the quality and availability of local ingredients in order to…

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  • Belly Up: Home-Cured Sorghum Bacon

    There are thousands of Southern-food cookbooks, but only one Garden & Gun magazine bent on compiling the best of the best of old and new recipes for its dedicated readership. Whether it’s the classics or the updated hits that drive the modern Southern culinary movement, you’re in for some seriously delicious hospitality. Now, bring home that bacon. And…

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  • Boiled Pork Belly With Spicy Garlic Dressing

    Chef, food writer and culinary instructor Kian Lam Kho can and will teach you how to make delicious, authentic Chinese food that will have you tossing out your takeout menus. If you can’t make it to one of his cooking classes, pick up a copy of his new book, Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees. Kho’s…

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  • Crispy Pork Belly With Pluot Chimichurri

    As we settle into autumn, the way we cook and eat shifts along with the weather. As the abundance of beautiful summer produce wanes and the weather cools, we make more room on our plates for meats and reintroduce cuts that we all but forgot during the summer months.Pork belly requires a long roasting time,…

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  • Charles Phan's Vietnamese Meatball Recipe

    Charles Phan, chef-owner of San Francisco’s pioneering the Slanted Door, was boiling up bowls of Vietnamese noodle soup long before most Americans had ever heard of pho — or knew how to pronounce it properly. That is to say, way before it was cool. In his second cookbook, a tribute to the chef's modern restaurant in the Ferry…

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  • 15 Brunch Recipes For That Winter Bacon Craving

    Sure, you could fry up bacon and eggs like you do all the time. But what will you have learned by the time you're done, other than bacon and eggs are, as you suspected, delicious and satisfying? We've gathered 15 exciting ways to have your pig candy and eat it too. Ever kneaded bacon fat…

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  • 14 Pork Recipes Off The Beaten Path

    So you're staring down a tenderloin or a chop thinking don't just pan-sear it and put it in the oven, don't just pan-sear it and put it in the oven. It's a good thing you came to Food Republic. Here are 14 things to do with that shoulder, T-bone or "pound of ground" we bet…

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  • Osaka-Style Okonomiyaki Recipe

    The okonomiyaki of Osaka is the style that defines this dish. Here, ingredients are simply mixed together with batter and griddled. Cabbage is the mainstay, and there’s usually pork. We use fresh pork belly, but ground pork is common, too (more old-fashioned, but delicious). In Osaka, you can also find okonomiyaki cooked with octopus, squid,…

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  • 20 Reasons To Pick Up The Knife And Pork

    At Food Republic, we’re in praise of pork as the protein for the summer. Why? Diversity. You all know about barbecue baby back ribs. And pork belly. It’s the old kale and the original Cronut. (But we aren’t sick of it. In fact, we made it this past weekend.) But pork has got range. You…

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  • Spiced Pork Belly With Fennel And Tomato Salad Recipe

    There's nothing like a great new spin on pork belly. Maria Elia's Full of Flavor contains a particularly good one — a healthy fennel and tomato salad with a hefty portion of succulent, fatty pork belly on top. Ready for today's helping of crispy skin? Anise has a natural affinity for pork. Fennel and fennel…

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