Pork Tapa Recipe

Pork Tapa is another variety of "tapa", refers to cured meat slices, the meat can be beef, pork or even chicken.  Tapa is usually served during breakfast with fried rice and egg together with "achara" (picked papaya strips) or spicy vinegar.

Homemade Pork Tocino Recipe

Tocino is typical meat sliced into thin strips cured in anise wine, annatto, water, salts sugar and saltpeter mixture, stacked in a separate container,and covered and kept refrigerated for about three days to cure.  But the original tocino is marinated only with salt, sugar, and saltpeter.

In Spanish, Tocino is bacon, made from the pork belly, and some other countries in Caribbean, is made from pork fatback and neither cured nor smoked and fried until very crunchy.