Tocino is a popular Filipino dish. It is pork that has been cured in sugar, pineapple juice, Gin, garlic, and pink powder. The use of pink powder imparts that distinctive taste to cured meats. However, some people would like to avoid eating foods that has been preserved by addition of pink salt so some households cook this dish fresh. Meaning, they cook using all the ingredients I have mentioned but without curing the meat and without the pink salt. It tastes somewhat different from the cured product but nevertheless interesting and nice too. So can you also do this recipe for chicken. I have cooked this simple recipe without the customary ingredients used for tocino and I think the outcome is nice too.
Ingredients:
1 ½ kg Chicken (cut into serving pieces)
1 pc. Onion (medium, cut thinly)
2 tbsp. Garlic (minced)
¼ tsp. Black pepper (powder)
1/3 cup Sugar
¼ tsp. Iodized salt
½ cup Water
Cooking Instructions:
In a suitable saucepan, place all of the ingredients and heat to boil. Once it boils lower the flame to maintain a steady simmering boil. Simmer with occasional stirring uncovered until the sauce is reduced to dryness. Continue heating and stirring until the sugar starts to caramelize and coats the chicken. Serve with either steamed or garlic rice.
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