Basic salt and pepper streaky bacon recipe

The most basic streaky bacon you can make - Simple to cure, easy to slice and freeze for later use, and of course best paired with two slices of bread and a hangover.

• 545 g pork belly
• 22 g salt
• 5 g black pepper, ground
• 1.3 g Cure No 1

• Mix all the cure ingredients together and put in a zip lock freezer bag
• Add the pork belly to the bag and make sure it is covered in the cure all over
• Leave this in the fridge for 7 days, turning it over every day (this is important)
• After 7 days take the belly out of the bag and rinse it and pat dry
• Leave the belly in the fridge on a plate overnight
• Hang at 75RH at 6c for a week and then slice
• Slices can be cooked or vac sealed and frozen for later use!