f you’re a fan of salted pigtails to reinforce your stews and soups as is widespread within the Caribbean, might I counsel you give smoked salted pigtails an opportunity. As I did in making the Breadfruit Simmered In Coconut Milk, having smoked pigtail items provides a singular dept of taste.
You’ll Want…
4 lbs salted pigtail
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
8 allspice berries
2 bay leaves
Notes! Could I like to recommend that you simply comply with together with the video beneath as rather more in regards to the recipe is mentioned there. Together with makes use of for this smoked pigtails. If making this dish gluten free, please undergo the complete listing of substances to make sure they meet your particular gluten free dietary necessities.
Place the salted pigtail items in a deep pot lined with water on a medium/excessive flame and add the opposite substances.
Convey to a boil, then scale back to a simmer and cook dinner for one hour.
Drain and put aside. This won’t solely assist tenderize them, it would take away a lot of the salt it was cured in.
I used my Traeger pellet smoker with applewood pellets. Chances are you’ll use an offset smoker, propane or charcoal bbq if you want. For the propane and charcoal bbq you’ll must grill not directly and make use of using smoke pouches (primarily wooden chips wrapped with foil, with tiny holes so when the wooden chips burn, the smoke will escape and taste the pigtail items)
My Traeger smoker was set to 180 F throughout the cook dinner.
4 hours later and I pulled them off the smoker, however you possibly can go a pair hours extra do you have to desire a extra pronounced taste.
Must you need to have these go for an additional couple hours, then slap some BBQ sauce on them, you might simply take pleasure in them as a dish after (minimize into small items) as defined within the video.
In my case, after they have been cool I positioned a pair items into particular person vacuum baggage and saved them within the freezer to be used in later recipes. Your stews, soups and even braised cabbage with items of this applewood smoked pigtail, will probably be merely unbelievable.
Supply: caribbeanpot.com
