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Salted Meat [Video+Recipe] Carne Salada or Tocino
While salted meat (Dominican carne salada or tocino) is a dish and food preservation method that was very popular in the pre-refrigeration days, but created a cut of meat with its own characteristics, flavors, and virtues.
![Salted Meat [Video+Recipe] Carne Salada or Tocino](https://www.dominicancooking.com/wp-content/uploads/recipe-tocino-de-chivo-cecina-dried-meat-homemade-P1150333-2.jpg)
- Prep time
- 50 min
- Cook time
- 4 hr 25 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2½ pound meat (pork, beef or goat [1.13 kg])
- ½ cup coarse sea salt
- 3 tablespoons oregano ((dry leaves), crushed)
- 1 tablespoon pepper ((freshly-cracked, or ground))
- 2 tablespoons mashed garlic ((optional))
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large red onion (sliced)
- 4 large tomato (chopped)
- 4 cloves garlic (crushed)
- ½ teaspoon oregano ((dry, ground))
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon cilantro (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon salt ((or more, to taste))
- 1½ cups liquid from boiling meat
Instructions
- 1
1. To season the meat
- 2
2. Dry the meat
- 3
3. Storing
- 4
4. To de-salt meat
- 5
5. Shred meat
- 6
6. Sautee
- 7
7. Make sauce