I accidentally bought a pork jowl

[Anonymous]

I was thinking “cheeks” and bought the jowl. It’s apparently as fatty as bacon. What the heck do I do with this? I was planning to slow cook the meat in a tomato stew.

Help!

[Anonymous]

Never heard of it, but sounds like you can still make something like what you planned with it.

https://thekitchencommunity.org/recipes-to-make-with-pork-jowl/

[Anonymous]

Pasta amatriaca! Google it. It’s really popular all over Rome!

[Anonymous]

Amatriciano

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pasta amatriaca! Google it. It’s really popular all over Rome!

That’s for cured jowl (Guanciale). This is just raw, uncurled jowl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking “cheeks” and bought the jowl. It’s apparently as fatty as bacon. What the heck do I do with this? I was planning to slow cook the meat in a tomato stew.

Help!

Treat it like pork belly. Anything you would do with that, use the jowl instead - smoke it or braise it, then add to whatever dish you're making that you would normally use bacon or pork belly.

[Anonymous]

Garbage. Gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Garbage. Gross

I bet you only eat boneless, skinless chicken breast.

[Anonymous]

I'd just make beans with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd just make beans with it.

+1. Use it for Anything that you’d add bacon to — beans, peas, greens, etc.