Home Cured Pork Belly for Amazing Bacon - Kitchen Wrangler | Melissa Guerra

Ingredients

• For every 5lbs pork belly, you will need the following:
• ¼ cup coarse kosher salt
• 2 tsp. Insta-Cure or Prague Powder*
• 4 tbsp. coarsely ground black pepper
• 4 bay leaves, crumbled
• 1 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/4 cup brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup
• 5 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 2 tbsp. juniper berries, lightly crushed
• 10 sprigs fresh thyme