Lamb Bacon Cure
Ingredients
3 lbs salt, kosher
12 oz brown sugar
12 oz sugar
6 oz pink salt
2 oz peppercorns
0.5 oz bay leaves
0.5 oz sage, dried
1 oz thyme, dried
1.5 oz mustard seed
0.5 oz juniper berries
0.5 oz coriander seed
Method
Toast all the spice and grind in the vita prep.
Mix all remaining ingredients.
Place the lamb belly in a hotel pan and coat evenly over all the meat with the dry cure.
Rotate the meat every day for 3 days and recoat with the dry cure daily.
Remove the pork belly and wash off the cure. Let dry in the cooler for 12 hours.
Smoke for 3 hours or until the internal temperature reaches 150 degrees.
Cool and then slice the bacon. Cook as needed.