Vietnamese cuisine: spicy fried bacon with bread and cucumber, the recipe.
Today's is not really a recipe but a quick dish that sometimes, when I have just bought fresh bacon from the butcher, I like to prepare as a snack.

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Ingredients

– 200 grams of guanciale bought at my trusted butcher (remember: tell the seller to leave the pig skin);
– Chili pepper, onion, garlic (finely chopped);
– EVO olive oil
– Spices: fish sauce (which I always buy in a Chinese shop in Genoa), sugar, monosodium glutamate, paprika, white wine, pepper.
– If you like spicy foods, you can add satay (which I told you about here) or chili sauce.

Preparation

Fry the onion and chopped garlic in a little oil, set aside.
Rinse the bacon under running water and, once drained well, cut it into cubes of about three centimeters; put the cubes to boil in hot water for a few minutes.

Separately, in a pan, put some olive oil and a spoonful of sugar; put on a hot flame and stir quickly and evenly to give color to the dish. When the sugar takes on the color of browns (we say like cockroach wings) and has dissolved evenly, add the previously boiled bacon.
Stir a few more times and then add two tablespoons of fish sauce, two tablespoons of white wine, half a teaspoon of seasoning, half a teaspoon of monosodium glutamate and four tablespoons of water.
When you see that the water starts to boil, lower the heat, and continue cooking for another ten minutes.
Taste and, if necessary, add salt and pepper to taste.

I enjoy this snack with some lightly warmed toast and sliced ​​cucumber.

This is the result:

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