Pork

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Christ's Ears

Oreilles de crisse

Deep-fried salted pork rinds served at sugar shacks as salty crunchy side to maple syrup-laden foods.

🇪🇨Latacunga, Ecuador

Chugchucaras

A Latacunga dish of fried pork, mote, potatoes, plantains, empanadas, and pork rinds with ají, a hearty and festive classic.

🇨🇴Cali, Colombia

Chuleta Valluna

Cali's favourite plate: a thin pork chop pounded flat, breaded and fried to a golden crust, served with rice, fries, patacón and a wedge of lime — Valle del Cauca's answer to the milanesa.

🇮🇹Abruzzo, Italy

Cif e ciaf

In Abruzzo, Cif e ciaf is pork pieces fried with garlic, rosemary, and chilli.

🇭🇺Hungary

Ciganypecsenye

Cigánypecsenye

“Gypsy roast” pork cutlets with bacon and paprika.

🇵🇪Piura, Peru

Copus

A Piura earth-oven pork preparation served with plantain and regional sides.

🇵🇭Philippines

Crispy Pork Belly

Lechon Kawali

Pork belly deep-fried until the skin is glass-shatter crisp, served with a liver sauce (Mang Tomas).

🇵🇭Philippines

Crispy Pork Knuckle

Crispy Pata

A pork knuckle (hock) boiled then deep-fried until the skin is crispy and the meat is tender.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Crispy Roast Pork Belly

烧肉

Pork belly salt-rubbed and air-dried, then roasted so the rind blisters into a layer of crackling above the striped fat and meat.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Cuerito relleno

A Puerto Rican stuffed pig's foot: deboned and stuffed with seasoned ground meat, then roasted or fried.

🇧🇪Mons, Belgium

Côte de porc à l'berdouille

This Mons pork chop is served with the region's sharp, dark l'berdouille sauce.

🇨🇳China

Dongpo Pork

东坡肉

A tied square of pork belly braised whole in Shaoxing wine, soy and sugar until it can be cut with a spoon, served one cube per person.

🇫🇷Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Enchaud

Enchaud is pork preserved by slow cooking and packing the meat in fat, then sliced cold or gently warmed.

🇬🇪Georgia

Family Pork and Potatoes

Ოჯახური

Pork and potato fried together in a clay pan with onion until both are browned at the edges, served in the pan it was cooked in.

🇵🇭Philippines

Filipino Meatloaf

Embutido

A Filipino-style meatloaf with ground pork, vegetables, raisins, eggs, and hot dogs, wrapped in foil and steamed.

🇨🇳Sichuan, China

Fish-Fragrant Pork Slivers

鱼香肉丝

Slivered pork stir-fried with wood ear, bamboo shoot and pickled chilli in a sauce of vinegar, sugar, garlic and ginger — the seasoning once used for fish, with no fish in it.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Flamenquín

In Andalusia, Flamenquín is pork loin rolled around ham, breaded, and fried crisp.

🇳🇴Norway

Flesk Og Duppe

Pork with drippings and small dumplings, a rustic home dish.

🇩🇰Denmark

Flæskesteg (Roast Pork)

Flæskesteg

A Danish roast pork with crispy crackling, a principal national dish and Christmas Eve tradition. Served with rødkål (red cabbage), brunede kartofler (caramelized potatoes), and gravy

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Franconian Pork Shoulder

Schäufele

Traditional Franconian pork shoulder roast, cured and roasted until crispy, served with potato salad or dumplings.

🇩🇪Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurter Rippchen

Frankfurter Rippchen are cured pork loin slices warmed and served with sauerkraut, mustard and sometimes mashed potato.

🇨🇴Cundinamarca, Colombia

Fritada

A Colombian dish of fried pork ribs, served with potatoes, plantain, arepa, and avocado. A hearty, rustic family meal of the highlands, especially Cundinamarca.

🇪🇨Sierra (Andean Highlands), Ecuador

Fritada

Ecuadorian pork chunks fried slowly in their own fat and served with mote, llapingachos, plantains and avocado in the highlands.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Fritanga

A Bolivian dish of fried pork with onions, tomatoes, ají, and spices, served with potatoes or rice, a hearty and spicy classic.

🇨🇴Medellín, Colombia

Frito Paisa

An Antioquian platter of fried pork, chorizo, chicharrón, plantain, arepa, and avocado. A hearty, rustic meal of the coffee region, served with beans.

🇵🇪Trujillo, Peru

Frito Trujillano

Trujillo's fried pork breakfast plate served with onions, potatoes and regional accompaniments.

🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

Galician Pork with Turnip Greens

Lacón con grelos

In Galicia, Lacón with grelos is Galician cured pork shoulder with turnip greens and potatoes.

🇰🇷South Korea

Galmaegisal

갈매기살

Galmaegisal is Korean pork skirt meat, a lean, springy diaphragm cut commonly grilled over charcoal at barbecue restaurants.

🇨🇳Sichuan, China

Garlic Pork Belly (Suanni Bairou)

蒜泥白肉

Suanni bairou is thin-sliced boiled pork belly dressed with crushed garlic, chilli oil, and soy in a cool Sichuan plate.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Geera Pork

Pork cubes seasoned and cooked down with an enormous quantity of roasted, ground cumin until dark and sticky.

🇵🇱Poland

Golonka

A Polish roasted pork knuckle, marinated with beer, garlic, and herbs, slow-roasted until crispy outside and tender inside. A beer-hall classic, served with sauerkraut and mustard.

🇬🇷Peloponnese, Greece

Gournopoula

Γουρνοπούλα

Roast suckling pig slow-cooked in a wood oven until the skin crackles, the centrepiece of Arcadian village feasts and Easter tables.

🇵🇱Poland

Gołąbki

Polish cabbage rolls: blanched cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice or buckwheat, simmered in tomato sauce. A home-cooked classic, hearty and savory.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Pigtail Souse

Pigtail Souse

Pickled pigtail souse of Grenada; pigtail boiled tender then marinated in lime juice with onions, cucumbers, and hot peppers; a tangy, savory dish; often served with bakes or provisions; a popular weekend and street food; the pigtail souse of the Spice Isle.

🇭🇹Haiti

Griot

Griyo

Pork shoulder marinated in sour orange, epis and scotch bonnet, braised until tender and then fried hard so the outside caramelises.

🇨🇳China

Guo Bao Rou

锅包肉

Guo bao rou, a northeastern dish of crispy pork slices in a sweet-sour sauce with garlic.