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Also known as couenne, pig skin, pork rind

skin of a pig

Key facts

Type
Cooking and baking staple
Main ingredients
Pig skin

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
appetizer
Subclass of
adipose tissue
Country
Brazil
Country of origin
China
Image
Pork prrr.jpg
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different from
Kamara
partially coincident with
cracklings
Commons category
Pork rind
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Encyclopedic overview

Pork rind is the culinary term for the fried skin of a pig. It can be used in many different ways.

It can be rendered, fried in fat, baked, or roasted to produce a kind of pork cracklings (US), crackling (UK), or scratchings (UK); these are served in small pieces as a snack or side dish and can also be used as an appetizer. The frying renders much of the fat, making it much smaller. They can also be used as a coating.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pork skin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.