Recipes with salt pork

Slow cooker black-eyed peas with salt pork, garlic, and oregano. Overnight soak, then low and slow cooking for tender beans with Mexican flair.

Black bean soup built on a foundation of salt pork, ham hock, and aromatics, slow-simmered until the beans collapse, then pureed smooth and finished with sherry and wine vinegar. A Cuban-style classic that makes 16 generous servings.

A mixture of pork, ground beef, veal, chicken and salt pork that will have meat lovers asking for a second helping in no time!

Add sophistication to a home-cooked meal with this dish that can even have a famous French Restaurant saying "Oui, oui!".

Old-fashioned baked beans made from dried navy beans with salt pork, molasses, brown sugar, and pure maple syrup. Slow-baked for 5-7 hours until the sauce turns thick and the pork rind crisps up.

Authentic Tuscan bean soup with cannellini, savoy cabbage, fresh herbs, and a rich ham and salt pork soffritto. Ladled over toasted Italian bread with a drizzle of olive oil.

Traditional New England baked beans with white beans, salt pork, molasses, and brown sugar, baked low and slow for five hours. Authentic recipe from Methodist preacher Madam Russell.

Maine fish chowder simmers fresh haddock, potatoes, and onions in salt-pork-rendered fat and milk for a creamy, old-school New England chowder. No flour, no thickener, just pure fish flavor.

Golubtsi, traditional Russian cabbage rolls stuffed with millet, salt pork, carrots, and onion, simmered in a tangy sour cream and tomato sauce. Old-country comfort food with deep roots.

Slow cooker pinto beans with cubed beef chuck and salt pork simmer for 10 hours into tender, smoky cowboy-style beans perfect for feeding ranch hands.

Here is how Boston chef William Poirer makes red chowder, and it is good enough to convert the most diehard white chowder fanatic.

Turnips simmered in salt pork broth, half pureed and half cubed, thickened with a stream of cornmeal and finished with a touch of cream. A rustic, old-fashioned soup with deep, porky flavor.

Traditional Ukrainian golubtsi cabbage rolls filled with millet, salt pork, sauteed carrots and onions, simmered in a sour cream and tomato sauce. Authentic Eastern European comfort food.

Quick corn chowder with salt pork browns rendered pork, then simmers potatoes and corn in a milk-soaked-cracker thickened broth. Old New England comfort in 30 minutes.

New England clam chowder built the old way: littleneck clams steamed in their own broth, salt pork rendered for fat and cracklings, with potatoes, onions and a finish of cream. Smoky, briny, deeply Yankee.

My family, guests, and I were awed by this recipie's rich and flavorful taste! This was truly a hearty meal.