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Ingredient

Pork skin

Also called couenne, pig skin and pork rind

Pork skin is firm when raw and can be crisp or soft when cooked. Cooks boil, simmer, cure, deep-fry, pickle, roast, or season it, and pair it with vinegar, peas, hot sauce, or lime juice.

Part used
Skin
Texture
Firm, crisp, soft
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Ukraine
Pork skin, cut

Photo: Pufui PcPifpef · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use pork skin

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Cure
  • Deep fry
  • Pickle
  • Roast
  • Season

Preparing it

Burn off the hair before cutting and cooking the skin. For one Thai preparation, salt-cure the skin with its fat attached, then soak it in water. Another method is to cut the skin into strips, boil it and dry it thoroughly before frying.

Cooking with it

Frying renders out much of the fat and shrinks the rind. For a crispier, less fatty result, render the rind over low heat before cooking it at a higher temperature.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, raw

  • Firm

Texture, cooked

  • Crisp
  • Soft

Nutrition

What 100 g of pork skin holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 66%Fat 34%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of pork skin
Energy544 kcal · 2,276 kJ
Protein61 g
Fat31 g
of which saturated11 g
Carbohydrate0 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium1,818 mg
Cholesterol95 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of pork skin: minerals and vitamins
Potassium127 mg
Calcium30 mg
Iron0.88 mg
Magnesium11 mg
Zinc0.56 mg
Vitamin C0.5 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)12 µg
Vitamin B120.64 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 167961), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with pork skin

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Kulesha

    Ukraine

  • Leskovačka kavurma

    Serbia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pork skin.

Around the world

What pork skin is called

Names in 57 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    piel de cerdo · Spirgai · Ciccioli · Cortezas de cerdo

  • French

    couenne

  • Italian

    cotenna · cotiche · cotica · cotenne

  • Portuguese

    pele de porco · Couenne · Pururuca · pururuca

  • German

    Schwarte · Couenne · Schweineschwarte

  • Dutch

    zwoerd · Couenne

  • Turkish

    Domuz derisi

  • Russian

    свиная шкурка · свиная шкура

  • Polish

    skwarki · Couenne

  • Arabic

    قشرة لحم الخنزير · جلد الخنزير

  • Hebrew

    גלדי שומן חזיר · עור חזיר

  • Hindi

    पोर्क का छिलका

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  • Albanian

    lëkurë derri

  • Azerbaijani

    Kotekino

  • Balinese

    Krupuk Be Celeng

  • Bangla

    শূকরচর্ম

  • Basque

    gantxigor · txintxorta · Couenne

  • Bavarian

    schwoatn · Schwoat

  • Belarusian

    скварка

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    сьвіная шкурка · скварка · шкварка

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    pele de porco · Pururuca

  • Bulgarian

    Пръжки

  • Cantonese

    豬皮

  • Catalan

    llardó · llardons

  • Chinese

    豬皮 · 皮肚 · 猪肉皮

  • Chuvash

    Шкварка

  • Corsican

    coghja

  • Croatian

    Čvarci · Čvarak · Couenne

  • Danish

    flæskesvær

  • eml

    Códga

  • Esperanto

    fritita porkhaŭtaĵo · porka lardhaŭtaĵo

  • Estonian

    seakamar · Couenne

  • Finnish

    kamara · Couenne

  • Galician

    pel de porco

  • Hungarian

    sertéstepertő · tepertő · pörcögő · töpörtyű

  • Indonesian

    Kulit babi

  • Japanese

    ポーク・スクラッチング · チチャロン

  • Javanese

    Kulit babi

  • Korean

    돼지 껍데기 · 돼지 껍질 · 돼지껍데기 · 돼지껍질

  • Latin

    Tergilla

  • Limburgish

    Zjwaasj · Zwaors · Zjwaarsj · Couenne

  • Lithuanian

    Spirgai · Spirgučiai

  • Macedonian

    Џимиринки

  • Malay

    Kulit babi

  • Malayalam

    പന്നിയിറച്ചി

  • Manchu

    ᡠᠯᡤᡳᠶᠠᠴᡳ

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    fleskesvor · Couenne

  • Odia

    ପୋର୍କ ଚମଡା

  • Punjabi

    ਪੋਰਕ ਦਾ ਛਿਲਕਾ

  • Romanian

    jumară · jumere · jumări · șorici

  • Samogitian

    Kresnas

  • Serbian

    Чварци

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    Чварци

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Čvarci · Couenne

  • Shan

    ၼင်မူ

  • Simplified Chinese

    猪皮

  • Slovak

    škvarky · oškvarky · škvarka · oškvarok

  • Slovenian

    svinjska koža · Couenne · ocvirki · slanina

  • Swedish

    svål · Couenne

  • Thai

    แคบหมู · หนังพอง · แคปหมู

  • Traditional Chinese

    豬皮

  • Ukrainian

    Шкварки

  • Vietnamese

    tóp mỡ

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q3695900

Photos

Photo: Pufui PcPifpef · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons