I just like to eat them as a snack. I like the ones with meat on them, but sometimes I’ll get the ones without meat (like the pork rinds that come in a bag in the chips section of the supermarket). Once in a while I’ll zap them in the microwave oven, but I never use them in a recipe.
So how do you eat them?
When im trying to do an Atkins type diet, I eat them like a chip. Ive seen them cooked with chiles like a chile verde style soup. One of my favorite sandwiches that dear old mom makes has them inside kind of like how one would put potato chips in their sandwich to cut out an extra step, hahaha
The best burritos I’ve had were chicharróne burritos. Bought from the burrito lady carrying a cooler at a warehouse I once worked at. Every bite had a fifty-fifty chance of causing a heart attack. Worth the risk.
I’ll scoop cottage cheese up with them for the low carb thing.
I’ll eat them plain with a shot of Tapatio/Cholula, or use them to scoop up leftover taco meat as a “light” lunch the day after Taco Night.
You just blew my fucking mind.
The only time I’ve eaten them as a snack was the chips in a bag, I put cream cheese on them.
Nowadays, if I have a dish with fried pork skin in it, it’s usually something Vietnamese from the Banh Mi place next door to work.
I get a pernil at Western Beef, tell them to skin it, slow smoke the meat and make my own sooooooo delicious home made cueritos. The only problem with this is that the skin of one pernil only makes but so much and my household of 4 will bludgeon each other trying to get to it. Or, the easy way, is to cook the pernil with the skin on and break up the cuero into hard crunchy yummy-ness.
Ah, the joys of growing up Puerto Rican.