Crispy Roast Pork Belly
My ideal roast pork has to have that layer of crispy crunchy crackling on top and the meat below has to be juicy, warm and tender. I could not find this anywhere.
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How old were you when you started cooking? 9-10 year-old
Personal wish related to cooking:
To open my own restaurant and that my recipes will be enjoyed and passed down to my children and their children.
Alvin See , Banker by day, Chef and Sommelier by night
Ingredients
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1.5 – 2 kg Pork Belly
Salt and ground black peppercorn
2 onions, sliced
2 carrots, peeled, halved length way and cut into finger long
2 sticks of celery, cut into finger long
1 bulb of garlic, broken into cloves and peeled
Methods
- Clean and remove excess hair form the belly. Using a shape knife (utility/pen knife works wonder), make scores about centimeter apart through the skin into the fat in a criss-cross pattern, throughout the whole skin surface. Do not cut into the meat.
- This is optional but if you are really into roast belly, I suggest that you get one of these traditional nail-bed tools to make multiple holes evenly on the skin (in addition to the score).
- Rub salt right into the scores. Brush off any excess salt from the skin and flip the meat over. Season evenly the underside of the belly with salt and black pepper.
- Leave the piece of marinated meat in the open, preferably some where windy. My trick is to place a blowing fan directly in front of the belly for hours. Scoring and drying the skin will reward you with the crispy crackling of a good belly roast.
- Preheat the oven at 220 °C.
- Place the pork belly, skin side-up, in a roasting tray (big enough to hold the belly and all the vegetable) and place in the hot oven for half an hour until the skin of the pork starts to puff up, turning into crackling.
- Lower the temperature to 180 °C and roast for another hour.
- Remove the belly from the oven. Carefully lift the belly up and transfer to a chopping board. Pour the oil from the belly into a container.
- Add all the vegetable to the tray. Place the pork belly on top of the vegetable and return the tray to the oven and roast at the same temperature for another hour. By this time, the meat should be meltingly soft and tender and the skin crispy.
- Serve immediately.
Tips
You can slice the meat and serve as main or chop into bite-size. The belly goes very well with rockets and buttercup lettuce with mustard or balsamic reduction.
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