Cooking - Roasted Pork Belly

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Went out for Groceries Shopping to fill up the fridge during one of those long holidays weekends. Stock is available so gotten load of meat for storing.


Roasted Pork Belly

Prep Time: 15 minutes + (leave overnight in fridge)    |     Cooking Time: est. 120 minutes

Ingredients:
1 block of Pork Belly enough to fit the oven size. I used about 12" x 6 " block for my small oven.


Seasonings:
3 tbsp Chinese Five Spice Powder
1 tbsp Chinese Tsao Tsing Cooking Wine
1 tbsp Honey
1 tsp Pepper
Coarse Salt- lots of them


Directions:
  1. Prepare the pork according to the size needed. Rinse and dry.
  2. Use a fork / meat tenderizer to poke the skin. Poke just enough to penetrate the skin and not further than that. 
  3. Slightly make intersection slices on the meat side using a knife.
  4. Mix the seasoning Chinese Five Spice Powder, Chinese Tsao Tsing Cooking Wine, Honey, and Pepper until fully incorporated. Apply this mixture on the meat side until this side of the meat is coated. Make sure it doesn't get onto the skin side. Put this side inside the container so that it seeps in during overnight marinating.
  5. With the Skin side up. Coat the top only with the salt about 3 to 5 mm thick then keep it in the fridge to let it continue marinate overnight.
  6. Next day when ready to bake, heat up the oven at 200℃ / 400℉ upper heat only and bring out 30 minutes at least prior to baking and scrape off the salt completely from the skin. 
  7. Place the meat skin side up on the oven grill rack. make sure the tray is below it to contain the dripping oil/fat from the pork. Grill the pork belly until it browns and decrease the heat to 150℃ / 300℉ leave it to slowly grill to drip the excess oil. When the skin is of a darker brown. turn off the heat and keep it in the oven to let the oil continue to drip and cool. This would take about 2 hours or more depending on the size of the block used.
  8. When it is cooled bring out from the oven and with meat side up, chop the pork belly into required bit sizes. This is to prevent the crispy side of the skin to come apart from the meat.
  9. You can serve to any sauces to your liking or eat as a side with rice and etc.


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