Slow-Cooked Pork Belly

5 ingredients
4 steps

Ingredients

  • 8 bay leaves
  • 2 thumb-sized pieces gingerroot
  • 15 garlic cloves
  • 150 ml olive oil
  • 3 kg pork belly, ask your butcher to score it for you (complete with skin and bones)

Directions

  1. 1
    Combine all the ingredients (apart from the pork) in either a food processor or a pestle and mortar, then rub them well into the skin of the pork belly . Leave it somewhere cool to marinate for as long as you can bear (between 1 hour and 2 days).
  2. 2
    Preheat your oven to 110C/fan 90C/gas 1/4 or as low as it will go. Roast the pork for 3 hours. Check to make sure it's not pink. If it is, give it a bit longer.
  3. 3
    Lastly, for your Maillard reaction, whack the oven up to 240C/fan 220C/gas 9 or as high as it will go and roast for 10-15 minutes or until crisp.
  4. 4
    Let the belly rest but not for more than 10 minutes and serve.

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