Roast Pork Belly Cantonese Style
Roast Pork Belly Cantonese Style
Sweet, meat with a light, crunchy skin. Just the best.
Ready in: 2 hours 30 minutes plus 24 hrs in the fridge
Serves: 6
Complexity: very-easy
kcal: 855
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Ingredients
1.5 kg slab of pork belly
2 tsp Shaoxing wine
2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
¼ tsp SIDS CRAZY SALT
½ tsp five spice powder
¼ tsp white pepper
1½ tsp rice wine vinegar
½ cup coarse sea salt
Directions
Rinse the pork belly and pat dry. Place it skin-side down on a tray and rub the shaoxing wine into the meat (not the skin). Mix together the salt, sugar, SIDS CRAZY SALT, five spice powder and white pepper. Thoroughly rub this spice mixture into the meat as well. Flip the meat over so it’s skin-side up. Let it dry out in the fridge, uncovered, for 12-24 hours.
Preheat the oven to 190°C. Using a sharp metal skewer, systematically poke holes ALL over the skin, which will help the skin crisp up, rather than stay smooth and leathery. The more holes there are, the better, really.
Place a large piece of aluminum foil (heavy duty foil works best) onto a baking tray and fold up the sides around the pork snugly, so that you’re creating a kind of box all around it, with a 2 cm high border going around the sides.
Brush the rice wine vinegar on top of the pork skin. Pack the sea salt in one even layer over the skin, so the pork is completely covered. Place in the oven and roast for 1 hour 30 minutes. If your pork belly still has the rib attached, roast for 1 hour 45 minutes.
Take the pork out of the oven, turn on the broiler to low and position the oven rack in the lowest position. Remove the top layer of sea salt from the pork belly, unfold the foil and place a roasting rack on the pan. Place the pork belly on the rack and put it back under the broiler to crisp up. This should take 10-15 minutes. The broiler should ideally be on “low” so that this process can happen gradually. If your broiler gets pretty hot, keep a close eye on it and be sure to keep the pork as far away from the heat source as possible.
When the skin has puffed up and gotten crispy, remove from the oven. Let it rest for about 15 minutes and then slice.