Sweet-Sour px Pork

Name: Sweet-Sour px Pork
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: ½ medium onion, peeled; 50 ml sherry vinegar; 120 ml Pedro Ximénez sherry; 3 bay leaves, preferably fresh; 2 teaspoons fine sea salt; 1 kg piece of organic or free-range pork belly, skin scored; 1½ teaspoons finely chopped rosemary; 3 garlic cloves, crushed to a paste with 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Morito

By Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

Published 2014

About

The initial slow-roasting of the pork can be done a day or two in advance. PX stands for Pedro Ximénez, the sweet, raisiny sherry from Jerez.

Ingredients

3 garlic cloves, crushed to a paste with 1 teaspoon salt
1½ teaspoons finely chopped rosemary
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Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 230°C/450°F/Gas 8. Mix the garlic with the rosemary and smear it over the flesh side of the pork belly. Turn the meat over and dry the skin thoroughly – a hair dryer works well. Generously sprinkle the skin with the salt. Leave for 20 minutes, then dust off the exce