Membrillo- and Pepper-Glazed Belly Pork

Name: Membrillo- and Pepper-Glazed Belly Pork
Yield: Serves 4 as a main meal
Ingredients: fennel seeds 1 tsp, crushed; lemon juice 2 tbsp; membrillo (quince paste) 125 g/4½ oz; sea salt flakes 2 tsp; pork belly 1.5 kg/3 lb 5 oz in one piece; extra-virgin olive oil 2 tbsp, plus extra for rubbing in; black peppercorns ½ tbsp, freshly ground

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a main meal

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pepper

By Christine McFadden

Published 2008

About

Made from the fragrant quince, membrillo is delicious with pork, its unmistakable sweetness blending perfectly with fennel and black pepper. This is bone-sucking stuff, definitely for eating with your fingers.

Ingredients

pork belly 1.5 kg/3 lb 5 oz in one piece

Main course
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/Gas 7. Using a sharp knife (a Stanley knife is perfect), score the pork skin through the fat, but not the flesh, making diagonal slashes about 2cm/¾in apart. Then cut the meat into eight strips, measuring about 13 x 5cm/5 x 2in.

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