Roast Pork Belly

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
A World in My Kitchen

By Peter Gordon

Published 2003

  • About

This is the first of two versions of how to cook a pork belly. Perhaps not viewed as one of the healthiest of meats as it’s high in fat, but definitely one of the tastiest and great to eat in winter as it’s so rich and comforting. Roast pork belly with mashed swede or sweet potato is just 50 good.

Ingredients

  • 3 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 kg (<

Method

Turn oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Rub salt and sugar into scored skin as well as the skinless side. Lay the belly on a cake rack, skin-side up, and sit the rack in a roasting dish, suspended about 4 cm (1 ½ in