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Ingredients

– Pork belly (you want a piece from the centre of the belly preferably)
– Salt, lots of salt…
– Any seasoning or rub your little heart desires for the flesh

Method

1. The day before, take the pork from the packet and dry it really well with a paper towel.
2. Score diamond patterns into the skin but make sure you don’t cut past the fat, you just want to cut through the skin.
3. Place your pork belly onto a wire rack and season it heavily on the skin side.
4. Place in the fridge overnight.
5. The next day, pre-heat your oven to 180°C.
6. Take the pork belly from the fridge and brush off any excess salt on the top.
7. Season the flesh side with any barbecue rub or cracked pepper.
8. Place into the oven for 1 hour. After 1 hour, turn the oven up to 220°C on the grill or broil function but make sure your pork is still in the bottom half section of the oven.
9. Cook it like this for another 30 minutes or until the skin goes super crispy. Just be super careful you don’t burn the crackling at this point as all ovens are different.
10. After a total of roughly 1.5 hours in the oven, your pork belly should be super crispy and still juicy in the centre. Remove from the oven and let it rest for at least 25 minutes before you slice it.
11. Enjoy!

43 Comments

  1. Only tip I'd give is for the video itself. Just make sure to mention you're using celcius for temps. For other Americans that's 350f for 1hr then 430 broil temp while keeping an eye on it.

  2. DNT CARE WHAT I FKN HEAR, THEY AINT TELLIN TRUTH, U PUT SHITLOAD OF SALT ON IT, NO MATTER WHAT ITS GOING TO BE SALTY, THAT BUDDY FKS THIS DISH UP. NO POINT EATING IT

  3. Ong it looks amazing
    Is one hour really enough ?! My recipe I’ve done is like 2 and a half, but it’s annoying because then I have to cut the crackle off and do the individually haha

  4. DONT DO THIS! You should either scrape the skin to clean in, or you should use a totally different appraoch, skipping the scraping, salting and fridging by instead flipping it over and boiling it in half an inch of water so that the skin gets clean then do the normal steps.
    Never just unwrapp it and proceed like it is clean.

  5. Tip: If you want to avoid a smokey house & scrubbing the pan, add an inch of water to the bottom of the tray. It does not impact the crunch whatsoever. Thank me later 🎉

  6. I've seen some recipes using vinegar on the skin to make it more crispy, have you ever tried this Andy? Are the results any different?

    This looks very tasty so i am going to give this a try as well

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