Roast Pork Belly 

	    
              
  • 6 People
  • 17 min.
  • easy 
Roast Pork Belly 
Ingredients
  • 1.5 kg pork belly
  • 5 ml Robertsons barbecue spice
  • Robertsons Atlantic sea salt
  • 2 red onions, halved
  • 2 carrots, peeled and halved lengthways
  • 2 celery sticks, chopped in half
  • 30 ml Robertsons thyme
  • 1 Knorr chicken stock pot
  • 600 ml water
  • 30 ml cornflour, mixed to a smooth paste with a little water
Cooking Method
  1. Using a small sharp knife make scores about a centimetre apart through the skin into the fat.

  2. Rub Robertsons Barbecue Spice and Atlantic Sea salt into all the scores you've just made, pulling the skin apart a little if you have to. Brush any excess salt off the surface of the skin.

  3. Place your pork, skin side-up, in a roasting tray, and Roast at 220°C for about half an hour until the skin of the pork has started to puff up and turn into crackling. Turn the heat down to 180°C and roast for another hour.

  4. Baste with the fat in the bottom of the tray. Add vegetables and Robertsons thyme to the tray and stir them into the fat.

  5. Roast for another hour until meltingly soft and tender. Carefully move the meat to a serving dish.

  6. Spoon away any fat in the tray, then add the Stock pot and water and place the tray on the hob.

  7. Bring to the boil and simmer for a few minutes, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to scrape up those lovely sticky tasty bits on the bottom of the tray.

  8. Thicken with Cornflour before serving if desired.

  9. Serve the pork with the crackling, gravy, some creamy mashed potato, fresh greens and a dollop of English mustard.

  • Nut Free
  • Dairy Free
  • Gluten Free