
Belly Pork Joints Bone InFrom: £5.95
(From 11 Reviews)
(From 11 Reviews)
Fresh & cut to order belly pork joints from just £5.95 per kg. This will make you the best crackling!!
Pork belly is a fairly inexpensive cut of meat, from the underside of the pig near the loin. It can be quite fatty but if you cook it right you will not be disappointed.
Pork belly needs a combination of slow, gentle heat to cook the meat perfectly, plus a shorter blast at a higher heat to crisp up the skin. Cook at 180C/160C fan/gas 4 to cook the meat, then turn up the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 at the end to crisp the crackling.
Choose your joint size from:
1.00kg (3-4 people)
1.50kg (5-6 people)
2.00kg (7-8 people)
2.50kg (9+ people)
This easy pork belly recipe really only needs 3 ingredients.Good quality pork is sweet, succulent and perfect seasoned generously with salt and pepper. If you however wanted to add more, rubbing the meat of the pork belly with garlic or herbs like rosemary, thyme or sage will add extra flavour.
Prepare the pork belly. Score the skin with a sharp knife. Or ask us to do it. Take care not to cut through to the meat. Pat dry with paper towels then season generously with salt and pepper on both sides.
Place pork belly in a roasting or baking dish and place on the middle rack in a hot oven (220°C/430°F) to roast for 30 minutes. Turn the heat down to 160°C/320°F and continue roasting for 25 minutes per 500g/1lb.
Allow to rest. Remove the cooked pork from the oven, tent loosely with foil and allow to rest for at least 10 minutes before carving and serving. Resting the meat after cooking is the most important step in the whole cooking process. Hours of marinating and perfect cooking means nothing if your meat hasn’t rested. Resting allows all the natural juices to re-distribute back into the meat and makes pork moist.
Season the meat with salt and pepper before cooking.
Don’t forget to bloom the meat.
The trick to crunchy crackling?
Dry skin. The skin on the pork belly needs to be very dry for it to be able to bubble and crisp up. Before placing the pork in a hot oven, Rub the skin with salt and lots of black pepper. The salt also adds to the crisping of the skin. Starting the roasting at the highest heat possible also helps start that initial crisping of the skin to happen.
Not as ordered was boneless!. Nice pork all the same. Ian Fisher
This is a very nice cut, well butchered. Tominh Tran
Great value and very tasty. Barry Wilson
Perfect product. Colin Mellor
Really tasty great value. David Greaves
(From 11 Reviews)
(From 11 Reviews)
(From 11 Reviews)
(From 11 Reviews)