How Long To Cook Pork Belly Slices
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Roasted pork belly slices or strips are a recipe from my childhood, they are simplicity personified, some fennel seeds, salt, pepper & an oven!
I have professed my lifelong love of cheaper cuts of meat all over this website. It always has more flavour than premium cuts and I cannot get enough them!
Roast Belly Draft or Strips.
I was involved in a twitter conversation about pork a while ago trying to ascertain when this cut of meat went from belly pork to pork belly.
I was very confused as I grew up knowing it as belly draft. Apparently this is a specific name from a very small geographic region.
So if you are not from the British Midlands and you use this name please let me know in the comments!
This recipe uses pork belly strips, a rarity among cheaper cuts of meat in that it does not necessarily need long slow cooking to make it tender.
Of course, you can slow roast it in the oven as I do with my Chinese pork belly and very British crispy roast pork belly.
You can even cook it in a pressure cooker, like my pressed pork belly with cherries.
Here it is roasted in a hot oven with some seasoning for just 25-30 minutes. The fat content ensures that it stays really succulent inside they crispy and almost chewy exterior.
The Pork.
Pork belly has 3 distinct layers, the skin, a thick layer of fat and then alternating layers of fat and meat.
In fact in Korea pork belly, translates as three-layered meat… You are welcome, and yes I have a Korean pork belly recipe!
It is likely that you will need to visit a butcher or supermarket with a meat counter to get this stuff but it is well worth it!
Ask your butcher for slices around 1-1.5 cm thick, they will likely weigh in at 100-125g each. I serve two per person.
Depending on which end of the belly you have you may have a little "gristle" at one end. If you butcher has left this on just cut it off before roasting.
Serving Suggestions.
I would take this served anyway I could get it.
Growing up my Mom would have served roast pork belly slices with mashed potatoes, peas and gravy. None of this fancy gravy stuff either, it would have been cheap knock off Bisto!
The I have served it in these pictures with my rather foxy Hungarian Lecso.
A pepper and tomato stew that is powered by salami and bacon, yes that is as good as it sounds!
You can go lighter, it would be wonderful with my puy lentils with fennel recipe.
They would also be stunning alongside my roasted pear with blue cheese.
Another lighter option sticking with the pear theme would be this pear salad with a walnut dressing.
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 32 minutes
Simply roast pork belly slices or belly draft as we knew it would and been a wonderful frugal treat, I still adore it today!
Ingredients
- 4 x 100g (3.5 oz) Slices of Pork
- 1 Tsp Coarse Sea Salt
- 1/2 Tsp Black Pepper
- 1 Tsp Fennel Seeds
Instructions
- Dry the pork well on kitchen paper.
- Season generously on both sides with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Lightly crush the fennel seeds and again, season both sides of the pork.
- Place on a baking tray and cook in a preheated oven at 200°C or 400°F for 25-30 minutes.
- Check halfway through cooking and drain some of the fat if there is too much.
- Allow to rest for 5 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
2 Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 481 Total Fat: 28g Saturated Fat: 10g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 15g Cholesterol: 176mg Sodium: 1278mg Carbohydrates: 1g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 0g Protein: 53g
Calorific details are provided by a third-party application and are to be used as indicative figures only.
How Long To Cook Pork Belly Slices
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