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Pork Belly with Apple Sauce

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Pork Belly with Apple Sauce

Slow-roasted crispy pork belly with crackling and sweet apple sauce. Refrigerating the salted pork skin uncovered overnight dries it out enough to blister into proper crackling once it hits the hot oven.

Total time
1575 min
Prep
1440 min
Cook
135 min
Difficulty
hard
Cuisine
British

Ingredients

1.5kgpork belly, scored
2 tspsea salt
1 tspfennel seeds, crushed
1 tspblack pepper
3Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced
3 tbspcaster sugar
2 tbsplemon juice
pinchcinnamon

Instructions

1

Rub pork with salt, fennel and pepper. Refrigerate uncovered overnight.

2

Roast at 220°C for 30 minutes. Reduce to 160°C for 1.5 hours.

3

Blast at 220°C for final 15 minutes to crisp crackling.

4

Make apple sauce: cook apples with sugar, lemon and cinnamon 15 minutes. Mash.

5

Rest pork 15 minutes before slicing.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
2068
Protein
35.7g
Fat
199.2g
Carbs
33.5g
Fiber
6.4g
Sodium
1078mg

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