Pork Belly with Apple Sauce

Name: Pork Belly with Apple Sauce
Prep time: 24 h
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 26 h 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1.5kg pork belly, scored; 2 tsp sea salt; 1 tsp fennel seeds, crushed; 1 tsp black pepper; 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced; 3 tbsp caster sugar; 2 tbsp lemon juice; pinch cinnamon

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

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

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

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

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

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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