Roast Pork Belly with Crackling

Name: Roast Pork Belly with Crackling
Prep time: 24 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 26 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 1.5kg pork belly, skin scored; 2 tsp salt flakes; 1 tsp fennel seeds; 1 tsp black pepper; 1 tsp garlic powder; olive oil to rub; 3 apples, peeled, cored and quartered for sauce; 2 tbsp sugar for sauce; juice of 1 lemon for sauce; steamed greens and roast potatoes to serve

Australian-style roast pork belly with perfectly crispy crackling, served alongside a golden apple sauce.

Total time

1560 min

Prep

1440 min

Cook

120 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Australian

Ingredients

1.5kgpork belly, skin scored

2 tspsalt flakes

1 tspfennel seeds

1 tspblack pepper

1 tspgarlic powder

olive oilto rub

3apples, peeled, cored and quartered for sauce

2 tbspsugar for sauce

juice of 1lemon for sauce

steamed greens and roast potatoesto serve

Instructions

Pat skin completely dry. Rub with salt, fennel, pepper and garlic.

Let sit uncovered in fridge overnight.

Roast at 220°C for 30 minutes then 180°C for 90 minutes.

Make apple sauce: cook apples with sugar and lemon until soft. Mash.

Rest 15 minutes. Slice. Serve with crackling, apple sauce and sides.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

2019

Protein

35.5g

Fat

199.1g

Carbs

20g

Fiber

3.7g

Sodium

122mg

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