Hi all
Tried a new recipe last night from inspiration off Chef John from Foodwishes.com
My recipe again has been changed Michelle style...lol
Basically we started trying to make bacon again but the recipe we used for the bacon was wrong proportionately... we got it off the web...
My recipes always fail when I try someone else’s...lol
Every recipe that fails when I cook only fails when I follow recipe step by step...
Really must stop doing that (following others recipes step by step) lol...
know it doesn’t work for me...lol
Anyway back to the recipe I did...
I had a lovely piece of pork belly about 1-1kg
Used ¼ cup salt
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup maple syrup
10 juniper berries crushed
Good grinding of black pepper
Mix everything together really well
Smear the belly with the mixture all over leave nothing uncovered. Put it into a Ziploc bag and leave 24 hours and then turn over
Liquid will build up leave it in the bag. Do not get rid of the liquid.
Leave for further 24 hours and turn again and then for final 24 hours and turn again.
Next day rinse off the belly and pat dry and then slow roast in the oven at 170 degrees for about 1 ½ hours and
then turn the temp up to 200 degrees and cook for further ½ hour and
turn the oven off and leave in the oven for a further ½ hour – 45 minutes.
I have used an electric oven in all my cooking so everyone should know their own ovens adjust times accordingly
Once cooled put in the refrigerator overnight
Unfortunately as usual I very rarely measure so the second part of the recipe is approximate
Now for the second part of the recipe
I have used a very good handful brown sugar just under ¼ cup
1 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp rice vinegar
Good splash about 1 ½ tbsp fish sauce
½ chilli finely diced
Good 1 to 1 ½ inch piece of ginger finely grated
2 large cloves garlic crushed
3 large spring onions large sliced
½ chilli left as is
About ½ cup water
Cooked rice to serve
First Dice your pork into good sized pieces and then gently fry to brown
Turn every so often but whilst pork is frying off mix all your ingredients together except the ½ chilli and the diced spring onion that hasn’t been diced and the water
Once the pork is a lovely brown colour add your mixture and cook off for a few minutes to really coat the pork
After a minute or two add your water, the other half the chilli and the spring onions and bring to a boil remember to keep stirring so the pork doesn’t over cook as it’s already cooked.
Allow this to boil and reduce to a lovely sauce that coats the pork as well
Serve nice and hot.
Pork is Lovely and tender and delicious with the rice
Very very yummy
Hard to see the coating on this photo as it's a very light colour but it's a very delicious recipe.
Thanks for looking
Have a great day
Hugs Michelle