Pork Belly?

crazyhazy

Does anyone have any recipes for cooking pork belly. My aunt got some reduced to clear 60p for my mum, but she has no idea what to do with it. She's put it in the freezer so is now looking for inspiration!

Bogof_Babe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/showrecord?templatestyle=text&config=ingredientname&page=1&pagesize=15&Id=155

I don't know if this link will work, or if we are allowed to post links (don't know much really do I? ???) but if it does, and if we are, there are some ideas here.

halloweenqueen_2

The aromatic pork belly hotpot sound lovely - I often see it reduced but haven't bought it as I wasn't too clued up on what to do with it - wish I had some now!

Queenie

Haven't checked the link yet, but what I do, is cut the belly into chunks, then quick brown in a pan - pop into a casserole dish, add tinned toms and sweetcorn, some stock and casserole until tender/cooked.

Scrummy!

Also, when time was short, I'd simply grill them (like a pork chop).

Pegleg2001

3tbs mustard
1 small onion - chopped finely
tsp of dried sage
2 cloves garlic - chopped finely
parsnips
potatoes
3 eating apples - halved
3 Tps of Honey
9 fl oz veg stock

Carefully Slice between fat and meat to make flap. Spread 1 tbsp mustard in between. Spread mixed up onion, garlic and sage on top of mustard. Season with salt and pepper.

Fold fat flap back on top (to make sandwich). Smear top of fat with oil and sea salt.

Chop parsnips , potatoes and layer in a cooking tray with apples. Pour on remaining mustard and honey over veggies. Pour in veg stock (or Cider if you want). Put prepared belly pork on top. Cook at 140c in fan oven for 2.5 or 3 hours. Turn veggiess half way through, moving the veg under meat to the outside to ensure thorough cooking.

Ready when meat juices run clear. Allow to rest for 10mins before carving. Detach fat and grill if you want crackling (and broken teeth!).

Just had last Sunday - delicious. Cheap as chips (well, belly pork) too and some come left for sandwiches today.

Pegster

hilstep2000

I bought some yesterday and made Boston Baked Beans.
Cut pork into chunks, brown in a casserole dish, chop an onion, and add, add some garlic, worcestershire sauce, mustard, brown sugar, black treacle, bayleaves tom puree and salt and pepper. Then pour over some veg stock and stick it in the oven, serve with crusty bread.
Sounds weird, but my lot love it!

tiff

I bought some yesterday and made Boston Baked Beans.
Cut pork into chunks, brown in a casserole dish, chop an onion, and add, add some garlic, worcestershire sauce, mustard, brown sugar, black treacle, bayleaves tom puree and salt and pepper.  Then pour over some veg stock and stick it in the oven, serve with crusty bread.
Sounds weird, but my lot love it!

Is that Boston Baked Beans, without the beans?

Sarahsaver

Theres a recipe for it in the latest edition of Olive magazine. Apparently it is also quite trendy at the moment!

maryb

Pork belly makes lovely pate. Chop an onion fine and cook it in a knob of butter until golden but not brown. Then mix with about 1.5 pounds of pork belly meat choped small (but not too fine) mixed with a pot of chicken livers drained and blitzed in the food processor. Then I add a beaten egg and about 2 tbs breadcrumbs (or enough so that it's not too sloppy) and season with mixed herbs, garlic to taste and chopped parsley. A splash of brandy is nice.

The recipe says to line a deep casserole dish with strips of streaky bacon but I never have enough bacon to spare so I just spoon the mixture straight into the casserole, put the lid on and stand it in a roasting tin with boiling water poured in to come up to about halfway up the casserole. Then cook it in a medium oven 180 degrees/Gas 4 for about one and a half hours to one and three quarters.

when you take it out of the oven and take the lid off it will be swimming in grease but just put a bit of wood wrapped in foil on the top and stand something heavy like a couple of tins on it for an hour, then put the whole thing in the fridge until the juices have set to a nice jelly

hilstep2000

Silly me! I was posting so quick I forgot the beans!! I used three cans, kidney, haricot and butter, but you can use anything you've got! Hope that clears it up!

tiff

Thanks Hilstep.

If any of you look through American recipes on the net, navy beans are haricot beans and garbanzo beans are chick peas, as I discovered recently lol