Slow-Roasted Pork Belly

Serves 8
Ingredients: 

Ingredients

2,25kg pork belly, fat side scored
Paste
30ml Huletts Treacle Sugar
10ml dried oregano
30ml lemon juice
15ml oil
15ml ginger
10ml ground cinnamon
10ml nutmeg

Creamy mashed potato, to serve
Method: 

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 150ºC.
  2. Mix all the paste ingredients together.
  3. Make ±1cm deep incisions in the flesh and rub in the paste.
  4. Wrap the pork in foil, place in a roasting pan, flesh side up, and cook for ±2½ hours. Turn skin-side up, halfway through the cooking process.
  5. Increase the oven temperature to 200ºC, remove the foil, sprinkle the skin generously with salt and roast until the skin crackles - ±± 30 minutes.
  6. Serve with creamy mash.