Dermie's Slow Roast Belly of East Cork Pork with Ballyhoura

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• waktu aktif: 360 M
• total waktu: 9 hours

Bahan-bahan

a nice sized pork belly (roughly 1.5kg & ask the butcher to score the belly).

3 tblsp rosemary (finely chopped)

4 garlic bulbs (peeled and halved)

lashings of sea salt & peppercorn.

olive oil.

3 large sweet potatoes or 6 kerr's pinks old potatoes (cut at equal sizes)

6 irish onions (quartered)

2 large ballyhoura cooking apples (peeled, cored and diced).

30 g caster sugar

20 g dark brown sugar

3-4 tbsp water

Petunjuk

1. Preheat your oven to Gas Mark 7 or 220C.

2. Place the rosemary and garlic in a pestle mortar and add 4 generous tbsp of olive oil to make a paste.

3. Brush the paste over the belly of pork and ensure to brush the scores well with the paste.

4. Rub lots of sea salt and ground black pepper over the pork belly and deep inside the scored pieces of pork.

5. Leave to rest for 4hrs-6hrs or ideally over-night so that the pork belly can soak up the paste.

6. Transfer the pork belly, skin-side-up, to a deep roasting tray and cook for 20 minutes at Gas 7 or 220C.

7. Take the pork belly out of the oven and place your onions and potatoes on the bottom of the tray.

8. Rest the pork on top of the vegetables skin-side-up and cook for two and a half hours at Gas 2 or 150C.

9. After the second hour, your pork crackling will be beautiful and brown but if you feel it is becoming too brown, place a piece of foil over it for the remaining 30mins.

10. The pork is done when the juices run clear.

11. Allow the pork belly to rest for 5mins before serving.

12. Deglaze the tray pouring the pork juices into a jug and use for gravy if you wish.

13. Keep the vegetables warm until ready to serve.

14. Next make the apple sauce.

15. Place the cooking apples and water into a heavy bottomed saucepan over a gentle heat.

16. Cover the pan. Stir the apples at regular intervals until they form a pulp.

17. Once the apples have formed into a pulp, add in half the sugar.

18. Taste and add in the remaining sugar if needed depending on the apples.

19. Serve with your pork belly, roasted sweet potatoes and roasted onions.