Pork Belly Ideas, Please

[NoMercy]

I have a lovely piece of pork belly and would like some ideas, please.

I'm not keen on gloopy marinades. I invariably make a Sunday roast out of it but I would like some different ideas that aren't too haute cuisine - just something simple.

Ta everso.

[dannyk13]

Not much you can do with pork belly other than roast it.Try it with some cloves stuck in the top.

[NoMercy]

I'll roast the meat, Danny, but I'm after different serving suggestions.

Maybe salad, maybe ratatouille, yada yada...

[dannyk13]

This might suit you:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10449879/Chilli-roast-pork-belly-with-clove-apples-recipe.html

[-SharonA-]

I had this last Sunday. But you probably won't like what I did, which was cut into strips and served with a barbecue sauce. It was delish and tender after slow roasting.

[NoMercy]

That does sound nice, Sharon, but I am trying to avoid high sugar foods at present.

Danny, your link led me to other interesting recipes, namely a salted caramel crumble. A recipe to keep for the future.

I'm wondering about a pork belly with either colcannon or braised red cabbage and cider jus.

[ummmm]

I'd do a simple apple sauce and instead of colcannon I'd crush some nice floury spuds with rocket, lots of butter and S&P.

Then add some other greenery.

[Berniecuddles2]

boring maybe..I like my belly strips very crispy served with creamy garlic mash and thick homemade onion gravy

[chelle7272]

Jerk seasoning and serve with sweet potato mash

[atalanta]

Pork'n beans.

[asj49]

You could try Sabrina Ghaynour's 6-hour Eastern-Spiced pork belly - from Sirocco. Its fab and, while the cooking time seems a bit daunting, you can safely leave it in the oven while you g out shopping ...

[MallyJ]

My mother used to curry belly pork.....it was awful...all that fat!!!! Have never been able to look at it since...my advice? Bin it and get some lean meat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hc4361]

Love belly pork. I often serve it with red cabbage braised with apples and red wine, and mashed potatoes, carrots and roast parsnip

[Coppit]

I bought one last week and stuffed it with sage and onion. (Why is PB so much more expensive than pork chops when the latter contain so much more meat vs fat?).

[hc4361]

You must be going to the wrong butcher, Coppit.

[237SJ]

It's funny how pork belly has become so fashionable. When my Dad kept pigs it was called something like enderlean/endolean bacon. It was the part where the bacon ended and the fatty cheap part of the pig started. My Mum would have thrown it out but my Dad liked it.

[hc4361]

It' always been pork belly or draft of pork in my family - never heard of enderloin. Could you be thinking of tenderloin?

[NoMercy]

I only cooked it for first time last year and now I'm a devotée.

I think Jean Christophe Novelli did a pork belly braised in cider. I might look up the recipe.

[EcclesCake]

Slash the skin turn over over and spread with ideally homemade pesto or good quality fresh from supermarket. Roll up tie wit with string and roast according to weight. Serve with left over pesto let down with EVO and lemon juice and veg, carb of choice.

Alternatively, score and lay on a bed of sliced fennel bulb, onion and garlic. Rub the skin with fennel seeds and salt and pepper. Again accompaniments to choice.