Roast Pork (Chinese Style)
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 3 kg pork belly, with skin
- 130 g coarse salt
- 0.25 ml five-spice powder
directions
- Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
- Score the inner pork belly with a sharp knife.
- Rub the meat with 30g of coarse salt and the five-spice powder.
- Pierce metal skewers through the upper and lower portion of the pork belly to prevent it from shrinking during roasting.
- Rub the remaining coarse salt on the skin of the pork belly.
- Roast the pork for 45 minutes to an hour.
- Halfway through the roasting time, remove the roast pork from the oven and rub off all the salt from the skin. Prick the skin all over with a stainless steel tenderiser needle.
- Return the pork to the oven and roast it on high heat until pork is blackened and skin is crispy. Remove from oven and scrape off the blackened part.
- Return to oven and continue roasting till done.
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I started my cooking journey full blown about 4 years ago because my kids started to eat more solids and we moved to a little town. I wanted to Introduce my kids to a different variety of food hence I cooked them at home since we can't get them out here.