Out to Rick Stein for this white man’s take on a classic Asian dish. Suffice to say this dish is not for those on any kind of misery-inducing diet. Probably has about 2000% of your daily sodium and fat allowance but damn is it tasty. Recipe as follows:
1 Piece of Belly with the rind (1 – 1.5 Kg)
1 Tbsp SchezuanPeppercorns
1 Tsp Black Peppercorns
2 Tbsp Sea Salt
2 Tsp Five Spice Powder
2 Tsp Caster Sugar
1. Spike the skin of the belly with a fine skewer or larding needle as many times as you can, going through into the fat but not so deep that you go into the flesh. Then pour a kettle full of hot water over the skin, leave it to drain and then dry it off well.
2. Heat a dry, heavy based frying pan over a high heat.
3. Add the Schezuan and black Peppercorns and shake them around until they darken slightly and start to smell aromatic. Transfer to a spice grinder and grind to a fine powder. Tip them into a bowl and stir in the Sea Salt, 5 Spice Powder and sugar.
4. Turn the Pork flesh side up on a tray and rub the flesh all over with the spice mixture. Set it aside somewhere cool to marinate for 8 hours or overnight.
5. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Turn the Pork skin side up and place it on a rack, resting on top of a roasting tin of water. Roast the Pork for 15 minutes, then lower the temperature to 180 degrees and roast it for a further 2 hours, topping up the water as necessary.
6. Chop into pieces (have a sneaky taste) and serve
by SeanM
