Recipe: Yummy Hoisin Pork Belly with Crispy Crackling
Hoisin Pork Belly with Crispy Crackling. This pork belly has skin that is incredibly crispy, perfectly golden, and the prep work is very minimal compared to all the other pork bellies I've made. Nobody does crispy pork belly like the Chinese! The secret to the perfect, shatteringly crisp, perfectly seasoned crackling is to bake with a salt crust.
Give this recipe a try (it's Chinese Style) or enhance your favorite pork belly recipe with this technique. I promise you will like it! This slow-roasted pork belly is tender with a delicious crispy skin (crackling). You can cook Hoisin Pork Belly with Crispy Crackling using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Hoisin Pork Belly with Crispy Crackling
- It's 1 of Pork Belly.
- It's of Hoisin sauce.
- You need of Salt.
All it needs are simple seasonings and olive oil. Pork belly is a fatty piece of meat that is often used to make bacon and pancetta. However, it can also be roasted, resulting in a flavorful cut with delicious crispy skin. Note: Crispy pork belly can be found in any Chinese grocery store or butcher that sells barbecue meat.
Hoisin Pork Belly with Crispy Crackling step by step
- Score skin of pork belly using a sharp knife. Be careful to cut only through the skin and not into the fat..
- Flip the pork belly over and brush the meat side of the belly as well as the sides with hoisin sauce. Be careful not to get any sauce on the skin side, we need to keep this side as dry as possible..
- Transfer belly to a roasting dish, meat side down..
- Wipe skin dry with a paper towel and add salt. Massage the salt into the skin, making sure to get some salt into the scoring marks. Set aside for at least 2-3 hours, wiping off moisture every hour..
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Make sure the skin of the pork belly is completely dry before placing it into the oven for an hour..
- Serve with some steamed and pickled veggies and creamy potato mash 💛 I made a quick glaze with some of the pan drippings, fresh chilli, ginger, garlic, hoisin sauce, soy sauce and brown sugar. Delicious 👌🏼.
Prepared crispy pork belly from different stores contain varying amount of salt. Taste it before you proceed as you may find that you less fish sauce than the amount called for in this recipe. Famous Chinese crispy pork belly recipe with detailed photo guide and tips shared. Wrap the pork belly with foil wrappers and place in fridge overnight. Perfect, crispy pork belly is easier to make than you think.