Lechon pork belly. This lechon belly recipe is an oven roasted pork belly rolled and stuffed with herbs and spices. This is sometimes known as Cebuchon because as far as I know this dish is popular in Cebu city. Unlike the tradition cooking of lechon belly, which is using a bed of charcoal, roasting it in an oven would make the cooking easier and simpler.
It is called bellychon, lechon belly, lechon liempo, roasted pork belly, and what have you. One thing is for sure, whatever this dish is referred to, the taste and flavor should be the same. This means that it should be tasty and delicious while being crispy on the outside.
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This lechon belly recipe is an oven roasted pork belly rolled and stuffed with herbs and spices. This is sometimes known as Cebuchon because as far as I know this dish is popular in Cebu city. Unlike the tradition cooking of lechon belly, which is using a bed of charcoal, roasting it in an oven would make the cooking easier and simpler.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lechon pork belly using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lechon pork belly:
- {Take 2 kg of pork belly.
- {Take 4 tbsp. of rock salt.
- {Get of !0 pcs garlic cloves.
- {Get 2 tbsp. of crack black pepper.
- {Take 1 pcs of KATYA a plain woven cotton fabric, or muslin cloth, cheese cloth to wrapped around the meat, to protect the skin or the outer layer of the meat., while its in a simmering stock.
- {Make ready 4 tbsp. of soy sauce.
- {Make ready 4 pcs of star anise.
- {Prepare 3 pcs of dried bay leaf.
- {Prepare 2 tbsp. of whole black peppercorn.
- {Make ready 1 pc of whole large white onion.
- {Make ready 1 1/2 of lit. of water.
- {Make ready 1/2 of lit. cooking oil.
- {Make ready 2 pcs of lemon grass (use the root part).
- {Make ready 1 of twine to trust the belly from cooking.
Lechon Belly is actually very simple to make. It needs planning ahead, that is true because it requires a long oven time. Aside from the pork belly, the other things needed is the seasonings. Different regions use different stuffing depending on what is available in the area.
Instructions to make Lechon pork belly:
- Season the meat with 2 tbsp. salt and 2 tbsp. cracked pepper. insert pcs of garlic cloves inside the meat. drizzled it with soy sauce, place the lemon grass in the middle of the meat, start to rolled it round, and trust it tightly with a twine..
- Wrapped the rolled meat, with a cloth, and set aside..
- In a big pot or a casserole, enough to submerge the whole meat in a stock. On a medium heat, roast the bay leaf, whole black peppercorn, and star anise together until the scents arise, filled the water, pour 2 tbsp. salt, soy sauce, add the cut onions, submerge the wrapped meat and simmer it for in about 45 minutes with a close lid. Set the heat to a medium and continue simmering it for about 20 minutes..
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- Off the simmering, take out the meat from the pot, remove the cloth, set it aside into the roasting metal sheets with a wire rack, rest for a bit.
- Pre heat the oven to 176F for 10 minutes. Once down, set the timer for 35 minutes using the same degree of the oven and place the meat inside the oven. take it off from the oven. Heat up cooking oil till it is very Hot..
- Slowly pour the very hot oil into the skin of pork belly.
Pork belly is uncured, un-smoked and un-sliced bacon. It is very popular in Chinese, Korean, and Filipino cooking (lechon kawali.) Ask your local butcher to get you fresh, skin-on, center-cut pork belly. I've noticed that my Costco carries the meat as well, but it is still cheaper to buy in Asian grocery stores. Lay the pork slab on flat surface and place the rolled lemon grass, leek, and garlic. Now roll up the pork slab, form a roulade with the garlic, leeks, and lemon grass on the center.
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