Crispy Pork Belly with Chilli Caramel
Crispy Pork Belly with Chilli Caramel

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have crispy pork belly with chilli caramel using 23 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Crispy Pork Belly with Chilli Caramel:
  1. Make ready MASTERSTOCK:
  2. Get 400 ml light soy
  3. Make ready 400 ml dark soy
  4. Get 500 ml chinese cooking wine
  5. Prepare 400 g brown sugar
  6. Make ready 6 garlic cloves, brused
  7. Get 4 cloves
  8. Get 6 star anise
  9. Prepare 3 cinnamon quils
  10. Get 1 tsp fennel seeds
  11. Make ready 3 L water
  12. Prepare 2 small knobs ginger, bruised
  13. Make ready 1/2 bunch spring onion
  14. Take 2 kg pork belly, skin and bones removed
  15. Make ready CHILLI CARAMEL:
  16. Prepare 50 g long red chilli, finely sliced
  17. Get 200 g coconut sugar
  18. Take 100 g palm sugar
  19. Take 125 ml water
  20. Take 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
  21. Get 1 tbs sea salt
  22. Take 2 tbs fish sauce
  23. Get 20 g ginger, finely julienned

The pork skin is incredibly crispy, perfectly golden, and the prep work is very minimal compared to all the other pork bellies I've made. I've been obsessed with making the perfect crispy pork belly. I've had some success (here and here), but one thing that really bothered me was having to score the skin. Drizzle with a small amount of peanut oil and sprinkle over the chilli.

Instructions to make Crispy Pork Belly with Chilli Caramel:
  1. Masterstock: Put everything except the pork belly into a large stockpot into which the belly will fit snugly.
  2. Bring to the simmer and add the belly. Use a plate to submerge the belly.
  3. Simmer gently for 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours until tender. If the tip of the sharp knife goes through the meat easily. It is done. Let cool slightly. Carefully lift the belly out.
  4. Sandwich between two trays, skin side down, with a heavy weight on top and leave in refrigerator overnight.
  5. Bring the stock back to a boil to sterilize. Cool and store. The stock can be reused by topping up extra seasoning and spice.
  6. The next day, trim the pork belly and cut into 2 1/2 cm cubes.
  7. Chilli Caramel: Soak and sliced chilies in a container of warm water. The majority of seed will sink to the bottom. Discard the water and the seeds.
  8. Bring all the ingredients to simmer in a pot. Simmer for 10 minutes and cool.
  9. To Finish: Fry the cubed pork belly in 180 C vegetable oil until golden brown.
  10. Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
  11. Warm up enough of the chilli caramel to coat pork belly. Toss the belly in a chilli caramel until well coated.
  12. Scatter over the coriander to garnish
  13. Serve with the Nam Pla Phrik on the side.

Place the pork belly pieces in a large bowl and gently toss with a few spoonfuls of the palm sugar caramel. 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. The best crackling in the world with juicy seasoned flesh, no one. Succulent Pork Belly with a sweet & spicy Chilli Caramel Glaze!

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