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Rosemary Rolled Pork Belly
Recipe by : Cave Hotel & Golf Resort www . cavehotels . com
Ingredients :
• 4kg pork belly
• 30g salt
• 1 / 2 bunch rosemary
• 4 cloves garlic
• Black pepper
Method :
1 . Blitz the salt , rosemary , garlic and pepper together in a blender .
2 . Lay your pork belly on a chopping board , skin side down , remove the bones and cartilage from the belly ( you can ask your butcher to do this ) then flip the pork belly over so skin side up .
3 . Slice off 1 inch of the skin lengthwise then flip the pork belly over so it ’ s skin side down on the chopping board . Rub the rosemary-salt mixture all over the flesh and roll the pork belly up ( using the end where you have sliced off the skin ). Tie the pork belly up with string and sprinkle the skin of the pork belly with salt .
4 . Place the pork belly on a wire rack in a roast tin . 5 . Place into a 100 ° C oven for 2-3 hours till core temp is at 55 ° C .
6 . Remove pork belly from the oven and turn the temp up to 200 ° C .
7 . Pat down the skin with a paper towel to dry it and re-sprinkle the skin with salt and place back into the oven until the skin is crispy and the core temp is 75 ° C ( around 30-60 mins ).
8 . Let rest and serve .
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