That traditional, delicious roast pork with crunchy crackled skin and spiced layers that melt in your mouth, is easier to make than you think..
- Ingredients: Belly pork, sea salt, five spice powder 五香粉 and olive oil.
- Turn over the belly pork, sliver the meat at 3x2cm grid, leaving the skin intact, attached.
- Mix sea salt with five spice powder, rub the mix over the meat and deeply into the grid.
- Turn pork over and lay onto baking paper, with skin up, and place into a baking tray.
- Spread olive oil generously and evenly over the skin.
- Pre-heat oven at 250°C with both grill and fan turned on.
- Position baking tray, with skin about 15~20cm directly below the top griller.
- Roasting time depends on size of serving - your eyes are the best to check..
- When the skin has crackled (like boiling with bubbles on the surface) and turned light brown, lower the heat down to ~200°C.
- When the skin turns dark brown, turn the grill off. Leave it for 10~15 minutes, turn the oven off.
Simply turn it over and cut through the grid with a sharp knife..
If it takes you more than 30 minutes, I should invite you to dinner instead :o)
