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Lacquered Pork Belly

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Course Main Course
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

Pork Belly

  • 400 g pork belly, approx 1 lb (skin off or on)
  • 1 tsp five-spice powder
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp ginger powder
  • 1 tsp salt

Lacquer

  • 2 Tbsp hoisin
  • 1 tsp chili oil
  • 1 tsp five-spice powder
  • 1 Tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat over to 200ºF/95ºC
  • Stack a piece of parchment over a piece of aluminum foil (big enough to wrap pork belly). Pat pork belly dry and place on parchment paper. If belly has skin, score the skin in a criss-cross pattern. Sprinkle all surfaces with five-spice, salt, ginger and garlic powder, patting into meat. Wrap pork belly with parchment paper, and then foil. Place in oven on ovenproof dish, fatty side up. Let cook for five hours.
  • Mix together lacquer ingredients. After five hours of cooking, remove pork belly from oven and increase oven temperature to 325ºF/165ºC.
  • Remove pork belly from wrapping and place in ovenproof dish, fatty or skin side up. Spoon some of lacquer on top, and place back in oven.
  • Cook pork belly for one additional hour, removing every 10 minutes to spoon additional lacquer over the pork belly. After one hour of cooking, remove and let sit for 5-10 minutes. Then, move to a cutting board, cut with a sharp knife and serve.
Keyword Five Spice, Lacquered, Pork, Pork Belly, Slow Cooked