About 1-1.5kg pork belly joint 2 large carrots 2 celery stalks About 4 banana shallots or 2 medium onions 3 bay leaves Few sprigs of thyme About 6 garlic cloves 2 tsp of ...

1. Use a sharp knife to score lines through whole of rind of pork belly at roughly 5mm (¼in) intervals. Scoring allows heat of oven and oil and salt to work their way through joint drawing out ...

but on the flip-side it's very easy to cook this forgiving pork joint. Use our roast calculator to work out exact roast pork cooking times and temperatures. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.

For the uninitiated, a cracklin is a chunk of skin-on pork belly that’s fried in pork fat until the skin is crisp and the layers of meat and fat have been reduced into a morsel of concentrated ...

Slow roasting a huge joint of pork gives you time to get ... cutting so that the loin opens up and it is as flat as the belly part of the pork. Season with salt and black pepper then spoon the ...