Pork belly in caramel sauce

AUTHOR
Isreal Robertson
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
5 1
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 600 g Pork belly (with rind)
  • 8 Shallots
  • 140 g Sugar
  • 125 ml Fish sauce (Asian shop)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 2 Spring onions
  • 1 Cucumber
  • 3 Stem(s) Coriander and Thai basil

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash the pork belly, dab dry and cut into pieces of approx. 1 x 1.5 cm. Peel, halve and cut shallots into strips

  2. 2

    For the caramel sauce, caramelise the sugar in a casserole dish until golden brown. Add fish sauce and 500 ml water, bring to the boil and simmer until the caramel has dissolved. Add shallots and pork belly. Season with pepper. Cover and stew for 1-1 1/4 hours

  3. 3

    In the meantime, clean and wash the spring onions and cut them into pieces of about 4 cm. Wash and peel the cucumber and cut it into approx. 4 cm long pieces. Wash the herbs, shake dry and pluck the leaves

  4. 4

    Season pork belly with pepper. Serve with cucumber, spring onions and herbs. Jasmine rice tastes good with it

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
590 kcal
CARBS
45 g
FATS
32 g
PROTEINS
30 g

Categories & Tags

Miscellaneousvery easy