Pork belly with caramel sauce

AUTHOR
Benton Mccarty
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

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

Directions

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    For the caramel sauce, caramelise the sugar in a casserole dish until golden brown. Add fish sauce and 1⁄2 l water, bring to the boil and cook until the caramel dissolves. Add shallots and pork belly.

  3. 3

    Season with pepper. Covered 1-1 1⁄4 Stew for hours.

  4. 4

    In the meantime, clean and wash the spring onions and cut them into pieces of about 4 cm. Peel the cucumber, cut it in half lengthwise, remove the seeds and cut it into pieces of about 4 cm length as well. Wash the herbs, shake dry and pluck the leaves.

  5. 5

    Season pork belly with pepper. Serve with cucumber, spring onions and herbs. Serve with jasmine rice.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
640 kcal
CARBS
33 g
FATS
44 g
PROTEINS
24 g