Here’s Our Slow Cooked Cebu Style Lechon Belly Recipe…
Ingredients
1.5kg pork belly bone in
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup pepper, cracked
3 stalks Lemon grass, smashed and twisted
1 garlic head, smashed
4 bay-leaf leaves
Water na kasya ilubog yung meat
To prep the meat:
-Saksakin ng knife or tinidor yung balat ng pork (wag isipin si ex baka maging giniling)
-Tanggalin din yung bone kung meron
-Ilagay sa isang malaking container ang pork with all the ingredients, ibabad at least over night or for good measure a day or two.. (we did our pork for 5days)
-Keep it refrigerated up to the time of cooking..
Cooking instructions:
-Take the meat and ilagay lahat sa gitna ang mga ingredients( bay-leaf, lemon grass, garlic..etc) and lock tight the whole meat in a roll with butchers’ twine
-Preheat your oven/turbo broiler to 150 Celsius for 5mins
-Place the pork at the center and set it at 175 Celsius for 1hr
-After 1hr check the meat, if its still not golden brown at crispy hit the heat up to 200 and flipped the meat on the other side for 30mins
-As finishing touch, flip again the meat on the original position, up the heat to 250 Celsius for 15mins till the skin crisps and golden
-Before serving rest the meat for 10mins..
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