Slow Cooked BBQ Pork Belly
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Sauce Goddess
Ridiculously delicious barbeque pork belly. You can smoke pork belly easy enough. This recipe is done in the oven. It really is great either way. It takes time either way. Low and slow gives this cut of meat a great flavor and texture.
Ingredients
- 10-12 lb. pork belly (most likely it will still have the skin-more about that later)
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½ cup Sweet Heat spice rub
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1 cup Sauce Goddess Sauce (either Sweet &
- 1 Tbsp. canola or olive oil
Directions
Preheat your oven to 200°.
- If your pork belly has the skin on, hang on the one side and slide the knife against the skin while lifting up the meat portion of the pork belly. Go slow. It’s important to get it right and not waste meat.
Cut the pork belly into 2” cubes.
- Sprinkle Sweet Heat over all the meat pieces. Making sure all sides are lightly coated.
- Heat oil in a heavy dutch oven or deep roasting pan.
- Brown all sides of the belly cubes completely. They should look cooked at this point.
- Remove any fat that has been created.
Add ½ cup of the sauce of your choice. Sweet & Tangy Marinade and Mop sauce is fantastic for this.
- Cover the pan and place in your oven. Set the timer for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, check the pork belly. The cubes should look like they have sunken into themselves- that’s the internal fat cooking out and leaving them emptier. If they still look like full cubes, then continue cooking another 30 minutes.
- Check again after 30 minutes to see if it's ready for the next step.
- At this point remove the excess fat that may be in the pan.
- Add remaining sauce and return to the oven without the lid.
- Cook 30 minutes.
Recipe Note
These little nuggets of porky joy are simply amazing. It's so rich, you really can't eat more than a couple pieces.
