Thai-style crispy belly pork
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 2
Ingredients
- 300g Belly Pork, skin scored*
- * Roasting the pork will make the skin nice and crispy
- 1 garlic clove, peeled & crushed**
- 2 cm piece of ginger, peeled and diced**
- 1 onion, medium/large, diced**
- 1 leek, small in size, sliced lengthways**
- ** or add to taste
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp clear honey
- Noodles
- Bean sprouts
- Salt
Method
- STEP 1Preheat oven to 180C/gas 4
- STEP 2Take the belly pork and score the skin right through to the flesh. Score every half inch approx. Scoring through to the flesh will help later when dicing the meat.
- STEP 3Place the pork into a non-stick roasting tray, cover the skin in ground course salt. Place into oven for approx. 1 hour or until skin is golden and crispy. Chop into half inch chunks.
- STEP 4While pork is cooking, crush garlic, thinly chop ginger, dice onion, slice leek, and prepare bean sprouts for cooking in wok.
- STEP 5Heat 1 tbsp of oil in wok add garlic, ginger, onion, leek and bean sprouts and cook until piping hot.
- STEP 6Cook noodles according to packet instructions. Drain noodles thoroughly and add to the ingredients in wok along with the crispy chopped pork. Remove from heat, as noodles and pork should still be hot.
- STEP 7Once removed from heat add soy sauce and honey. Toss well and serve.
- STEP 8Drizzle remaining sauce from wok over food.
- STEP 9Try using a Thai sweet chilli dipping sauce to add a little kick to dish