2 x Pork Belly 400g 2 x Sticky Asian Marinade 4 x Long Milk Bun 1 x Carrot 1 x Tele Cucumber 1 Asian Herb Bunch 2 x Birds Eye chilli
Sticky Asian Pork Cooking Instructions:
1. Score the pork belly skin and pat it dry. Preheat oven to 220 C (fan-forced). Rub skin with salt and roast skin-side up for 30 minutes to crisp.
2. Reduce heat to 160 C, baste generously with the 3/4 marinade and roast for another 60 minutes, basting halfway through. Whilst the pork is cooking Julienne the salad items.
3. Rest the pork, slice, and drizzle and spoon over the extra marinade.
4. Place the pork, buns, cut veg and herbs on the table and let the team assemble their bahn mi
*** Optional: For ultra-crispy crackling, finish under a hot grill for 3 5 minutes watch it like a hawk! Serve with steamed greens and jasmine rice or tuck into bao buns with pickled veg for a real treat
Cooking Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 250c. Pat dry skin of pork and crack salt all over the skin (lots).
2. Once at temperature place the pork in the tray skin side up and cook for 60-70 mins, until the skin is blistered and cracked.
3. Julienne the carrots, thinly slice the shallots and cut the cucumbers in battons.
4. Once crackled, reduce the oven to 180c. Remove pork from the oven, pour the caramel into the tray and over the pork, combine the tray juices with the caramel, roll the pork in the sauce so its covered on all sides and return to the oven for five minutes. Remove from the oven, turn the pork belly on the side and use a sharp knife to cut into 1/2 cm slices.
At the same time add the long buns to oven to crisp the outside
5. Make your creation in this order; Lay the bed by layering the salad in and top with pork belly spooning the additional sauce on top.
Optional toppers
For chilli lovers top with chilli
Controversial coriander lovers add coriander
Mad on Mayo add whole egg mayonaisse
Love everything add everything
Ingredients
STICKY ASIAN
Cheong Chan cooking caramel
Cinnamon (ground)
Cinnamon stick
Cloves
Coriander
Mint
Soy sauce (light)
Soy sauce (sweet ABC)
Star anise
Brown sugar
