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Honey Soy Ginger Pork Belly

Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time2 hours 15 minutes
Total Time2 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 lb pork belly cut into 1 1/2 inch strips
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tsp fresh ginger grated
  • 1 cup water

Instructions

  • Place pork belly strips into a sealable bag.
  • Mix together honey, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and water to create a marinade.
  • Tip marinade on top of pork belly, massage the meat until it is completely coated.
  • Seal bag and place in fridge for two hours.
  • Remove pork belly from fridge and allow to rest until room temperature - approx. 30 minutes.
  • Remove pork belly from marinade and place in an overproof dutch oven and cover.
  • Discard leftover marinade and place dutch oven in a preheated oven at 280.
  • Cook for two hours until a knife can easily glide through the pork belly.
  • Remove from oven and transfer pork belly from dutch oven to a cooking tray leaving behind the sauce.
  • Tip sauce into a fat separator with strainer to get rid of stray bits left behind and then pour the gravy back into the dutch oven leaving the fat behind.
  • Place dutch oven on a high heat and reduce sauce by one third.
  • Taste sauce while reducing and add soy sauce, honey or water as needed, if needed.
  • Place pork belly under the broiler on medium heat and brown on both sides.
  • Allow pork belly to rest for 5 mins and serve with a generous pour of sauce.