Roasted Pork Belly with Fennel
🇧🇷Brazil
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(Português)
2 hour(s)
8 servings
Larissa Januário
@larissajanuario- Ingredients
- Recipe
- Pork pancetta in meaty piece2 kg
- Fennel Bulb2 unit(s)
- Orange zest and juice to taste
- Carrot2 unit(s)
- Onion2 unit(s)
- Garlic2 unit(s)
- Garlic Cloves to taste
- Girl's Finger Pepper to taste
- Fresh rosemary and thyme sprigs to taste
- Coriander Seeds to taste
- Fennel seeds to taste
- Dry white wine350 ml
- Enough water to bake to taste
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Choose a full, fleshy belly. For that, you have to have a reliable supplier. With a very sharp knife make the cuts in the leather without sinking to the meat. Ah, but why do that? These cuts will make the skin crispy and golden more easily, as it increases the contact surface with the belly. Besides, of course, looking beautiful!
- Season the meat with salt and pepper and set aside. If you have time, marinate in spices for a few hours.
- Line the bottom of a baking dish with the vegetables: carrots, leeks, onions and especially fennel. All coarsely chopped so that they do not disappear during cooking.
- Place the belly on the baking sheet, sprinkle sliced pepper, orange zest and chopped garlic. Place a whole head of garlic on the side and pour dry white wine into the bottom of the roasting pan. Top up with enough water to cover half of the piece.
- Cover with aluminum and bake in a medium oven. Leave until soft. When the fork easily penetrates the meat, remove the aluminum and let it brown well.
- Serve with white polenta, the cooking vegetables and dark green leaves. Squeeze even the garlic cloves that are sweet and unctuous after roasting.
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Recipe for roasted pork belly with fennel, by Larissa Januário
The recipe for how to make roasted pork belly in the oven has a preparation without much complexity and is very tasty! This wonderful dish is authored by chef Larissa Januário, a talented cook and also a journalist specializing in gastronomy who is part of our DeliRec platform. In her profile, this wonderful chef offers several other recipes, in addition to the oven-roasted pork belly recipe, which you will definitely enjoy learning! With it, you can also venture into cooking and make a spectacular sweet potato gnocchi with cheese and also a different tagliatelle with sausage. If you like to cook, it will be a great opportunity to prepare new recipes for lunch, dinner and meetings, which will leave everyone delighted and receive compliments in the kitchen!
How to treat pork belly?
The pork belly recipe in the oven is divine! Showing off the flavor of pork, while you learn to prepare it at the right point, it is the type of dish that will win over everyone who loves pork and appreciates a good cut.
In order for the meat to be in full condition to be prepared, it is quite important and common to “cure”, that is, to treat the meat, preserve its good condition through seasoning with salt, seasonings, seasonings, in some cases even even with sugar. This process, in addition to preserving the meat for longer, also makes its flavor more evident and pleasant.
A curiosity about this recipe for how to roast porno belly in the oven is that it uses pork belly, which is a cured pork meat, which has its origins from Italy. It is a pork belly that has been previously cured in salt and other seasonings and spices. There are many varieties of this meat and each country, even region, has its own way of preparing and curing it.
This type of pork cut is considered one of the most succulent and tasty and yields fantastic recipes! An interesting detail is that, even being a cut that comes from the belly of the pork, like bacon, the pork belly is not smoked like it, which gives it a less pronounced flavor than it and lighter.
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