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Sage Roasted Pork Belly

Serves 6
Cooking Time: 4 hours

Ingredients
1 Free Range Pork Belly (approx. 1.5kg, bone in)
Large handful of fresh sage leaves
flakey sea salt
1 large garlic bulb - halved - skin on
Extra virgin olive oil
Gusto Apple Syrup

Directions:

Preheat oven to 160C.
Remove the bone from the pork belly or ask your butcher to do this for you.
Drizzle both sides with olive oil and salt.
Place the garlic halves on the bottom of the roasting pan, drizzle with a little more oil and sit the pork bones in top.
Layer with sage leaves and then place the Pork skin side down on top.
Roast for 2 hours.
Remove from the oven, turn the Pork Belly over to be skin side up - drizzle a litlle more oil and plenty of salt over the skin of the pork.
Turn the oven to 190C and return the pork to the oven & roast for a further 30-45 minutes until the skin crackles up nicely.
Remove from the oven and let rest for 10 minutes.

Serve in thick slices with a potato & rocket mash and season with salt & pepper, if you desire - drizzle a little Gusto Apple Syrup over & around the pork when serving on the plate for a special touch.

Or for an Asian take, disregard teh sage leaves and sprinkles with meaty side of the pork with Chinese Five Spice or Fennel seeds.
Roast as per recipe and serve with steamed rice & wilted asian greens, drizzled with Kecap Manis (sweet soy).

Purchase products in this recipe:

Gusto - Sweet Apple Syrup 250mls

Gusto - Tart Apple Syrup 250mls

Boned & Rolled Free Range Pork Belly - 750gm portion