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Colombian-Style Pork Belly

December 2, 2020 by Food For Net 12 Comments

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Colombian-Style Pork Belly Pork belly cooked to perfection. The result makes the somewhat tedious preparation easily worth going through. 1.5 Kilograms Pork Belly1 Piece White Onion (quartered)2 Pieces Bay Leaf1 Tablespoon Black Peppercorns6 Pieces ClovesSalt (to taste)Vegetable Oil (for frying) Combine the pork belly, onions, bay leaves, black peppercorns, cloves, and salt in the slow cooker. Cover with water and leave on high for 3 hours.Take the pork belly out of the pot and set on a cooling rack. Leave to cool to room temperature.Chill the pork overnight.Rub the pork generously with salt.Deep fry over low heat until evenly golden.Set…
Colombian-Style Pork Belly
Colombian-Style Pork Belly
2020-12-02
Food For Net
Fall-off-the-bone tender and really succulent pork meat. Perfectly rendered fat layer. Evenly blistered crackling skin. This is just the best way to cook pork belly!

Colombian-Style Pork Belly

Speed - 93%
Simplicity - 97%
Tastiness - 100%

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Fall-off-the-bone tender and really succulent pork meat. Perfectly rendered fat layer. Evenly blistered crackling skin. This is just the best way to cook pork belly!

User Rating: 2.93 ( 132 votes)

Colombian-Style Pork Belly

Pork belly cooked to perfection. The result makes the somewhat tedious preparation easily worth going through.
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Prep Time: 8 hours
Cook Time: 3 hours
Total Time: 22 hours
Course: Main Dish
Cuisine: Colombian
Servings: 6 people

Ingredients

  • 1.5 Kilograms Pork Belly
  • 1 Piece White Onion quartered
  • 2 Pieces Bay Leaf
  • 1 Tablespoon Black Peppercorns
  • 6 Pieces Cloves
  • Salt to taste
  • Vegetable Oil for frying

Instructions

  • Combine the pork belly, onions, bay leaves, black peppercorns, cloves, and salt in the slow cooker. Cover with water and leave on high for 3 hours.
  • Take the pork belly out of the pot and set on a cooling rack. Leave to cool to room temperature.
  • Chill the pork overnight.
  • Rub the pork generously with salt.
  • Deep fry over low heat until evenly golden.
  • Set on a wire rack and leave to cool.
  • Flash fry over high heat until crackling.
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This recipe is hugely inspired by the crispy pork belly specialty known as the Chicharron Colombiano. I really love how pork belly can end up having diverse textures in just a single dish – a crisp crackling on top, a perfectly rendered fat layer beneath, and extra succulent meat with fall-off-the-bone tenderness at the bottom.

Honestly, I've had several attempts to get to this level of perfection, trying every cooking method from oven-roasting, deep-frying, to broiling. I'll have to say that I'm quite happy with the results that I'm getting to so far. Let me walk you through the tedious(but totally worth) process.

We begin by completely tenderizing the slabs of pork belly in the slow cooker together with our basic flavoring components. You can use any blend of aromatics and spices at this point, but this simple mix of onions, bay leaves, peppercorns, cloves, and salt does prove enough.

I used to do this step on the stovetop, which compared to using the slow cooker, required much more supervision as I had to monitor constantly for liquid evaporation.

I've also tried skipping this step, going by the more traditional way of gentle frying. Though effective at rendering the pork crisp, this method dries the pork out too much, all the way to those layers of lean meat which we all want to remain succulent.

Get the pork really tender, stopping just before the point that it starts to fall apart. Set it on a wire rack, and leave it out to cool to room temperature. Once cool enough, leave it overnight inside the chiller.

Allowing that layer of skin to really dry out is essential to getting the perfect crackling.

Take the pork out of the chiller and rub a generous amount of coarse salt all around it. Not much for flavor, we're using that salt to draw out more moisture, drying our pork even more.

Heat up enough vegetable oil in the fryer to get the pork totally submerged. Fry the slabs of pork belly over low heat until it gets an even golden brown color. This process should take somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes.

Once nice and golden, take the pork out of the fryer and set it on a cooling rack to drain off any excess oil and to cool down to room temperature. This step is again essential and would make a really huge difference to your crackling.

Once the pork has cooled down, get the oil in the fryer really hot and flash-fry those pork belly slices for about a minute or two. Because of the huge temperature difference between the oil and the pork, you should almost instantly notice that skin get those familiar blisters.

Finally, take the pork out of the oil and again set it on the cooling rack to air dry for a couple more minutes. Certain spots on the skin may come out chewy out of the hot oil and should turn out brittle as it cools off a bit.

Filed Under: Dinner, Original Recipes Tagged With: Fried Foods, Other Recipes, Pork, Pork Belly

Comments

  1. Jeanette says

    August 8, 2018 at 4:36 am

    Thank you so very much for this recipe. It was well worth all of the wait time!

    Reply
  2. Ruth Dela Torre MartinR says

    October 26, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    Dear Colombian Style
    Thank you so Much for u recipe with Pork Belly Crackling,. I need to try to cook belly pork my Daughter I think injoy this recipe the test..I love this recipe too ….TThank u and God Bless

    Cheers: Ruth

    Reply
  3. Sherrell says

    January 14, 2020 at 3:57 am

    Yes!! This is going with me to my next Super Bowl Party πŸ˜‹

    Reply
  4. Patrica Mobley says

    April 3, 2020 at 1:32 pm

    delicious !!!!!!

    Reply
  5. Jane Gomez says

    September 16, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Can I use the pressure cooker for s lesser amount of time than the slow cooker?

    Reply
    • Food For Net says

      September 18, 2020 at 2:55 pm

      I haven’t tried that personally.

      Reply
  6. Satinder says

    February 21, 2021 at 10:25 pm

    Gr8 recipe

    Reply
  7. Kjo says

    April 10, 2021 at 12:08 am

    This is auch a super yummy recipe…loved it. I have mad it three rimes. First two times, perfect…third time, for some reason, it didnt crackle the skin, and the fatty part was very gelantinous. I like it a lil’ more on the dry side. Did i not cook it long enuf on the first fry? The skin got a tiny burntish on the flash fry, too? Maybe too much moisture in house? Any hints or tips would be great. My kids love these, and baby likes to teeth on them…lol. thanks

    Reply
    • Kjo says

      April 10, 2021 at 12:11 am

      5 stars
      Sorry about the mis-spellings…was typing very fast. Lol

      Reply
  8. Julie says

    December 16, 2021 at 12:58 am

    Can’t wait to try this recipe out.

    Many thanks.
    Julie πŸ™‚

    Reply
  9. Oz says

    January 9, 2022 at 10:07 am

    5 stars
    Amazing recipe. Thanks! Always learning New cooking tips!

    Reply
  10. Peter says

    June 7, 2022 at 6:22 am

    Crisp outside
    Fall off the bone inside
    Various textures

    You got me.

    Living in Costa Rica it is rare to find these qualities

    So follow your instructions precisely

    Perfecto

    Reply

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