Melt in your mouth pork belly...

[dairymoo]

I have a piece of pork belly that I'd like to cook and then add to a sweet chilli noodle dish - loads of coriander, etc. What do you think the best way to cook it would be? Roast it perhaps? I would like it to be really tender and sort of falling apart IYKWIM but it's not a huge piece so I'm worried that roasting it might dry it out too much. Any suggestions?! Thanks in advance

It's difficult to dry out a nice fatty peice of belly pork, I think. Roasting in a slow oven could be the way forward.

Braise it -- remove the skin, scatter with some roughly chopped onions, add a whole red chilli, cover with water (you can add a tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of fish sauce to caramelise, just stir into the water) and cook in a low oven til its tender. Or more sophisticated version here
God I love pork belly

There's a lovely recipe on the cottage smallholder, their site's down atm by the look of it but you put the pork SKIN side down with foil underneath it. Then slice some garlic and rosemary and put it on the meat side. Season, wrap it all up in foil but leaving the crackling side exposed (so the foil is tucking it in and keeping the garlic etc in) and cook it skin side up in a v low oven for 4 hours. The fat all runs into the meat, goodness it was delicious.

Ignore me, it's slightly wrong but here is it, truly fab.

www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=400

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try again

Thanks for all your suggestions. Think I am going to try a recipe from Jamie at Home which uses a rhurbarb marinade - looks yummy so I hope it turns out well.

It was worth your perserverance - it looks fab and I'm up for it! THANK YOU !!