Slow cooked crispy skinned pork belly
February 3, 2015
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 3 hrs 30 mins
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10 mins
3 hrs 30 mins
3 hrs 40 mins
- Yields: 6
Directions
1Make sure the pork is really dry. This can be achieved by leaving in the fridge uncovered for 1-2 days.
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3Remove the pork from the fridge and score the rind at 1cm intervals, ensuring it is well scored down to the flesh. This makes for easy carving and also allows for the salt to penetrate.
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5Salt the pork liberally and rub in. Repeat. Salt a final time without rubbing the salt in.
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7Line base of slow cooker with quartered carrots and sit the pork on top (fat side up) of the bed of carrots.
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9Cook for 3.5 hours on low.
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11At the 3 hour mark, turn the oven on to the highest mark to preheat it.
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13After the full 3.5 hours, remove pork from the slow cooker, salt a final time (without rubbing it in) and place atop a cake rack on a tray. Put carrots to the side and cover with foil to keep warm. Put pork into preheated oven until desired crackling has been achieved. My oven max is 260 and it took around 25 minutes.
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15Slice pork belly along the pre-cut lines and serve with gravy, apple sauce and vegetables of choice.
Submitted by Christy Roth
12 Reviews
Leonore
June 22, 2019
Do you use any liquid with carrots below the belly?
Paulene @ Slow Cooker Central
May 4, 2017
Fat side up meaning the crackle 🙂
Arthur Gane
May 3, 2017
I am sorry. Not the greatest cook. You say fat side up. By that do you mean the crackling side up or down????
I know sounds silly but as I said not worlds greatest cook.
Sandra Donkin
April 26, 2017
I’ve made Kylie Kwongs pork belly recipe for years, but in the oven. I’ll give this a try next time. I call it the 3 day pork as the prep/marinade is best left that long, uncovered in the fridge. The whole recipe is counter intuitive, but works every time. If you rush a step, it’s not as nice.
Nicole
March 31, 2017
Yummo. We have pork belly all the time in the slow cooker.
Paulene @ Slow Cooker Central
March 30, 2017
This recipe you are asking about states that it cooks on LOW
Although it’s a smaller piece you are cooking I wouldn’t drop it by a lot still
How about 3hrs 🙂
Rhonda Fennell
March 29, 2017
I have a pork belly in freezer, it is only 800 grams how long should in cook in slow cooker for ? on HIGH or LOW ??
JOY
October 29, 2016
Fantastic. Best ever!
Thanks!
Sally
August 15, 2016
So easy and delicious ! I put sweet potato and potato underneath, first time to eat like this and they were very flavoursome and yummy. Best cracking I’ve ever achieved too. I didn’t dry out the meat overnight and still worked fine.
Jason Anderson
May 16, 2016
Came up fantastic. I used a mix of carrot and potato (with one onion) below the pork belly, and put them in the oven with a little bit of the pork fat that had rendered while I was making the crackling – great flavour!
Melissa O
April 14, 2016
Very good recipe. So easy you can’t wreck it. I substituted with Himalayan rock salt and sweet potatoe. Also used grill function for last 10 minutes. My oven went to 250.
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Paulene @ Slow Cooker Central
June 22, 2019
No added liquids needed, the pork will release liquids during cooking 🙂