Lechon Liempo (Filipino-style Roasted Pork Belly)

Name: Lechon Liempo (Filipino-style Roasted Pork Belly)
Prep time: 3 h 30 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 10 servings Type of fire: three-zone split; 2 Tbsps minced garlic; 1 medium Grill heat; 4 Tbsps olive oil; 1 disposable foil pan; 2 kilograms pork belly, skin on; 2 Tbsps salt; 1 Tbsp white vinegar

Need a gluten free and primal main course? Lechon Liempo (Filipino-style Roasted Pork Belly) could be a super recipe to try. This recipe serves 10. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 1326 calories, 28g of protein, and 133g of fat. If you have olive oil, pork belly, garlic, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 3 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

In a small bowl, whisk together oil, garlic, salt, vinegar, and black pepper.

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Black Pepper

Vinegar

Garlic

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

Bowl

Lay pork belly on a cutting board skin-side down. Score flesh diagonally about every 2-inches. Repeat in opposite direction, creating a diamond pattern.

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Pork Belly

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Cutting Board

Spread garlic mixture evenly all over flesh.

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Garlic

Spread

Roll pork into a cylinder and tie tightly with butcher twine about every inch.

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Pork

Roll

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Kitchen Twine

Light one chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with gray ash, pour out and arrange the coals on either side of the charcoal grate and place a foil pan between the two piles of coals. Cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Run spit of the rotisserie through middle of pork and secure ends with rotisserie forks.

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Pork

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Grill

Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Place on the rotisserie, cover, and cook at medium heat until skin has darkened and crisped and pork registers 160ºF when an instant read thermometer is inserted into the thickest part of the meat, about 3 hours, replenishing coals to maintain temperature as needed.

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Meat