Enjoy something other than turkey over the Christmas period with this fennel rubbed pork belly. This roast is perfect for feeding friends and family.
Ingredients
2.5kg piece pork belly
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 sprigs rosemary
1 tbsp fennels seeds
olive oil
salt
2 onions, thickly sliced
500ml white wine
2 tbsp flour
500ml chicken stock
Method
1
Heat the oven to 220c/fan 200c/gas 7. Score the skin of the pork belly. Put in the sink skin-side up and pour over a kettleful of boiling water. Lift out. Mix 4the crushed cloves of garlic, the finely chopped leaves from rosemary and the fennel seeds with a little olive oil and salt and rub all over the pork skin.
2
Lay the thickly sliced onions in a roasting tin and pour in the white wine. Put the pork on top and roast for 30 minutes. Turn down the oven to 160c/fan 140c/gas 3 and continue cooking for 3 hours. Lift the pork off the onion and let it rest under foil and a tea towel. Pour off most of the fat from the pan, then stir in the flour and cook it for a couple of minutes on the hob. Add the chicken stock and bubble everything together to make a gravy, strain into a jug and serve with the pork.