This indulgent recipe for Pork Belly and Mojo Verde is packed full of fresh Spanish flavours and one that's sure to impress at a dinner party.
Ingredients
Pork
Method
1
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2
Line a roasting tray with greaseproof paper. Score the skin of the pork belly quite deeply (around 1cm), then place it skin side down on the paper-lined tray. Season the top of the pork belly with salt, pepper and cumin seeds and cook for 1½–2 hours. The skin should be very crispy and the meat must be tender – if it’s not quite there yet, turn it over and cook it for another 10 minutes.
3
Make the mojo verde while the pork belly is cooking: roughly chop the spring onions, garlic and herbs and add them gradually to a pestle and mortar with the rest of the ingredients, dribbling in the olive oil bit by bit and mashing together.
4
Spoon some mojo verde on to each plate, then top with 1–2cm thick pork belly slices and drizzle over a little olive oil to finish.