Pork belly salad with radishes, hot and sour plum sauce
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Pork belly salad with radishes, hot and sour plum sauce
750g pork belly slices
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
Mix the honey, soy and vinegar together and add the pork. Mix well and marinate for a few hours in the fridge. Set oven to 200oc and line a baking tray with parchment paper. Place the belly on top and cook for about half an hour, turning once.
12 radishes, halved
Heat a pan and add the pork to crisp the fat. Add the radishes and juices from pork. Cook until golden. Add a couple of tablespoons of the plum sauce on top of the pork
Hot and sour plum sauce
250g plums, halved, stoned and chopped
1 tablespoon oil
1 red onion, chopped
100ml cider vinegar
2 star anise
2 cloves garlic, chopped
25g ginger root, chopped
1 red chilli chopped
25ml soy sauce
35g dark brown sugar
Cook the onion, ginger, chilli and garlic gently in the oil and then add the plums, vinegar, star anise, soy and sugar. Simmer until the plums are soft. Remove anise and blend to a smooth puree. Pass through a fine sieve
2 little gem, separated into leaves
4 chopped scallions
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
1 tablespoon desiccated coconut
1 teaspoon black sesame seeds
Toast the seeds and coconut in a dry pan until the coconut is golden.
Place the lettuce on a platter or plates. Add the pork, radishes, scallions and sprinkle the seed mixture onto the pork. Drizzle over a little more sauce and serve.