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Pork belly tacos Recipe

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Clyde Ramos

Pork belly tacos
Pork belly tacos

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pork belly tacos. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The toppings for these pork belly tacos are a fusion of Mexican and Asian inspired flavors: cabbage, cilantro, jalapeño, green onion and a light drizzle of spicy-salty-tangy mayonnaise. Paleo pork belly tacos are so satisfying, you can’t help but devour every last morsel! The showstopper of this pork belly taco recipe is the green onion sauce with pickled watermelon rind. Pork Belly Tacos made with tender, juicy, crispy roasted pork belly served with fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro, chimichurri sauce and tangy cotija cheese.

Pork belly tacos is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Pork belly tacos is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pork belly tacos using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork belly tacos:
  1. Get 4 lb pork belly
  2. Make ready Olive oil
  3. Get Dry rub with low sugar
  4. Make ready Corn tortillas
  5. Prepare Flour tortillas
  6. Prepare Additional topping options
  7. Prepare Shredded cabbage for crunch
  8. Make ready Fresh salsa
  9. Get Mexican cojita cheese crumbles
  10. Make ready Diced onions
  11. Get Cilantro
  12. Make ready Limes
  13. Get Tomatoes

There’s nothing I don’t like about pork belly tacos. These pork belly tacos are made with slow-roasted spiced pork belly that’s cubed and fried until crispy. BBQ Pork belly inside a taco? This smoky, meaty twist on a weeknight favorite puts a different perspective on a famous dish.

Steps to make Pork belly tacos:
  1. Remove pork belly from packaging and rinse with cold tap water. Pat dry and set on a cookie sheet.
  2. Slice top side of skin into 1.5 to 2 in squares just deep enough to get to the fat layer.
  3. Rub entire belly with olive oil.
  4. Cover entire belly with dry rub. (use a low sugar rub to avoid burning) I prefer a mixture of blacking seasoning and light dashes of Slap Yo Mamas.
  5. Cook @325 for 3.5 hours. Then last 20 minutes broil on low to get a crispy layer.
  6. Bake for 3.5 hours on a stainless steel rack inset in a cookie sheet. This ensures the belly is above the drippings and helps get the entire surface roasted evenly. The pork belly is done after the entire belly is a consistent color and will be soft if you probe it with a wooden skewer or fork. The meat should tear from the edge fairly easy. Last 20- 30minutes turn on your broiler on low to turn on the top side heating element. This will crispy the top even more but becareful not to let it burn.
  7. The risk of over cooking is lower since it is a high fat content cut.
  8. Once the belly is pulled from oven slice 1 inch slices the length of the belly if you are going to serve immediately or let cool on rack on counter and put away in fridge without slicing. Either way you choose the next step is the same. Once sliced in strips cut slices into chunks.
  9. Get a pan hot med to high heat preferably a cast iron pan and put chunks in. As the cold fat starts to soften break up with the spoon into shreds as big as you would like. If serving straight out the oven break up the chunks into shreds. You are going to quickly sear the shreds as crispy as you would prefer.
  10. Once meat is to your liking remove meat to serving dish. Fry your corn tortillas in the same pan the belly was cooked in for extra flavor. You can use a hot skillet to heat corn or flour tortillas.
  11. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

BBQ Pork belly inside a taco? This smoky, meaty twist on a weeknight favorite puts a different perspective on a famous dish. Get a margarita in your hand and these Pork Belly Tacos with Ancho Chili Roasted Pineapple and Avocado in your belly… it’s Cinco de Mayo people! For this Pork Belly Taco recipe we have slowly cooked pork belly in beer and spices until tender, then coated it in a delicious and spicy marinade (using our Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste). Cooking Channel serves up this Pork Belly Tacos recipe plus many other recipes at CookingChannelTV.com.

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