Pork Belly Sliders with a Fennel Apple Slaw
Sweet, succulent pork belly – you a thing of wonder! All that delicious porkiness and sticky or crackled skin – it’s just amazing to eat. It is a versatile cut of meat that has so many uses in the kitchen, many of which will appear here over time. But for now, here is my pork belly slider recipe.
I’d been having a hankering of some good old slow cooked pork belly for a while so it was on my mental food radar. We had some friends coming round for a visit I was doing my usual food ponder. I wanted to cook something tasty but easy to eat especially as we would outside child wrangling at the same time. Sliders seemed like the ideal solution!
I do tend to cook the pork the day before, although this is not essential. This allows me to cool the reserved jus and skim off the fat and slicing the pork is much easier when cold. All that is needed when getting it ready is a quick reheat in a pan or the oven with some of the reserved jus and it is ready to go!
The pork belly for these was simply seasoned and slow roasted with fennel, onion and apple. Sometimes I will use straight salt for the rub, other times I will use a seasoned salt rub – you can pick these up from supermarkets and delicatessens quite readily. The cook time whilst long, is really a set and forget style of cooking which makes this a very simple dish. Here it is served in small rolls with a refreshingly light slaw of fennel and apple.
