Looking for the perfect Sunday roast? Then look no further than this recipe. I made Herb Crusted Pork Belly for The Secret Recipe Club, as an adaption of a recipe that called for untrimmed pork loin.
Today’s inspirational recipe from Lavender and Lime ♥ Herb Crusted Pork Belly ♥ #LavenderAndLime Share on X
I just loved the idea of The Secret Recipe Club when I saw it and I have joined up. Each blogger is assigned a participating food blogger to make a recipe from. As it’s a secret, all posts are published at the same time from each group of bloggers. I was given Jennifer Sikora’s blog For Such A Time As This as my secret blog. Jennifer has been blogging since 2007. She is a baker, loves to shop and is a dog mom – sounds like we have a few things in common. I chose Jennifer’s recipe for Herb Crusted Pork Loin as the dish I would prepare. Below you will find my adaption of the recipe. This was made necessary as I could not find untrimmed pork loin and so bought a pork belly roast to cook. As the weight of my roast was exactly half that of the one given my Jennifer I halved her rub. You could smell the garlic cooking, and the meat tasted great. What a great way to try something new!
Herb Crusted Pork Belly
Ingredients
- 1 kg pork belly roast
- 7.5 mls salt flakes
- 15 mls olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- 2.5 mls dried thyme
- 2.5 mls dried basil
- 2.5 mls dried rosemary
Method
- take the roast out of the fridge at allow to dry on a rack for at least 2 hours
- preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- pat the pork dry
- combine the salt, oil, garlic and herbs in a bowl
- massage the mixture onto the pork with your fingers, ensuring you cover the meat and the fat
- place the pork on a rack in a roasting pan
- roast for 30 minutes per 500g of meat, plus an additional 25 minutes
- allow to rest for 10 minutes – we did this under the grill to crisp up the fat to make crackling
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YUMMY!!! I’m hungry………must go check out this secret society 🙂 xx
hope you join in!
Looks great! I’ve done much similar with Joostenberg’s deboned pork shoulder, Christophe de Hosse’s favorite cut. The bellies I buy, Goes to making Rick Stein’s chinese five-spice rubbed roast belly, with pak choi
I love the idea of the Chinese five spice powder – we should go to Joostenberg more often 🙂
The secret recipe club sounds like fun and you definitely chose a winner to try out. Great photo Tandy.
Have a happy afternoon.
🙂 Mandy
thanks so much Mandy 🙂
Clubs, secrets and recipes…sounds like a grown up Enid Blyton story – how fabulous! We can get loin of pork here easily so this one is going on my “to do” list. But don´t tell anyone ´cos it´s a secret 🙂
Please let me know how it works out! Have a super day 🙂
I have pork belly in my freezer and have been debating what to do with it…now I know. If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my Group ‘A” ~ SRC recipe this month: Cilantro Lime Chicken
Lisa~~
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HI Lisa, for sure I will check out your blog post! Please give this recipe a try as it was really tasty 🙂 Thanks for the visit!
I’ve never roasted a pork belly before – yours looks excellent. It must’ve tasted great. I like how you crisped the outside on the grill as well.
The crispy skin makes all the difference! thanks for the visit 🙂
Oh, I have pizza on the menu for tonight, but after seeing this roast my plans are changing! What a great combination of spices.
they really worked well! Thanks for the visit 🙂
Love pork at the moment, maybe it is because lambs is so expensive. Love the herby crust!
this herby crust was really awesome! Lamb has got very expensive indeed 🙂
Wow,Tandy – this looks delicious!!! I love this idea of the secret recipe!!! Wonderful!
Hope you join in for next month!
What a cool idea. Looks so crisp and delicious too Tands
thanks Ishay – it is a great idea 🙂
So, So, So yummy!
I adore herb crusted pork! I have a hard time finding pork roasts and bellies around here.
thanks so much Rachel – we get very few cuts of meat where I live, but thankfully belly roasts are one of them 🙂
Tandy, this pork belly looks delicious with all the herbs and garlic…what a nice feast!
Hope you have a wonderful week ahead 🙂
Thanks Juliana – it was a great meal. Have a super week 🙂
Yum! This looks great, love a good pork roast!
thank you Rachel 🙂
Tandy, yum!! We’ve found a place to buy really good free-range pork loin roasts, and this sounds like the perfect way to cook them! Thank you! 🙂
please let me know if you try this 🙂
How intriguing ; -)
Looks and sounds delicious!
it was great fun and the added bonus was the meal was great!
What a wonderful idea: The Secret Recipe Club…you find so many new and exciting link up ideas …and this one sounds like alot of fun. Your recipe turned out wonderful!
thanks Yvette – it is a great idea!
Mmm pork belly… the best meat ever! I bet this was delicious!
it really was! Thanks for the visit 🙂
This looks amazing!
thanks JamieAnne – and it was easy to do 🙂
Looks amazing!
Thanks again for being a part of SRC and being a part of my first group, I enjoyed being your host! Now, I get to visit everyone’s blog, THIS IS THE FUN PART!
If you haven’t already, come check out my Secret Recipe Club Post: Cucumber Salad http://momscrazycooking.blogspot.com/2011/08/cucumber-salad-secret-recipe-club.html
or my second post for the SRC Raspberry and Nutella Pizza
http://momscrazycooking.blogspot.com/2011/08/raspberry-nutella-pizza-secret-recipe.html
thanks so much Tina – I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to next month 🙂
Wow! I could not even guess about it)) Not bad.
I’ve never had pork belly before. Looks amazing!
Thank you so much, it is my favourite cut of pork to roast 🙂
This looks so yummy! Great pick for the SRC!!
thanks so much Andrea 🙂
This looks great! I’m always looking for new pork recipes so thanks for sharing!
thanks, and thanks for visiting 🙂
Yum! Looks great! SCR is turning out to be lots of fun — so many new recipes to try!
thanks, it is a great way to meet new bloggers 🙂