Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pork belly tacos. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pork belly tacos is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pork belly tacos is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Fill each tortilla with a slice or two of pork belly and top with pickled slaw. Read recipe notes submitted by our community or add your own notes. For the tacos: Serve the pork with warm tortillas, cilantro and lime wedges for building tacos.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have pork belly tacos using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pork belly tacos:
- Make ready 4 lb pork belly
- Make ready Olive oil
- Prepare Dry rub with low sugar
- Prepare Corn tortillas
- Make ready Flour tortillas
- Make ready Additional topping options
- Make ready Shredded cabbage for crunch
- Get Fresh salsa
- Make ready Mexican cojita cheese crumbles
- Make ready Diced onions
- Get Cilantro
- Make ready Limes
- Make ready Tomatoes
You are going to fall in love at first bite. This pork belly taco recipe is perfect for any time of year! These pork belly tacos have a South American Flair and are amazing served with Chimichurri sauce. Make you own Chimichurri sauce, or buy it HERE. (affiliate link) Orange juice, cumin, lime and chipotle peppers are used to season the pork while it cooks in the Instant Pot.
Instructions to make Pork belly tacos:
- Remove pork belly from packaging and rinse with cold tap water. Pat dry and set on a cookie sheet.
- Slice top side of skin into 1.5 to 2 in squares just deep enough to get to the fat layer.
- Rub entire belly with olive oil.
- 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.
- Cook @325 for 3.5 hours. Then last 20 minutes broil on low to get a crispy layer.
- 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.
- The risk of over cooking is lower since it is a high fat content cut.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Pork belly is a cut of meat from the belly of the big. Mix cabbage, salsa and cumin together, set aside. Remove from microwave and set aside to cool slightly. But now tacos represent endless meal opportunities, tortillas just waiting to be filled with: shrimp (in our favorite Shrimp Tacos), slow cooker pulled chicken, roasted vegetables, Pork Carnitas, Carne Asada and, now, pork belly! And it's not just about the base filling, but getting creative with toppings.
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