Beer belly or Pork belley???

It's only Mid Sept, but chitown is already getting windy again....o summer why are you leaving so early?Please stay for 1 more month.... But one good thing about mid Sept is - Oktoberfest ale comes out on the shelf again!ummmm hahahah evil wilson says "beer = good". So anyways, Pork belly and Oktoberfest?? How can you say no to them? It's like a match from heaven, just like adam and eve, Ari and Lloyd, Asian and rice. they meant to be with each other >_- anyways here's today's dish-

Oktoberfest braised pork belly
ingredients

• DA MEAT
  
  • Pork belly
    
  • salt
    
  • freshly grind black pepper
    
  • paprika
    
  • cayenne pepper
  
  
• Da sauce
  
  • half bottle of Oktoberfest(don' waste the beer, drink the other half yourself)
    
  • 1/4 cup of soy sauce
    
  • 1/2 tps of Brown sugar
    
  • 1 tps of honey
    
  • shallots chopped
    
  • 2 carrots chopped
    
  • ginger(cut into thin slices, about 2-3 pcs)
    
  • 2 clove of garlic(cut into 1/4, so about 8 pcs)

STEP 1 - Mclovin the pork belly

Cross cut square on the surface of the skin first, then rub the seasoning evenly on the meat. Let the meat sit aside for an hr.
Sear the pork belly(skin face down) till it look turn brown and crispy looking. for those who have a small kitchen or studio apt, MAKE SURE YOU OPEN THE WINDOW or TURN THE FAN ON!!but on the other hand if you want to smell like bacon and grease, be my guest and leave the window close....



STEP 1.5 - You can do 2 things at once

While searing the pork belly, bring a sauce pan on the burner, add bit butter and saute the shallots for 3 mins. Add the carrots and brown sugar into the sauce pan, mix the vegetables and sugar for another 3 mins. Add the ale, soy sauce, honey, ginger and garlic, turn the burner to low, and cover the lid up, let it sit till the sauce starts to boil.

step 2- I have no idea

Pre-heat the oven @ 275f. Pour the sauce in to the pork belly(the skin side face up) or vice versa. Cover the top with Tin-foil, and put it in to the oven for 2 hrs. Make sure your cookware can take high heat. Melting plastic does not go well with pork belly......
PS: While the pork belly in the oven, make sure you take it out every 30 mins, and glaze the meat with the sauce, so the meat won't be too dry after the cooking.

step 3 - I'm bit lazy to type out how to garnish


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