How To Cook Pork Belly In Pizza Oven
Place pork in a baking tray and cook in your wildcat wood fired oven at 250oc for an hour.
How to cook pork belly in pizza oven. Cover dish with foil. Rest pork uncovered for 15 minutes. Remove the pork from the oven and increase the oven temperature to 220 c 425 f.
Baste a couple of times during this hour. Place the pork skin side down on an oven tray and roast for 1 hour 30 minutes. Bake at 300 f until tender about 4 hours for a 3 pound piece.
Working quickly arrange the onion and lemon on the oven tray next to the pork. Fill baking dish with enough melted pork fat or lard to cover the pork belly by inch. Turn the oven down to 180 c and cook for 25 minutes.
Allow oven to cool by opening oven door until it is at 190oc and then cook for another 1 2 hours. Score the pork rind at 2cm intervals rub with olive oil and the remaining salt. Place pork belly skin side down in a large baking dish.
Roast pork for 45 minutes or until skin is blistered and golden. Place the roast on a wire rack inside a baking tray and cook at 240 c max 250 c conventional until the rind crackles up to 50 minutes.