Omg! Pork belly!

(Pete A) #21

Kroger and it"s excellent

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#22

We don’t have a Kroger but we do have a good Filipino population so can easily get pork belly even in this little village :smile::yum:

(Chris Ward) #23

I made Maria Emmrich’s instant pot pork belly. It was the first time I cooked it that I liked it.

(Bob M) #24

I haven’t been able to figure out how to cook pork belly well. And to be honest, it’s too fatty for me. I know that’s heresy, but there you go.

I personally would rather have ham, even though it’s low in fat, and keep pork belly for those times I want to be overwhelmed with fat. Went to Costco this weekend, bought beef brisket (relatively low fat), shrimp (very low fat), ham (low fat), crab (very low fat), some beef sausages (high fat), and never thought once about pork belly. In fact, the shrimp and crab are to counteract the fattiness of the beef sausages, and are for my lunches.

(Todd Batitis) #25

Welcome to the club. I talk about this in my thread about things you would never eat pre-keto. :smile:

I always hated fat. Trimmed it off my pork chops, ham and steaks. Bacon had to be cooked so the fat was more crisp than rubbery. I couldn’t IMAGINE pork belly. Seriously? You would have to cook it so long to make the fat not gross.

I kept hearing about it on the 2KD podcast though. I kept reading about it being a big thing on Keto. So we picked up a pack at Costco and the wife cooked some. She cubed it up, marinated it in soy sauce and Worcestershire, coated it in Montreal Seasoning Mix and threw it in the toaster oven for 40 minutes at 400F then turned it over and hit another 10 minutes. I came home to a new love! :slight_smile:

We have tried doing it in a crock pot with a little saurkraut we had left over but THAT texture I couldn’t deal with… but take it out and crisp it up in a pan… yum!

I haven’t had any in about a month now but I think it will be time on our next Costco run. And since I have one pack left in the freezer… maybe I know what I am going to eat when the wife is out at her mom’s mid-week :).

(Todd Batitis) #26

If you have a Costco membership you can usually find it there as well. I haven’t looked for it in full slab form but at our Costco’s out here in Seattle we have it where it comes packaged as 8-10 strips for around $25 per package. Think bacon that is roughly 1"x1" in cross section. It doesn’t have that wonderful skin I see on so many full slabs though so I might have to look into finding that and doing one on the grill. :slight_smile:

Can someone help me translate this? It seems to be a language I can’t decipher. :slight_smile:

(Todd Batitis) #27

When I first decided to give it a go we had seen that they had some similar to that at Costco but it was pre-smoked and such but I wasn’t crazy that it was more of a BBQ version. It came pre-packaged as you see below and we tried it. It was basically flavorful bacon that was very thick but still only around 1/2" thick. The big problem for me was that for a serving, 91g, it was 5g of carbs due to the 4g of sugar in the cure. It tasted fine but it was nothing more than bacon with too much sugar used to make it something I would want often.

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(Bunny) #28

That looks so good! Mmmm!

A true LeCheffre!

I have a endless supply of that exact cut of pork belly around the corner at my local farmers market butcher shop along with chicken feets, hearts, livers, kidneys and any other part of an organ meat you can think of…lol

My favorite is tri-tips!

#29

You’ve gotta try the skin :yum:

(Starfox Rose) #30

I think I’m being tempted lol. I didn’t think of it as bacon etc… I’ll give it a go! Next shopping round I’ll get some in

(Edith) #31

Yup, that was me exactly!

(Edith) #32

Did you get Maria Emmerich’s instant pot cookbook? I was considering it, but the reviews weren’t as good a some of her other cookbooks.
If not, was her pork belly recipe online?

(Chris Ward) #33

Right now it’s my main book. I have made more recipes out of this book then any of the others and I have them all.

(Pete A) #34

You lost me at “smoked” :slight_smile: The Kroger version is also fully cooked, tasty, and cheap! I’d prefer (and never have had) fresh, but am glad I can keep it in stock.

(Chris) #35

For kicks, I sliced some PB ~1/2” and grilled like I would pork chops. I thought it was incredible. Held up to a higher cook temp. Was like eating the very best parts of a chop

(Edith) #36

I probably shouldn’t be reading this thread this morning. I’m going for a 24 hour fast day and talk of pork belly is making me salivate.

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#37

Should Piglet be concerned? :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Piglet-surprised

(Edith) #38

Well, not for today. Maybe tomorrow.

(Starfox Rose) #39

I did it… I bought pork belly… And ate it all!!! I looked at it for almost 5 mins, plucked up the courage, then ate the entire lot… What have I been missing…

(Edith) #40

I know! Right? :rofl: