Name: Boneless Lechon Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 180 min
Total time: 190 min
Ingredients: 1 Cup Salt; 1/4 Cup sugar; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper (coarsely ground); 4 cups cold water (divided); 1 2 2/3 kilo whole pork belly (bones removed); lechon sauce (to serve)

This brined and baked pork belly is moist, and since it’s boneless, is easier to eat. Look at that crispy skin, too!

Boneless Lechon Recipe

Roselle Miranda

Make this lechon recipe for special weekend treats. It's skin is ultra crispy!

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 3

Resting Time 30

Total Time 3 10

Course Main Dishes

Cuisine Filipino

Servings

Ingredients

Boneless Lechon Ingredients

1 Cup Salt
1/4 Cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground black pepper coarsely ground
4 cups cold water divided
1 2 2/3 kilo whole pork belly bones removed
lechon sauce to serve

Instructions

In a saucepan over medium heat, add salt, sugar, pepper, to 1 cup water. Stir to dissolve the salt and sugar. Once dissolved, remove from heat and pour into a container (with a lid) that can hold the pork belly. Add remaining cold water. Set aside to cool completely.
Once cooled, place pork belly into the brine, ensuring that it’s fully submerged. Cover and refrigerate at least 24 hours, up to 72 hours (3 days).
Preheat oven to 350?F.
Remove pork from brine, and place on a roasting pan. Bake in the middle rack of the oven for 3 hours or until the skin is crispy and the meat browned.
Remove from oven, and let rest 10 minutes before carving with a sharp knife. Serve while hot with lechon sauce on the side, if desired. Recipe orginally published in the December 2015 issue of Good Housekeeping Philippines