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Korean Grilled Pork Belly cooking process
HAP turned Charim's Korean Grilled Pork Belly recipe into a 31-second cooking video.
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Preheat the pan or grill over high heat for 2 to 3 minutes with no oil, and lay in 400 g pork belly, pressed dry, with space between the pieces. Cook the first side for 4 to 5 minutes without moving it, until deeply golden, then flip only once and give the second side 3 to 4 minutes. Cut it with scissors when the edges are crisp and the center is cooked through.
Quick answer
- Total time
- 30 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 2 servings
- Ingredients
- 8
About this dish
Pork belly goes into a dry pan and cooks in its own fat, turned just once after the first side browns.
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Thin slices of garlic then fry in the rendered fat, and the meat, cut into bites with scissors, is wrapped in lettuce with the garlic, ssamjang (a soybean and chili paste), green onion and chili pepper.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Cut 400 g pork belly into 10 cm lengths, then press the surfaces dry with paper towels.
If the meat is frozen, slice it while semi-thawed so the pieces stay even and cook at the same pace.
- 2
Wash the lettuce leaves and drain them well, then thinly slice 6 garlic cloves.
Cut the green onion and green chili into serving pieces, and set them beside 2 tablespoons ssamjang for wrapping later.
- 3
Preheat a pan, griddle, or grill over high heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
Do not add oil, and leave space between pork pieces so their own fat can render instead of steaming the meat.
- 4
Place the pork belly on the hot surface, then season evenly with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper.
Cook the first side for 4 to 5 minutes without moving it, until deeply golden.
- 5
Flip the pork only once and cook the second side for 3 to 4 minutes.
When the edges are crisp and the center is cooked through, cut the pieces into bite-size portions with scissors.
- 6
Toast the garlic in the rendered pork fat until it turns lightly golden, watching so it does not burn.
Serve immediately with lettuce, pork, garlic, ssamjang, green onion, and green chili for wrapping.
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Variations
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