Servings: 4 Total Time: 50 mins Difficulty: Intermediate
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Tender, flame-grilled pork belly, topped with melty cheese and a refreshing secret sauce. Known as matambre de cerdo in Argentina, the fat on the pork belly needs to be trimmed aggressively before cooking.
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Difficulty: Intermediate Prep Time 20 mins Cook Time 30 mins Total Time 50 mins
Servings: 4
Best Season: Suitable throughout the year

Ingredients

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Pork belly

Secret sauce

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Instructions

  1. Prepare a large grill plate over an open flame, or a barbecue.  Heat to medium-high heat.

  2. Cut the top off the garlic bulb.  Place on a large piece of foil.  Sprinkle with paprika and salt.  Drizzle with olive oil. Wrap garlic in foil into a large cone shape and put on the charcoal. Cook for 20 minutes. Remove from heat. This can be cooking at the same time as the pork and will be used in the secret sauce. 

  3. For the pork belly, salt both sides of the pork.   Place the leaner side on the fire for 15 to 20 minutes.  Then flip over and cook the other side for 5 minutes.

  4. Leaving the meat on the grill, drizzle tomato sauce over the pork. Top with slices of mozzarella cheese, then grated parmesan.  Add a few toothpicks, this will prevent the foil from sticking to the cheese, and cover with foil. Leave until the cheese is melted.

  5. Remove the pork belly from the grill.  Remove the toothpicks and allow to rest for 2 minutes.  Spread the secret sauce over the pork belly. Cut into pieces to serve.

  6. For the secret sauce, squeeze the cloves from the roasted garlic into a pestle.  Dice the sweet green chilli and the sun-dried tomatoes. Add to the pestle.  Add the paprika and olive oil and squeeze down to make a chunky sauce, adding extra oil if too thick.

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