Thai Style Roasted Pork

Ingredients:

• 200 g pork belly
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Chinese five spice powder
• 1 tsp basil flakes
• 6 fresh lime leaves
• 1 red chili-pepper (deseed, devein and chopped)
• 2 shallots (thinly sliced)
• 1 tbsp minced garlic

Sauce:

• 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
• 1 tbsp Indonesian sweet soy sauce
• a dash of white ground pepper

How to:

• pierce the pork-belly skin with knife thoroughly
• rub the pork-belly with salt and five spice powder
• set your oven to 180 degree celcius and grill the pork-belly for 30 minutes
• warm your frying pan for 1 minute. Pan-fry the pork belly with skin below (without any additional oil) to make the skin crispier for about 3 minutes
• cut the pork-belly into bites. Return them to the frying pan. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir-fry till fragrant
• add in the sauce and mix well
• serve for 2