Crispy Pork Belly with Watermelon Pickle

[toxcrusadr]

Saw this on the Food Network, favorite dish at a place called the Fatty Crab in NY or somewhere. Crispy Pork Belly with Watermelon Pickles. Take a whole pork belly - basically a giant slab of fat with the skin on - marinate in 4 kinds of soy sauce for 2 days, braise, cut in cubes and deep fry. Serve with fresh watermelon cubes and pickled watermelon rind. Basically big chunks of deep fried pork fat. Fatty crab, my @$$, how about Fatty @$$!

 

[onepixel]

:drool:

 

[toxcrusadr]

Not that I'm a bacon hater or anything.

 

[mfhale]

Anti-porkite

I could do without the soy sauce marinade, but it looks dandy to me.

 

[toxcrusadr]

A nice piece of bacon is one thing, but that's a cubic inch or two of fat that's only crispy on the outside. Blech.

 

[mfhale]

Not hearing any downside so far.

 

[doucanoe]

Not hearing any downside so far.

Me either.



RC

 

[toxcrusadr]

It's a free country so more power to ya. I just like my bacon crispy all the way through.

 

[doucanoe]

It's a free country so more power to ya. I just like my bacon crispy all the way through.

I'll take a plate of that also

RC

 

[jimfet]

It's the pickled watermelon that's grossing me out.

 

[Rob Babcock]

That doesn't look like watermelon rind to me- it looks like the flesh of the fruit. I've got a gallon of watermelon pickles that my mom made sitting in the fridge right now, and they don't look like that!:scratch2:

 

[toxcrusadr]

The big red cubes are indeed fresh watermelon. The small greenish ones scattered about are the pickled rinds. My granny used to make sweet watermelon pickles, with a lot of sugar, cinnamon and cloves. I can't reproduce the texture, I think she used some kind of toxic chemical no longer available. Anyway they were golden brownish, not fresh and greenish like these.

 

[Jailtime]

Damn that looks good. :drool: As long as that pork is crispy all the way. I hate floppy bacon.