Belly Pork with Crackling for 8

Rescaled from 4 servings.

Extremely jucy with extremely crackly crackling on the meat

preheat oven to 175degC bake 40mins set oven to 240degC and remove meat until at temp remove salt crust bake 30mins or until crackling crispy sit for a few mins make gravy with dripping
600g
  • 3⁄5kg
  • 1.32lb
  • 21.2oz
 salt 		cover skin evenly
fill baking tray with 1inch water place wire rack above water line place meat skin up on rack
1800g
  • 1 4⁄5kg
  • 3.97lb
  • 63.5oz
 belly pork joint 		pat skin dry with paper towel place in bowel or tin slightly larger than meat fill but don't get skin wet place in fridge uncovered overnight
120ml
  • 0.12l
  • 8tbsp
  • 24tsp
  • 0.507cup
  • 0.211pint
 light soy sauce 		mix
160ml
  • 0.16l
  • 10 2⁄3tbsp
  • 32tsp
  • 0.676cup
  • 0.282pint
 rice wine
4tbsp
  • 0.06l
  • 60ml
  • 12tsp
  • 0.254cup
  • 0.106pint
 brown sugar
4 cloves garlic finely chopped