Homemade pork scratchings
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + overnight
- Serves 6 as a snack
Ingredients
- 200g piece pork belly skin, scored (ask your butcher)
- table salt
- 2 tsp white wine vinegar
- to serve sea salt, paprika or celery salt
Method
- STEP 1
Lightly salt the skin then put it on a rack over a dish and leave uncovered in the fridge overnight.
- STEP 2
The next day, wipe the skin with kitchen paper and rub all over with vinegar. Cut into strips.
- STEP 3
Heat the oven to 140C/fan 120C/gas 1. Arrange the pork on a clean rack over a roasting tray. Cook for 1 hour, draining off the fat now and again. Turn the oven up to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6 and keep cooking until golden brown, crisp and starting to bubble. Toss with sea salt and any other seasonings before serving.
