Pork belly is cooked and tenderized in a white wine broth, then drenched in Hibiscus Mole flavoured with ancho, pasilla, and morita chilies, sweetened with prunes, raisins, apple, and plantain.
Submitted via Vitamix: Eduardo Morali
Makes: 4 servings
Total Time: 12 Hours
Difficulty: Advanced
Pork Belly Tacos
Ingredients
- 900 g (2 pounds) pork belly
- 120 ml (½ cup) white wine
- 960 ml (4 cups) chicken stock
- ½ onion, peeled, diced
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 Tablespoon whole black peppercorns
- 55 g (½ cup) celery, diced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 20 g (½ cup) fresh coriander leaves, chopped
- hibiscus mole, see recipe
- 4 tortillas
- fresh coriander leaves, for garnish
- crushed peanuts, for garnish
- jicama, julienned, for garnish
Directions
- Preheat oven to 90°C (200°F).
- In a dutch oven, sear pork belly on both sides.
- Add white wine, chicken stock, onion, garlic, bay leaf, peppercorn, celery, salt, and cilantro to the pot and bring to a boil.
- Cover and cook in preheated oven for 8 hours.
- Remove pork belly from broth and cool in refrigerator.
- Heat a sauté pan and sear pork belly on all sides until golden brown. Pour mole sauce over top and heat through.
- To serve, top tortillas with pork belly and sauce. Garnish with cilantro, peanuts, and jicama.
Hibiscus Mole
Ingredients
- 100 g (½ cup) lard
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 shallots
- ½ onion, peeled, diced
- ½ golden delicious apple
- 100 g dried prunes
- 50 g (⅓ cup) raisins
- 100 g (¾ cup) almonds
- ½ plantain
- 1 corn tortilla
- 8 dry ancho chillies
- 8 dry pasilla chillies, cleaned, deveined, and toasted
- 1 dry morita chile, cleaned and toasted
- 35 g (⅓ cup) sesame seeds, toasted
- 75 g (¾ cup) peanuts, toasted
- 50 g hibiscus, dried
- ¼ teaspoon anise seed, toasted
- 960 ml (4 cups) water
Directions
- Place lard into a medium saucepan and heat. Fry each of the following ingredients individually and set aside to cool: garlic, shallots, onion, apple, prunes, raisins, almonds, plantain, and corn tortilla.
- Place all ingredients into the Vitamix container in the order listed and secure lid.
- Select Variable 1.
- Switch machine to start and slowly increase speed to Variable 10, then to High.
- Blend for 1 minute.
- Pour sauce into a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and allow to simmer for 30 minutes.
