Cured Pork Belly With Lentils
Pork belly with lentils is a typical French bistro dish. In principal, it is a mixture of different cuts of pork, usually salt-cured, cooked slowly until "confit" and meltingly tender, served with lentils cooked in stock.
This dish takes a good while to prepare, but it's a real treat! It reheats very well, tasting better each time, so do make plenty in one go.
This dish takes a good while to prepare, but it's a real treat! It reheats very well, tasting better each time, so do make plenty in one go.
48,5394.0/5 for 35 ratings
Grade this recipe: Last modified on: November 15th 2015
For 5 people, you will need:
- 0
½ onion - 1
1 carrot - 2
½ garlic clove - 3
½ Bouquet garni - 4
250 g belly (streaky) bacon - 5
750 g pork shoulder - 6
½ Morteau sausage - 7
750 g knuckle of pork - 8
250 g green lentils - 9
2 tablespoons lard - 10
1 glass dry white wine - 11
salt - 12
pepper - Total weight: 2,570 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 19 min. | 3 hours | 3 hours 19 min. |
At what time?
- When will I finish if I start the recipe at a certain time?
When should I start for the recipe to be ready at a certain time?
Keeping:
Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Prepare the flavourings for the stock:
chop ½ onion, peel 1 carrot and slice into rounds, lightly crush ½ garlic clove.
chop ½ onion, peel 1 carrot and slice into rounds, lightly crush ½ garlic clove.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
For the meat, choose fully cured or lightly salted cuts of pork. The ones you see here are: 250 g belly (streaky) bacon, 750 g pork shoulder, ½ Morteau sausage, 750 g knuckle of pork.
Lightly salted meat only needs to be rinsed. More heavily salted meat should be soaked for 2 hours in cold water, with the water changed twice during that time.
The sausage can be used as it is.
Lightly salted meat only needs to be rinsed. More heavily salted meat should be soaked for 2 hours in cold water, with the water changed twice during that time.
The sausage can be used as it is.
Stage 3 - 2 min.
Put into a large cooking pot: all the meat, onion, carrots, garlic, bouquet garni and a little salt and pepper. Cover with cold water.
Stage 4 - 2 hours
Bring to the boil on high heat, skim off the froth that forms, then leave to cook gently for 2 to 3 hours.
Stage 5
After this, when you take the meat out, you will see that it has become a melt-in-the-mouth "confit".
Stage 6 - 5 min.
Stage 7 - 2 min.
Rinse 250 g green lentils under cold running water in a strainer.
Stage 8 - 5 min.
Take out a good mugful of the meat stock and save for later. Discard the bouquet garni and the garlic, rescue the carrots and set them to one side, then bring the stock back to the boil.
Stage 9 - 20 min.
Tip in the lentils and leave to cook until they are just tender, but still fairly firm (they will finish cooking later with the meat).
Drain the lentils, but save the stock they were cooked in.
Drain the lentils, but save the stock they were cooked in.
Stage 10 - 5 min.
In the big cooking pot, melt 2 tablespoons lard on high heat.
Fry the meat for 2 or 3 minutes until browned all over.
Pour in 1 glass dry white wine and deglaze the bottom of the pan.
Fry the meat for 2 or 3 minutes until browned all over.
Pour in 1 glass dry white wine and deglaze the bottom of the pan.
Stage 11 - 30 min.
Add the lentils, the mugful of stock you saved earlier, and the carrots, then mix.
Cover and leave to simmer gently for about 30 minutes (or longer), but take care not to let the pork belly dry out or stick. If necessary, moisten with a ladleful or more of stock.
Cover and leave to simmer gently for about 30 minutes (or longer), but take care not to let the pork belly dry out or stick. If necessary, moisten with a ladleful or more of stock.
Stage 12
Serve piping hot.
Remarks
If you don't have any Morteau sausage, use any other sausage you like.
There are some, me among them, who like to serve pork belly with a trickle of vinegar.
As I say above, the pork is is even better when reheated but, unfortunately, the lentils turn mushy when overcooked and become less and less presentable.
Keep the remaining stock, with it you can make a tasty 'day after pork belly' soup.
There are some, me among them, who like to serve pork belly with a trickle of vinegar.
As I say above, the pork is is even better when reheated but, unfortunately, the lentils turn mushy when overcooked and become less and less presentable.
Keep the remaining stock, with it you can make a tasty 'day after pork belly' soup.
And to drink?
A red wine from Burdondy for example, possibly a Ladoix "Sur les vris" from Christian Perrin, it is just perfect.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 7,213 Kcal or 30,199 Kj | 368 gr | 135 gr | 578 gr |
| 361 % | 141 % | 13 % | 88 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 281 Kcal or 1,176 Kj | 14 gr | 5 gr | 22 gr |
| 14 % | 6 % | <1 % | 3 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,443 Kcal or 6,042 Kj | 74 gr | 27 gr | 116 gr |
| 72 % | 28 % | 3 % | 18 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 5 people : 14.83 €
- Per person : 2.97 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
Source
Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Pork shoulder: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Express sauerkraut, ... All |
| Belly (streaky) bacon: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Tartiflette, Fried egg in bread, Involtini-Style Filet Mignon , Winemaker's toast, Hamburgers, ... All |
| Green lentils: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Warm lentil salad, Lentil and cold-meat salad, Sausage and lentils "en cocotte", ... All |
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