Inihaw na Liempo or Filipino grilled Pork Belly

I should have made this recipe when it was outside BBQ time. But at -3 C and snowfall starting the electric grill - no chance in hell - I had to use my heavy duty Le Creuset grill pan.

It worked beautifully, but splattered everything including my glasses. Cleaning the kitchen and the pan will take some time.

But it was worth it.

I started my morning with the prepwork. Marinating the pork belly for 4 hours. It is not the first time I had to use some kind of lemon soda as a base. Sprite was the one in the recipe from "Manilaspoon", but any other is fine too.

Adding lots of garlic cloves and covering it up to rest outside on the balcony until it was time to cook it. I call that my EUROFRIDGE method.

As a vegetable I prepped a leek and cut it in strips to sautee in a pan. Just seasoned with salt and pepper and a dash of Noilly Prat.

Marinate:

1 cup Lemon Soda or Sprite

1/4 cup light soy sauce

1 tbsp Worchester sauce

1/2 head garlic

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp sugar

Fresh ground pepper

Baste:

Banana Ketchup 

1 tbsp brown sugar

1 tsp oil

Ingredients:

Jasmin rice

Vegetable of choice