Pork belly
Pork belly is a cut of pork with fat, muscle, and skin. When cooked, it can be tender and crisp. Cooks braise, roast, grill, or deep-fry it and pair it with garlic or lettuce.
- Meat
- Gluten-free
- No listed allergens
- Pork
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Meat & poultry
- Part used
- Fat, muscle, skin
- Texture
- Crisp, tender
- Cooked most in
- The Americas, Europe
- Top country
- Finland
- Dishes
- 3 in the catalogue
- Energy
- 380 kcal per 100 g
Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use pork belly
Typical ways to cook or use it
- Boil simmer
- Braise
- Deep fry
- Grill
- Marinade
- Roast
Preparing it
It can be prepared with or without the skin. For braising, it can be diced with the skin left on. For Filipino-style grilling, marinate it with garlic, vinegar, salt and pepper.
Cooking with it
A moderate oven and a long roast help tenderize the meat. A period of high heat at either end of roasting hardens the rind into crackling.
Flavour
Taste and texture
Texture, cooked
- Crisp
- Tender
Nutrition
What 100 g of pork belly holds
Protein 30%Fat 70%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight
| Energy | 380 kcal · 2,167 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 15 g |
| Fat | 36 g |
| of which saturated | 19 g |
| of which sugars | 0 g |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Sodium | 50 mg |
| Cholesterol | 67 mg |
| Potassium | 208 mg |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 4.2 mg |
| Iron | 0.38 mg |
| Magnesium | 12 mg |
| Zinc | 1.1 mg |
| Vitamin C | 0.3 mg |
| Vitamin A (RAE) | 3 µg |
| Folate | 1 µg |
| Vitamin B12 | 0.84 µg |
Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 167812, 2727576), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.
Around the world
Where pork belly is cooked
Dishes by continent
Countries whose dishes use it most
Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list pork belly among their ingredients.
On the table
Dishes made with pork belly
Schläsches Himmelreich
Kalakukko
Finland
Grilled Kurobuta Pork Belly at Other Mama
United States
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pork belly.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: pork belly in detail
- Allergens
- None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
- Animal origin
- From: meatChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
- Gluten
- None
- Alcohol
- None
- Caffeine
- None
- Pork
- Contains
Family
Related forms
Around the world
What pork belly is called
Spanish
panza de cerdo
French
ventre de porc
German
Schweinebauch · Schälrippe · Leiterchen · Bauchspeck
Dutch
buikspek
Turkish
Domuz göbeği
Russian
пашина
Polish
boczek
Chinese
豬腩 · 五花肉 · 五花腩 · 豬腩肉
Japanese
豚バラ肉 · 豚ばら肉 · 豚ヒレ肉
Korean
삼겹살 · 세겹살
Vietnamese
Thịt ba chỉ
Indonesian
Samcan
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Cantonese
豬腩肉
Catalan
cansalada de porc
Danish
Slag · Slag (kødstykke)
Esperanto
porkventraĵo
Filipino
Liyempo
Finnish
porsaankylki
Hungarian
császárszalonna
Javanese
Weteng babi
Manchu
ᠯᠠᡥᠠᡨᠠ ᠶᠠᠯᡳ
Min Nan Chinese
Sam-chân-ba̍h
Min Nan Chinese (Traditional)
三層肉
Norwegian Bokmål
svineribbe
Simplified Chinese
猪腩
Slovenian
svinjska potrebuševina · svinjska potrebušina · svinjski trebuh
Swedish
sidfläsk · grissida
Traditional Chinese
豬腩 · 五花肉
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
豬腩
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
五花肉
Wu Chinese
五花肉
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikidata item: Q1365868
Photos
Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons