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Sassy Candied Pork Belly Cubes
Kathy Pullin
3 hours
4 hours 30 minutes
475
American
Appetizer
Get ready for a sweet, smoky, melt-in-your-mouth bite with these Sassy Candied Pork Belly Cubes! Slow-smoked, glazed with a bold BBQ sauce and red soda mixture, then caramelized to perfection with a sweet Sassy sugar finish. Grab a toothpick and get ready to be wowed!
Ingredients
Skin off pork belly slab
Sassy BBQ rub
Orange juice
Big Red soda, Cheerwine or Strawberry soda (red soda)
Your favorite bbq sauce (I use Head country spicy)
Raw sugar
Kosher salt
Directions
Take pork belly and cut it into 2 inch strips.
Coat each side of the belly in Sassy bbq rub. Let sit over night or minimum of 2 hours prior to grilling.
Meanwhile mix 1 cup of bbq sauce with 1/4 cup soda and 1/4 orange juice.
Smoke belly fat side up low n slow at 225 for 2 hours. Remove and cut each piece down from 2 inch to one inch then cube in 1 x 1 inch bites.
Place back on grill on a foil sheet. Smoke an additional hour.
After the 3rd hour, every 20 minutes take bbq sauce mixture and brush or squirt of belly. And keep cooking.
After 4 hours total cooking time @225, crank up fire to 300 to carmelize bites. Cook about 15 to 30 minutes. Pull from pit.
Take 2 tablespoons of Sassy and 3 tablespoons of raw sugar, 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, combine and Sprinkle over cooked bites.
Serve with a toothpick and be prepared to be wowed!
TIP: Pork belly will have different types of fat, hard, soft and what I called kernels. They will cook differently. Soft fat might be ready sooner.