
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.