I have a long tradition with the Superbowl, and most of them I even remember past the 3rd quarter.
Now let me just say, in my defense, those memories usually depended upon which team I picked to win. And sometimes I wasn’t such a good picker.
Back in the day when my friends and I still thought we could hang like we did in college, if your chosen team was scored upon in any which way, it was a side game bet for our fellow party goers to see just how easily us losers could traverse crawling OUT the living room window, dropping DOWN to the driveway and partaking of a penalty shot. Oh. How. Dumb. In. Our. Youth. Yet another reason I’m thankful my twenties are in my rear view mirror.
This year, given my beloved 49ers are out of the running, it REALLY, really, really is all about the food: making, eating and grazing again.
He’s a good cook that boy.
Pork Belly Sliders. Perfect for a crowd, easy to assemble and tangily tastily delicious. Take that Tom Brady.
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Pork Belly Sliders
Ingredients
For the Slow Roasted Pork Belly
- 5 pounds pork belly
- kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper
For the Asian Slaw
- 2 carrots peeled and julienned
- ½ English cucumber seeded and julienned
- ½ Fuji apple julienned
- ½ red onion thinly sliced
- ¼ cup cilantro
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- ¼ cup mirin
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
- pinch or more of red pepper flakes to taste for spicy heat
For the Chipotle Mayonnaise
- ⅓ cup mayonnaise
- 1 medium canned chipotle pepper in adobo sauce finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon adobo sauce
To assemble Sandwiches
- dozen slider buns or dinner rolls
- arugula
Instructions
For the Slow Roasted Pork Belly
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Remove skin from the piece of meat. Score the fat cap in criss cross sections through the fat but not into the meat itself. Generously coat with salt and pepper, rubbing into the criss cross sections and on all sides of the meat.
- Place in a roasting pan fat side up and roast in oven for 3 hours. After 3 hours, increase heat to 400 degrees and bake for another half an hour basting every 10 minutes until crunchy on top.
- Remove from oven and let cool. You can make this ahead of time and put in refrigerator until ready to make sandwiches.
For the Asian Slaw
- Combine all ingredients. Put in refrigerator to chill for an hour or longer for flavors to blend.
For the Chipotle Mayonnaise
- Combine ingredients. Chill in refrigerator until ready to assemble sandwiches.
To assemble Sandwiches
- Slice pork belly into ¼" slices. If pork has been reserved in refrigerator, reheat slices in fry pan.
- Slice slider buns in half, slather sides with chipotle mayonnaise.
- Layer arugula, two pork belly slices and a heaping of Asian slaw mixture. Top with bun and serve.
Nutrition
Let’s not go getting all stuffed with big portions okay? Here’s a few slider ideas to keep your appetite at optimum grazing levels.
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I don’t eat meat but my family does…some great looking sliders here!
These look to.die.for!!!! holy cow!
Those pork belly sliders sound really good!
Ok, first of all, those pork belly sliders are giving me a serious craving late at night !! All of these look delicious – I want them all for the big game!
Superbowl or not i can have any of these sliders any day – wow what a spread!
I need those pork belly sliders, like REALLY REALLY need those sliders right now. They just look like the perfect combo of textures and flavors.
If you like salty with sour and a hit of spicey, this is your recipe.
My beloved team is also out of the running (Houston texans) so I plan to eat my pain away. These sliders would go great at our Sbowl party -one of each please, lol!!
Your intro made me smile. I have a soft spot for silly drinking games. Maybe it’s because I’m in my 20s. My favorite? Drinking to R. Kelly’s hiphopera. Omg Heidi, it’s hilarious.
Can’t wait for us to meet in person to roll that one out, I have a feeling I’ll lose #productofthe80s
Oh my gosh look at all these scrumptious sliders. In the words of my favorite meme, Want all the sliders! Yum!
Thank you! I’ve become pretty partial to the little dudes.
That is some serious Super Bowl grub! Very nice!
I should have included a veg version for you and Averie, bad mom!
Pork belly and I have a bit of history if you know what I mean. I can’t get enough and I keep going back. And that BLT slider? Um, yeah. I don’t even know where to begin with that one.
Pork pot pork. Pigging out on pork. Kinda a Superbowl theme right?
Thank you for giving me a reason to buy the pork belly I eye up every time I pass it at the market. I can’t wait to try this one!
We can only find pork belly at the Asian market. Where do you find yours?
Oh yum! This all looks amazing and that Chipotle Mayo sounds divine! Can’t wait to try it!:)
The chipotle mayo is good indeed, and if you’d like, siracha is a fine substitute.
YUM!!!! it’s so hard to choose which one!!! I’ll have to try a few :)
Will you invite me over when you try the sliders out? ;)
wow ! You go girl! Just tweeted and pinned
Thank you Alison for all of you SM work :)
I want every single slider to slide down my throat this instant before I have a conniption.
A conniption–thats totally my mom’s saying!
These would be perfect for any kind of party, I love the flavours of that crispy slaw and the spicy mayonnaise.
The slaw is sooo good, my husband has an obsession with adding Fuji apples to everything.
I don’t eat meat, don’t like it, and it takes a lot for me to be impressed by meat-based photography…but you did it. Gorgeous pics!
Have a great Superbowl!