Dry-Roast Pork Belly with Roasted Apples - Tom Aikens

Ingredients

• 1 pork belly (whole or in large pieces), skin scored with slashes
• 4 garlic cloves, bashed
• Few sprigs of rosemary
• Few sprigs of thyme
• ½ tsp crushed black pepper
• 4 tbsp coarse sea salt or Maldon
• Olive oil (for rubbing)
• 6 Granny Smith or Braeburn apples, halved horizontally (through the equator)
• 80g demerara sugar
• 2g Maldon salt
• Pinch of crushed black pepper
• 50g diced butter
• 30ml white wine vinegar