Pork belly with bay, cider & pears recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 1½kg pork belly skin scored
• rapeseed oil for drizzling
• 1 carrot roughly chopped
• 1 celery stick roughly chopped
• 1 white onion or 4 shallots, roughly chopped
• 1 star anise
• 3 bay leaves
• 2 pears cored and quartered
• 200ml dry pear cider
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• roast potatoes and steamed greens, to serve (optional)
• 3 tsp sea salt flakes
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1 tsp white peppercorns