Sweet and Sour Pork With Davidson’s Plum Recipe

Ingredients

• 450 gm piece of boneless pork belly, skin on, at room temperature
• 220 gm firmly packed brown sugar (1 cup)
• 150 gm frozen Davidson's plums, defrosted, halved, seeds removed (see note)
• Juice of 2 lemons, or to taste
• 2 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• Ground Sichuan peppercorns, to serve
• Red-braised master stock
• 375 ml light soy sauce (1½ cups)
• 80 gm ginger, thickly sliced
• 6 garlic cloves, bruised
• 4 spring onions, trimmed and halved
• 4 pieces of orange rind, removed with a peeler, pith removed
• 8 star anise
• 4 cinnamon quills
• 1 tsp sesame oil