Recipe courtesy of Brad Farmerie
Homemade Streaky Ham with Pickled Lime Mustard and Fig Jam
- Level: Intermediate
- Total: 169 hr 45 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Inactive: 168 hr
- Cook: 1 hr 30 min
Ingredients
The Cure:
12 1/3 tablespoons kosher salt
5 tablespoons muscovado sugar
5 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons pink salt
4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper (in a mortar and pestle)
2 teaspoons herbs d'Provence
1 teaspoon ground juniper berries (in a mortar and pestle)
1 teaspoon dried lavender
3 1/2 teaspoons honey
1 ounce or 2 tablespoons gin
2 pound pork belly, nicely squared off
To Serve:
Sea salt, to taste (recommended: Maldon Sea Salt)
Pickled Mustard Seeds, recipe follows
Mustard oil, to taste
Pea shoot tendrils, for garnish
Mustard fruits
Serving suggestion: Pair with a good negroni.
Pickled Mustard Seeds:
1 tablespoon mustard seeds
3 tablespoons gin
Directions
Special equipment:
Mortar and pestle Apple wood, as needed Smoker- In a medium bowl, combine the salt, muscovado sugar, sugar, pink salt, black pepper, herbs d'Provence, juniper berries, and lavender and mix together well. In a separate smaller bowl, mix the honey and gin together. Brush this honey-gin mixture on all sides of the pork belly. Roll the belly in the cure mix and place in a plastic container and put in the refrigerator. Flip the meat every day for the next seven days to ensure that it cures evenly.
- Once ready to cook preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
- Heat the apple wood and place in a smoker. Add the pork belly and smoke for about 20 minutes. Place the cured pork belly on a baking rack (or wire rack) set above a pan of water and cover the pan and the meat with aluminum foil. Place the covered meat in the oven and cook for about 1 hour, or until a thermometer inserted into the meat reads 155 degrees F. Once cooked, remove the meat from the oven and put in refrigerator to cool completely.
Pickled Mustard Seeds:
- In a small sauce pan, combine the mustard seeds and gin and bring to a boil. Remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool.
- Cook Time: 5 to 10 minutes
- Ease of preparation: Easy
