I’ve seen so many yummy recipes using Pork Belly however it’s one of those things I haven’t had any experience with. I was shopping at Costco recently and came across a package of Pork Belly that was already sliced. It looked almost like bacon but for the fact that it was cut into thick slabs. I wasn’t sure what I could do with it since it was already cut but I thought why not give it a try. One of my favorite pizza’s is a potato leek pizza that I usually make with bacon so I thought I would substitute the pork belly for the bacon and see how that turned out. Pork belly tastes quite different, you don’t get the smoky salty flavors of bacon. But I do think it goes quite well with this particular pizza, the tender chunks of pork belly matched with slices of fried potatoes, sauteed leeks and melted mozzarella make one savory slice of deliciousness.
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