Nice and Easy Grilled Pork Belly Bites

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What’s a girl (or guy) to do with trimming of pork belly?! Burnt ends, pork belly bits, belly bites, whatever you want to call them, they are amazing!

Our son loves to help with cutting meat, butchering, and even killing pigs as long they’re not his favorite ones. So we harvested a couple of our bigger males this week, and he likes to pull the leaf lard out of the cavity. He said he needed a knife for a bit and ended up getting into the side too far and cutting into the pork belly slab. No problem; pork belly bites are my next favorite thing after the bacon we made with this recipe!

I have pretty simple tastes who it comes to flavoring pork. Feel free to add or omit whatever you like as I know there are so many recipes out there! I tend to leave out the spicy parts but do like smoked paprika.

First thing to do is cube the pork belly into 1.5 inch squares, or whatever makes it square with the thickness that you have. If you are using some scraps that are just too good to grind into sausage then they may not be square. They taste the same!

Look at this beautiful stack of home grown pork!

I mixed all my dry ingredients in a bowl big enough to roll the cubes around in.

After seasoning, one layer spacing across a rack that can go on the grill safely.

After being on the grill for about two hours at 275*. Internal temp of 165*

Transfer to a grill safe dish that has sides so the bbq sauce does not escape. Grill for about 10-15 minutes until the bbq sauce starts to spread and has a nice glaze to it. As you can see, some pieces in the picture are darker than others. My grill, like most, has a couple spots that get hotter than others and I did not rotate the tray during grilling.

So good! Thank you ‘Bacon,’ the pig!