Braised Pork (dongpo)
From Yinhomemade 13 years ago
- 3 hours to make
- Serves 6-7
As The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was commonly very sumptuous and traditionally included chicken, duck, pork, prawns and fish, I decided to try out something more difficult with pork, Dongpo Pork Belly 东坡肉. Read more The dish was regarded as China Hang Zhou (杭州) signature dish, named after their famous scholar Dong Po 东坡 in the Song Dynasty. Check out this post: Dongpo Pork Belly http://bit.ly/hKIMQB See less
Ingredients
- INGREDIENTS: shopping list
- 600g pork belly shopping list
- 1 tbsp light soya sauce shopping list
- 3 cup of cooking oil (for deep frying) shopping list
- 2 stalks spring onion shopping list
- 5 slices ginger shopping list
- 1 star anise shopping list
- 300ml water shopping list
- SEASONING: shopping list
- 5 tbsp light soya sauce shopping list
- 100ml of Chinese cooking wine ( shaoxing wine) shopping list
- - You can add more if you like the wine taste, else can also replace with water or chicken stock. shopping list
- 3 tbsp of sugar shopping list
- 1tbsp corn flour water for thickening shopping list
- Garnishing: shopping list
- Few stalks of blenched green vegetables/Xiao Bai cai shopping list
- (When blench add 1 tbsp oil and pinch of salt to the boiling water, makes vegetables looks vibrant green) shopping list
How to make it
- Blanch pork belly in boiling water until half cooked. Dish and drain.
- Rub all over with 1 tbsp of light soya sauce and marinate for 10 minutes.
- Deep fry in hot oil with skin face down until golden brown, dish and cool.
- Arrange pork belly in a steaming bowl and pour remaining ingredients and seasoning into it.
- Seal well with heat proof plastic wrapper and steam at high heat for 3 hours or until pork is tender.
- Remove and leave to cool before cutting into slices.
- Arrange vegetables onto a serving plate and top with sliced Dongpo pork.
- Reheat the gravy and thicken with corn flour water. Pour over pork belly and serve hot.
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