Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, braised red pork belly. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red braised pork belly or hong shao rou is a classic pork dish from mainland China, red cooked using pork belly and a combination of ginger, garlic, aromatic spices, chilli peppers, sugar, star anise, light and dark soy sauce, and rice wine. Red braised pork belly is a very classic, famous dish in China. When choosing the pork belly, it should have even layers of fat and meat.
Braised Red Pork Belly is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Braised Red Pork Belly is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook braised red pork belly using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Braised Red Pork Belly:
- Prepare 1 kg pork belly
- Get 1 star anise
- Make ready slices Garlic and ginger
- Get Half Tangerine peel
- Take to taste:
- Take rock sugar
- Make ready light soy sauce
- Prepare dark soy sauce
Soy sauce vs. no soy sauce; more aromatics vs. less aromatics. This traditional braised pork belly dish is a crowd-pleaser for any special occasion. This is a part of our Chinese New Year menu with chef Simone Tong. Using a slotted spoon, transfer pork to a plate; remove pot from heat.
Instructions to make Braised Red Pork Belly:
- Add water and put pork belly and boil for 5 mins. After that, remove and rinse in water then slice into big cubes.
- Heat wok add oil and saute garlic ginger star anise tangerine peel, lastly add pork.
- Pour 1 cup of water, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and simmer for 30.mins.
- When the sauce has almost dried out, add the caramelized rock sugar and turn the fire into low. Cook until sauce thickens and it coated the pork. Remove.
Let sauce cooking liquid cool slightly so rendered fat can rise to the surface. Red braised pork belly or Red-cooked pork belly (红烧肉)is one of the most famous Classic Chinese dishes. By mention it, what will you think about? The heavy and savory taste or the brightly red color? For me the most attracting thing is the juicy, soft but not fatty taste.
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