Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork

Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork

Overview

In fact, I don’t like to eat pork. When I was a child in Xinjiang, I grew up eating beef and mutton. My mother doesn’t know how to cook pork at all, and she always feels that pork is extremely fishy. It wasn’t until I went to college and traveled around that I discovered that some dishes could only be made with pork. For the first time, my mother asked me to cook braised pork another day. It should be fat but not greasy, and it will melt in your mouth. My mother, what’s going on lately? I’m so greedy. I want to express my condolences to my mother who has worked so hard to raise my baby. If I don’t choose another day, today will be the day

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Steps

  1. Wash the skin-on pork belly and cut into mahjong-sized pieces. The pork belly my dad bought was so fat that I was really speechless. Practice refining oil well

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 1

  2. Prepare the seasonings. To be honest, if you want the braised pork to be delicious, there is only one secret. If you stew it for a long time, rock sugar and ginger are enough. However, there are some ingredients that I feel more at ease with. To bring out the flavor of the meat, it is recommended to add less seasoning. If you are really worried, just like me, you can’t go wrong with a little of everything

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 2

  3. Put the cut meat into the pot, add cold water to boil, skim off the foam, and cook until the blood is gone, which is 5-10 minutes after boiling

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 3

  4. Drain the cooked meat, put a little oil in the pot and stir-fry over medium-low heat until golden brown appears on the surface of the meat. Finally, add the ingredients and stir-fry, so that the smell of the fried pork can be removed. There must be an extra bowl of lard

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 4

  5. Anyway, braised pork is destined not to be very healthy. In order to fry it to get a beautiful sugar color, I put a few more pieces of rock sugar. After all, it is more than two kilograms of meat, but it really shrank quickly after stir-frying. Don't panic when melting the rock sugar. You can start with medium heat. When the rock sugar is about to melt, be sure to lower the heat. Then wait quietly. The rock sugar will turn into the color of caramel, and then super beautiful bubbles will appear. At this time, the sugar is ready

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 5

  6. When you see that there are no golden bubbles, you can add the fried meat and change the heat to medium to coat the meat with sugar color.

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 6

  7. Then add cooking wine, stir-fry, add light soy sauce and stir-fry, without adding dark soy sauce, the color of rock sugar will be beautiful by itself

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 7

  8. Add enough boiling water and bring to a simmer. After the water boils, simmer for one and a half to two hours. The water should just exceed the pork

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 8

  9. The meat was simmered for an hour, with carrots and a little salt added, and not much light soy sauce, so it was not very salty. Then it was stewed on low heat for 40 minutes, leaving some soup. If there is too much soup, switch to high heat to remove it. Time gives the meat a beautiful caramel color and a gorgeous, rich aroma

    Melt-in-your-mouth braised pork step 9