Home-style braised pork

Overview

How to cook Home-style braised pork at home

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• chinese banquet
• banquet dishes
• lunch
• dinner
• chicken essence
• cinnamon
• cooking wine
• dried chili pepper
• oil
• pork belly
• red yeast rice powder
• rock sugar
• star anise
• fragrant leaves
• ginger
• pepper
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 A piece of pork belly.

   

2. 2 Cut into thick pieces.

   

3. 3 Boil a pot of water and blanch the pork belly for 3 minutes.

   

4. 4 Pick it up, wash off the scum, drain and set aside.

   

5. 5 Prepare ingredients: ginger, dried chili peppers, bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise, and rock sugar.

   

6. 6 Heat oil in a pan and pour pork belly into the pan.

   

7. 7 Stir out some of the fat and set aside.

   

8. 8 Leave the base oil in the pot, add rock sugar, crush it with a spatula, and stir-fry over low heat until the sugar turns brown.

   

9. 9 Fry until caramel color develops.

   

10. 10 Return the pork belly to the pot and stir-fry until browned.

    

11. 11 Add ginger, dried chilies and spices and stir-fry until fragrant.

    

12. 12 Then add salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, red yeast powder, and pepper to taste.

    

13. 13 Stir fry evenly.

    

14. 14 Add water to cover the pork belly, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to simmering for 30 minutes.

    

15. 15 When the time is up, the water has reduced to a thick consistency, sprinkle some chicken essence to enhance the freshness, stir-fry and remove from the pan evenly.

    

16. 16 Finished product. Home-style braised pork, sweet and soft, fat but not greasy.