Red-cooked Pork Belly
Red-cooked pork is a Chinese recipe where pork belly is braised in spiced soy sauce for hours. Easy red-cooked pork recipe that is tasty and authentic.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 132kcal
Equipment
- 1 Clay pot or Dutch oven
Ingredients
Parboil
- 1 kg (2 lb) pork belly
- 150 g (5 oz) ginger, sliced
Braise
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 90 g (3 oz) large scallion, white part cut into 3-inch pieces
- 3 dried red chili peppers
- 1 teaspoon red Sichuan peppercorns
- 2 tablespoons Shaoxing cooking wine
- 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
- 1 star anise
- 1 inch (2.5cm) 2 cm piece cassia bark or cinnamon bark
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water
Instructions
Parboil
- Bring a pot of water to boil. Immerse the entire slab of pork belly with ginger. Remove any scum that surfaces. After five minutes, discard water and rinse meat and ginger with cold water. Slice pork belly into 1-inch (2.5cm) cubes.
Braise
- Heat cooking oil and sugar in a clay pot over low flame and let the sugar begin to melt. Toss in the pork pieces and ginger with scallion, chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns and brown over high flame. Add Shaoxing wine and dark soy sauce while continuing to stir fry. Add salt, star anise, cassia bark and water. Bring to a gentle boil then simmer over lowest flame, covered, for at least 2 hours. Stir occasionally.
- Serves 6-8 people with a dinner serving 6-8 dishes.
Notes
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Nutrition
Serving: 4people | Calories: 132kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 1097mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g