Braised Red Pork Belly
Braised Red Pork Belly

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, braised red pork belly. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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. 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.

Braised Red Pork Belly is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Braised Red Pork Belly is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have braised red pork belly using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Braised Red Pork Belly:
  1. Take 1 kg pork belly
  2. Prepare 1 star anise
  3. Get slices Garlic and ginger
  4. Take Half Tangerine peel
  5. Take to taste:
  6. Take rock sugar
  7. Take light soy sauce
  8. Take dark soy sauce

There are many varieties of Hongshao Rou. Caramelized pork belly is braised in soy sauce and rice wine in a slow cooker until meltingly tender in this recipe for a Chinese specialty. The pork belly didn't absorb any flavor. I ended up draining the juice into a pan and reducing it.

Steps to make Braised Red Pork Belly:
  1. Add water and put pork belly and boil for 5 mins. After that, remove and rinse in water then slice into big cubes.
  2. Heat wok add oil and saute garlic ginger star anise tangerine peel, lastly add pork.
  3. Pour 1 cup of water, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and simmer for 30.mins.
  4. 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.

Then I tossed the meat so there was at least a little flavor there. Overall though, Chinese people love their braised pork belly. It's a very popular dish, but depending on where you're traveling in China, the taste can vary Even in Hunan, there are many variations of Chairman Mao's Red Braised Pork Belly. Soy sauce vs. no soy sauce; more aromatics vs. less. This popular dish gets its signature red colour from cooking the pork in a sweet-and-savoury sauce made with caramelized sugar and soy sauce.

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