Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe). Braise pork belly (Dong Po Rou) is surprisingly simple to prepare because it only involves six ingredients. You need a few hours of stewing before you can taste the fantastic evening combination of flavor and texture of the meat, which is definitely worth the wait. Ask for this cut of pork from your.

Chinese Braised Pork Belly. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. An authentic Chinese recipe that makes the perfect sweet and sour sticky pork. This recipe has been submitted by the Good Food community. You can have Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe) using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe)

It's of Main Ingredients.
Prepare 3 slice of Pork Belly.
You need 3 tbsp of Oil.
Prepare 6 clove of Garlic.
Prepare 4 of each Star-Anise.
Prepare 1/2 tbsp of Sichuan Peppercorns.
Prepare 1/2 cup of Honey.
Prepare 1 can of Chicken Stock.
Prepare 1 of small Ginger.
It's 1/4 cup of Thick Sweet Soy Sauce.
It's 1/4 cup of Light Soy Sauce.
It's 1 stick of Cinnamon.
It's of Optional Add-ons.
Prepare 2 of each Potato.
It's 8 of each Cooked Tofu Cubes.

Red braised ginger pork belly with pickled chillies. Mom's Chinese Braised Pork Belly ("hong shao rou"). For tender pork belly: the lower the heat and the longer the meat braises, the more tender it will become. I left this on the stovetop over low heat for almost two hours once while doing chores and it came out melt-in-your mouth delicious!

Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe) step by step

Preheat oven to 375°F..
Slice ginger into thin pieces. Dice 3 cloves of garlic into smaller pieces. Crush remaining 3 pieces of garlic..
Add oil into a roasting pan. Heat roast pan into medium heat..
Slice pork belly sticks into 3 individual pieces -resulting into 9 pieces. Make more if desired to make larger serving..
Once the roasting pan is heated, stir fry garlic, ginger, star-anise, sichuan peppercorn together with the oil in medium heat..
Once the pan is fragrant, slowly add the pork belly into its side one by one and sear it for about 20 seconds each side - with the bottom (opposite to fat side) being the last side to be seared..
Set the pork belly on their side and add honey all over the dish..
Expose all the sides of the pork belly to the honey-oil-mixture of ingredients..
Add chicken stock, soy sauce and sweet thick soy sauce to the mixture..
Again mix the pork belly and expose all its side to the stock-honey-oil-ingredients concoction..
Wait for the stock-honey-oil-ingredients to boil..
If it's boiling, remove from heat. Cover with foil and put it inside the oven. Set the timer to 1 hour and 30 minutes..
Depending on your desired add-on, add it to the roasting pan at the most appropriate time remaining. Example: Potato = 30 min. Cooked tofu cubes = 15 min..
Without turning off the oven, take out the pan at the around 45 min. - 1 hour mark and bring it to the range under medium-high heat to a boil. Let boil for 3-5 minutes then immediately bring it inside the oven again..

Braised Pork Belly (Dong Po Rou) - Wait for the tantalizing aroma to remind you of the mouth-watering concoction simmering on your stovetop. 子). Dongpo Pork is an iconic feature of Hangzhou (杭州) cuisine and can be attributed to Su Shi (苏轼) a.k.a Su Dongpo (苏东坡), a scholar and court official. Dongpo pork is Hangzhou's trademark dish, a sumptuous feast of meat; wonderfully rich tasting. To eat it is to begin to understand the role of fat in making meat taste great. This banquet-level dish is not simple to cook, and it takes time, but it is absolutely worth doing for a special occasion, and serving it.