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

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Braised pork belly or Dong Po Rou (东坡肉) is an iconic traditional Chinese braised pork belly recipe of Hangzhou (杭州), created by Su Dong Po, a famous scholar, writer, poet, calligrapher, gastronome, and court official of the Song dynasty. Over the centuries, this dish has become very popular, and once you taste it, you'll know why! Over the centuries, this Braised Pork Belly Dong Po Rou dish has become very popular, and once you taste it, you'll know why.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook braised chinese pork belly (special dongpo recipe) using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe):
  1. Make ready Main Ingredients
  2. Get 3 slice Pork Belly
  3. Get 3 tbsp Oil
  4. Get 6 clove Garlic
  5. Get 4 each Star-Anise
  6. Get 1/2 tbsp Sichuan Peppercorns
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup Honey
  8. Prepare 1 can Chicken Stock
  9. Get 1 small Ginger
  10. Make ready 1/4 cup Thick Sweet Soy Sauce
  11. Make ready 1/4 cup Light Soy Sauce
  12. Prepare 1 stick Cinnamon
  13. Get Optional Add-ons
  14. Take 2 each Potato
  15. Make ready 8 each Cooked Tofu Cubes

Remove from the water, and blot dry with paper towels. Pork is most definitely not just "the other white meat" in China. From the smoky-licious BBQ Pork (叉烧) and Crispy Pork Belly (烧肉) in Cantonese cuisine to the dainty-licious Xiao Long Bao (小笼包) from Shanghai and numerous other famous Chinese pork dishes in between, pork is clearly the meat of choice in Chinese cooking. In fact, the Chinese character for meat '肉' (ròu.

Steps to make Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe):
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Slice ginger into thin pieces. Dice 3 cloves of garlic into smaller pieces. Crush remaining 3 pieces of garlic.
  3. Add oil into a roasting pan. Heat roast pan into medium heat.
  4. Slice pork belly sticks into 3 individual pieces -resulting into 9 pieces. Make more if desired to make larger serving.
  5. Once the roasting pan is heated, stir fry garlic, ginger, star-anise, sichuan peppercorn together with the oil in medium heat.
  6. 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.
  7. Set the pork belly on their side and add honey all over the dish.
  8. Expose all the sides of the pork belly to the honey-oil-mixture of ingredients.
  9. Add chicken stock, soy sauce and sweet thick soy sauce to the mixture.
  10. Again mix the pork belly and expose all its side to the stock-honey-oil-ingredients concoction.
  11. Wait for the stock-honey-oil-ingredients to boil.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.

Mao's Braised Pork Belly Recipe Instructions The first step is to blanch the pork belly, which removes any blood or impurities from the meat. With the lid on, bring it to a boil. Transfer out and wash with warm water. Boil some water in a wok, enough to just cover the pork. As soon as the time is up, lift the pork out of the wok and immerse into ice cold water; this will stop the meat from cooking any further.

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