Receta Braised Pork Belly With Rice - 卤肉饭
(Serves: 4 | Preparation: 10 minutes | Cooking: 60 minutes)
Ingredients:
- 500g Pork Belly (三层肉), cut into thick strips
- 4 Hardboiled Egg, shelled
- 2 Pieces of Firm Beancurd (豆干), cut into quarters
- 6 Shiitake Mushrooms, soak till soften
- Some Dried Beancurd Stick (腐竹), optional
- 500ml Hot Water
- 2 Star Anise (八角)
- 3 Cloves (丁香)
- 1 Cinnamon Stick (肉桂棒)
- 5 Cloves Garlic, crashed
- 3 Shallot
- 2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
- 2 Tablespoon Dark Soy Sauce
- 1/2 Tablespoon Oyster Sauce
- 1 Tablespoon Cooking Wine
- 1 Teaspoon Sesame Oil
- 1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
Method:-
1. Marinate the pork belly with 1/2 Tablespoon each of oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of sesame oil, 1 tablespoon of cooking wine and 1 teaspoon grated ginger for at least an hour.
2. Preheat frying pan with some oil and fry the firm beancurd till slightly golden brown on all sides. Remove and set aside.
3. Using the same frying pan, add in another tablespoon of oil. Saute garlic and shallots till fragrant, add star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick and marinated meat (without the sauce) and fry till slightly golden brown in colour on both side.
4. Add in mushrooms and continue to fry for another 30 seconds. Next stir in oyster sauce, light and dark soya sauce, cooking wine, sesame oil and sugar and give it a quick stir till well mixed.
5. Pour in hot water, bring it to boil and let it simmer for about 30 minutes or more till the meat is tender, add in hard boiled eggs, beancurd and soaked beancurd stick. Continue to simmer for another 15 minutes till all ingredients are flavoured by the soy sauce.
6. Remove from heat and serve with steamed white rice.
Tip:
~ Soak the dried beancurd in warm water till soften, rinse a few time and drained well, set aside.
~ Fresh Shiitake mushrooms can be used to replaced the dry ones too.
~ If Cooking Spices like Star Anise, Cinnamon Stick and etc are not available in your area, replace it with 1 teaspoon or more of five spice powder for taste.
~ For extra flavour, add in 2 - 3 dried chilli in step 3, and remove it on step 5 before adding hard boiled eggs and etc.