Simple Way to Prepare Homemade Red braised pork

Red braised pork. Red braised pork belly is a very classic, famous dish in China. When choosing the pork belly, it should have even layers of fat and meat. Rock sugar is commonly used for this dish.

I've even seen gorgeous cuts of pork belly at Costco. Personally, I always pick the leanest. Variations on Braised Pork Belly in China.

Hey everyone, hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, red braised pork. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red braised pork belly is a very classic, famous dish in China. When choosing the pork belly, it should have even layers of fat and meat. Rock sugar is commonly used for this dish.

Red braised pork is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It's enjoyed by millions daily. It's simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Red braised pork is something which I've loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red braised pork using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red braised pork:

1. {Prepare 1-2 lbs of Skin on Pork belly.
2. {Get of Shaoxing wine (cooking wine).
3. {Make ready of Ginger.
4. {Make ready of Green onion.
5. {Get of Sugar.
6. {Take of Salt.
7. {Take of Oyster sauce.
8. {Get of Fish sauce.
9. {Prepare of Sichuan peppercorn.
10. {Take of Star Anise.
11. {Get stick of Cinnamon.
12. {Get leaf of Bay.
13. {Get of Ground white pepper.
14. {Take of Corn starch slurry for thickening if needed.

Overall though, Chinese people love their braised pork belly. 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. Tender, gelatinous and aromatic, Chinese red braised pork belly is scrumptious and comforting.

Steps to make Red braised pork:

1. Torch the skin until it's blackened to make sure all the hair is removed, and then scrub off the charred part. The skin will have a yellow / red tinge afterwards..
2. Add cold water to a pot, enough to cover pork. Cut pork into preferred size (1.5 in cube) Add shaoxing wine (about 1/2 cup), ginger (about 1 inch knob and sliced), green onion (1 stalk). Boil and skim off foam. Remove pork and discard water..
3. Wash pork in hot /warm water to remove any foam..
4. Make caramel (can use caramel coloring soy sauce to replace this step) Add small amount of oil to work, add sugar (about 3 tbsp). Keep stirring while heating up, until sugar melts and the will turn into caramel fairly quickly. Add pork to coat the caramel on pork. (Watch for oil splatter).
5. Add one star anise, 1 in piece of cinnamon, about 1-2 tsp Sichuan peppercorn, 1 bay leaf, 2 in knob of ginger (sliced), 2-3 stalks of green onion and white pepper. Stir until fragrant, then add soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, and shaoxing wine, and enough water to cover pork..
6. Bring the wok to a boil, skim off any foam that is still there, and then keep it at rolling boil for another 15 minutes. This step will make sure the pork will absorb the coloring and turn red..
7. Put everything in pressure cooker and cook on high for 35 minutes. Quick release pressure..
8. Remove all pork and sieve through the braising liquid to remove all spices and ginger/green onions..
9. Put pork and braising liquid to wok, high heat to reduce the liquid to a thicker sauce. Adjust seasoning to taste (mostly needs more sugar. There should be plenty of salt in fish sauce and soy sauce).
10. Once the liquid is thickened, time to eat..

Apart from the desired taste and texture, braised pork belly also stands out for its red-brownish shine. Red-colored meats are eaten for good luck because red is the color of fire, a symbol of good fortune and Perhaps the most famous revolutionary dish from the Hunan province, this red-braised pork is. The recipe teaches how to cook the Red Braised Pork, Hong Shao Rou in Chinese, in the way of stewing, which is a representative of Chinese meat dishes. The famous red-braised pork belly, or hong shao rou, is one of the classic pork dishes that In Chinese, hong means red, shao means braised, and rou means meat. In this case, it refers to pork.

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