We have been working with lots of pork belly lately. Reading and watching lots of videos. Learning different techniques, dishes and how to prepare them. There are lots of ways to cook pork belly. Sometimes great food, takes a long time. Most wouldn’t even attempt this dish because of the length and process. But for us, it’s quite rewarding to get to the end result and see how delicious it is! This pork belly dish is not greasy, meat melts in your mouth. I used 1 foot long piece by inch thick of pork belly for this one dish. Sliced in half. Put in a pot. They sell a big pack of pork belly at Costco for an excellent price, and pork belly goes a long way. I pour roughly 2TBSP soya sauce, 2TBSP Chinese cooking wine, some sugar (1TBSP we used cane sugar) sliced green onions and sliced ginger. Cover with water and bring to boil. Boil for 10minutes. Take out of water, and dry as much as possible. Let it sit out for a half hour or so while you get your pan of oil heating.
Now I like to fry mine a little longer to get that color on outside but you don’t need it that dark. Be careful when frying, grease is going to spit at you, you want a cover your pan/pot. Fry couple minutes per side. As soon as you take it out of the grease put in a bowl of ice cold water and in the fridge for overnight. Makes the meat nice, and tender inside.
Look how excellent that looks? Wowzers! Nice dark color on outside, cooked perfectly inside! Its ready to be used in any dish you like. It slices up very nicely cut these pieces a little thicker. Were going to make it extra special and now I’m going to steam this for 4-6hours. Use a heat safe bowl and place pork belly nicely all on bottom of the bowl. Your going to flip it out later so you should place pork in there nicely so looks good when done.
We use the same stuff we boiled it with. Poured over pork belly roughly 2TBSP each of soya sauce, chinese cooking wine, and sugar. I top with sliced green onions, ginger and a couple star anise.
Steam on stove in your steamer. For 4-6 hours. I do about 5. When it’s done, carefully drain out liquid into small sauce pan. And flip bowl of meat out on to a plate. Lucky been waiting forever, he’s so ready! Sorry dude not ready yet hehehe.
Thicken your sauce with a cornstarch/water mixture.
Pour all that goodness all over the pork belly!I like to let that sit for a little bit to let all the sauce go down inbetween the meat. It’s ready Lucky said, he can’t wait lol
We serve with some sticky rice. Excellent dish, we love it! We would love to hear how you cook your pork belly.
