Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, braised chinese pork belly (special dongpo recipe). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe) is something which I have loved my whole life.

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.

To get started with this particular 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. Get Main Ingredients
2. Take 3 slice Pork Belly
3. Take 3 tbsp Oil
4. Take 6 clove Garlic
5. Make ready 4 each Star-Anise
6. Prepare 1/2 tbsp Sichuan Peppercorns
7. Prepare 1/2 cup Honey
8. Take 1 can Chicken Stock
9. Prepare 1 small Ginger
10. Get 1/4 cup Thick Sweet Soy Sauce
11. Prepare 1/4 cup Light Soy Sauce
12. Make ready 1 stick Cinnamon
13. Take Optional Add-ons
14. Prepare 2 each Potato
15. Get 8 each Cooked Tofu Cubes

An authentic Chinese recipe that makes the perfect sweet and sour sticky pork. Dongpo rou is named after Su Dong Po, a famous Chinese poet who lived during the Song Dynasty. Try to get a slab of pork belly that has even layers of fat and meat. Mom's Chinese Braised Pork Belly ("hong shao rou").

Instructions 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.

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! 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.

So that’s going to wrap this up with this exceptional food braised chinese pork belly (special dongpo recipe) recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!