Dong Po Stewed Pork Recipe

Dong Po Stewed Pork Recipe

Ingredients: Serves 4

900g pork belly with skin

4 stalks scallions

1 small piece ginger

2 star anise

10g cinnamon peel

8 straw strings

 

Seasonings:

2 tablespoons sugar

5 tablespoons soy sauce

½ cup Shao-xing wine

 

Method:

Choose a piece of pork with 5cm wide, then cut into 5cm square chunks.  Soak straw strings to soft, tie pork with one string.  Boil pork for 2 minutes.  Stir-fry sugar with 2 tablespoons of oil until browned, add 4 cups of water, bring to a boil and add scallion, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, soy sauce and ¼ cup of wine.  Put pork in after water boils again.  Simmer for 2 hours.  Turn off the heat, remove pork to a bowl when pork cools.  Filter the soup to bowl, add 2 tablespoons of wine in, steam pork for 1 hour more.  Store pork in refrigerator over night.  Scoop away grease from top, add 2 tablespoons of wine again, steam for 30 minutes until heated thoroughly.  Serve.

 

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