Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Dongpo/Hong Shou Rou)

Name: Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Dongpo/Hong Shou Rou)
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 slice Pork Belly; 3 tbsp Oil; 6 clove Garlic; 4 each Star-Anise; 1/2 tbsp Sichuan Peppercorns; 1 teaspoon Cloves; 1/2 cup Honey; 1 can Chicken Stock; 1 small Ginger slices; 1/4 cup Thick Sweet Soy Sauce; 1/4 cup Light Soy Sauce; 1/4 cup Dark Soy Sauce; 2 stick Cinnamon; 2 each Potato; 8 each Cooked Tofu Cubes

jokjok @cook_3453927

A savory meal that utilizes pork belly. Main flavors are cinnamon and star-anise.

jokjok @cook_3453927

A savory meal that utilizes pork belly. Main flavors are cinnamon and star-anise.

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Ingredients

120 mins

4 servings

Main Ingredients
3 slicePork Belly
3 tbspOil
6 cloveGarlic
4each Star-Anise
1/2 tbspSichuan Peppercorns
1 teaspoonCloves
1/2 cupHoney
1 canChicken Stock
1small Ginger slices
1/4 cupThick Sweet Soy Sauce
1/4 cupLight Soy Sauce
1/4 cupDark Soy Sauce
2 stickCinnamon
Optional Add-ons
2each Potato
8each Cooked Tofu Cubes

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Steps

120 mins

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, stir for 1 minute. 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, cloves, 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.