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Braised Pork belly with Black Vinegar and Asian Slaw

A delicious Slow cooked Pork recipe that will be loved by everyone

Servings: 2
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Asian

Ingredients

  • 500 gm Pork belly (skin removed -optional and cut into 3cm -2in pieces)
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 40 gm caster sugar 2 Tablespoons
  • 60 ml Shoaxshing Chinese cooking wine or medium sherry
  • 20 ml light soy 1 tablespoon
  • 40 ml dark soy or if you can only get salty soy like Kikoman use 2 Tablespoons total
  • 20 ml sesame oil 1 tablespoon
To Finish the braise
  • 70 gm brown sugar 1/3 cup
  • 125 ml Asian black vinegar (Chiakiang is best 8 Tablespoons)
  • 2 cloves of crushed garlic
  • 30 gm grated ginger 2 tablespoons
  • 10 gm sesame seeds to serve
Salad
  • 1/4 whole chinese cabbage finely shaved
  • 6 in snow peas julienned or cutstrips
  • 1 cup Coriander picked
  • 1 cup mint leaves picked
  • 1 cup green shallots sliced finely
  • 80 ml lemon juice 1/3 Aust cup
  • 40 gm sugar 2 tablespoons
  • 20 ml sesame oil 1 tablespoon
  • 60 ml light soy sauce 3 Tablespoons
  • 1 teaspoon grated ginger
  • 1 whole chilli sliced or to taste

Instructions

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  1. Combine all of the ingredients for the marinade and toss the pork in this. Put into a container and refrigerate overnight or as long as you have.
  2. When ready to cook . Drain the pork and keep the marinade for cooking.
  3. Heat a fry pan or wok add a little bit of oil and fry the pork on high till golden and coloured. Work in batches and drain each batch on absorbent paper as you go
  4. Put all of the fried pork into a heavy based saucepan and add the sugar, ginger, garlic , marinade, vinegar and enough water to just cover.
  5. Cook on low until the pork is tender ( around an hour)
  6. The liquid can be reduced further, if there is a lot. Skim the top for fat and add more vinegar or sugar as needed. Ideally the remaining sauce should be reduced by just over 1/2.This can be refrigerated and some of the fat removed before reheating if you like.
  7. Toss all of the vegetables for the salad together, and dress just before serving
  8. Mix the sugar, lemon soy sesame oil and ginger and toss through the coleslaw. Season with salt
  9. Serve the pork with rice and salad

Notes

  • You can also keep the Pork belly whole instead of cutting into pieces. Brown in the same way then lay in a flat dish with the marinade and covered when cooking on the stove top or put it into the oven at 200 C for an hour Most Pork belly pieces are 1 kg or larger so doubling the recipe for 1 - 2 kg is more than enough.