Invited my parents and sister over for dinner. We have only this braised dish and steamed rice on the dinner table, nothing else. A very down-to-earth dish but at the end of the dinner our guests left with satisfied face.
1kg Pork Belly
500g Salted Preserved Mustard Cabbage
250g Sweeted Preserved Mustard Cabbage
1/2 cup Cooking oil
1 bulb (medium) Garlic (with skin)
1500ml Water
Seasoning:
2 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
2 Tbsp Dark Soy Sauce (for pork belly)
2 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
2 Tbsp Sugar
How I made:
- Boiled salted preserved mustard cabbage in water for ~ 10 minutes. Pour away salted water and repeat this process (boiled twice - if necessary), to remove excess salt. Pour away salted water, rinse, squeezed the mustard cabbage and cut coarsely.
- Soaked the sweetened preserved mustard cabbage in water for ~ 30minutes. Pour away water, rinse, squeezed the mustard cabbage and cut coarsely.
- Boiled pork belly in water for ~ 20 minutes. Removed and pat-dry. Marinate with dark soy sauce evenly.
- Deep-fry pork belly in hot oil until golden brown. Dish up and soak into cold water immediately for ~ 20 minutes.
- Heat up cooking oil in pot, saute cloves of garlic with skin until fragrance.
- Then pour in water, seasoning, pork belly, salted & sweetened preserved mustard cabbage. Covered and cooked until boiling.
- Reduced heat and braised for ~ 1.5 hours or until pork belly is tender.
- Remove pork belly and cut into slices. Continue braise the mustard cabbage until gravy thickened.
- To serve, place slice pork belly back on mustard cabbage gravy. Serve hot.
Points to hightlight:
Highly recommend to use both salted and sweetened preserved mustard cabbage together for this dish.
If possible, for braising, used a heavy base pot which comes with matching cover. I used cast-iron pot.
I like to take this with porridge.
ReplyDeleteYes, it goes well porridge too!
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