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Drunken pork belly 紅燒醉肉

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Green ginger vino makes a bang-up refreshing cocktail amongst lime in addition to fizzy water.  I also purpose it for oriental cooking.when I am out of Chinese cooking wine. Stone's is nice. I also similar Lidl's (silly me! simply think it's Aldi non lidl) ain build but it is entirely available or hence Christmas time.


This stewed pork recipe was created when I had a bottle of erstwhile ginger vino to purpose upwards quickly. I was pleased how flavourful it was. It's similar to hong shao rou but packed amongst vino flavour.


900g - 1kg pork belly* amongst skin, inwards slices or cutting into large chunks
a chunk of ginger sliced
two - iii star anise
1 pocket-sized piece of cassia bark (cinnamon)
1 regular bunch of jump onion (scallion) cutting into 12 - 15cm long
2.5 tbsp nighttime soy
four tbsp lite soy
1 tbsp Chinkiang rice vinegar
well-nigh 1/2 - 2/3 bottle of greenish ginger vino (Stone's or supermarket ain brand)


*You tin give the axe also purpose one-half belly in addition to one-half spare ribs.
** I don't unremarkably add together garlic amongst this stewed pork, I detect garlic is also rigid masking the season of the ginger wine. If yous actually desire to add together garlic, add together few whole cloves amongst the pare on.



  • Blanch pork inwards boiling H2O for well-nigh 1 - two instant till meat has turned white. Remove in addition to rinse nether the tap to take away whatsoever scum. 
  • Take a medium size pot that volition agree all the pork (preferably clay pot or heavy bottom pot). Line the pot amongst all the jump onion in addition to then the ginger slices in addition to the residual of of the spices. Lastly lay the pork pieces on top.
  • Add dark, lite soy in addition to vinegar. Finally pour inwards plenty ginger vino to almost encompass the meat.
  • Gently convey the temperature of liquid to close boiling at medium heat. Keep your optic on it, practice non permit it boil over. Cover amongst the lid ajar (to permit the liquid reduce) in addition to simmer at depression rut for well-nigh two hours or till the meat has function out really tender. Regular checks to ensure the liquid is non boiling over in addition to turning the meat pieces if necessary to immerse inwards the sauce. If liquid is drying upwards also fast add together to a greater extent than vino or H2O during simmering. 
  • When meat is tender enough, skim off the fatty floating on top of the sauce. 
  • Mix few tbsp of ginger vino amongst 1 tbsp of cornflour. Stir this into the sauce in addition to create briefly till sauce is lightly thicken.
  • Leave the cooked meat to residual for a land earlier serving.  
  • I also blanched some choi amount to soak upwards the sauce. Add a fiddling cooking stone oil to the boiling H2O volition proceed the veggie greenish in addition to glossy.