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Pork Belly with Chilli, Soy and Mirin
by Richard Phillips
from Great Food Live
Richard Phillips celebrates a classic
Chinese stew in this hearty dish to share with friends.
Servings: 3-4
Level of difficulty:
Easy
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 5 hours
Ingredients
For the pork
1kg lean pork belly,
skinned, boned, and excess fat removed
500ml Soy Sauce
250ml mirin (rice
wine vinegar)
1 litre water
250ml Fish Sauce
50g Sugar
50g
root ginger
2 tbsp dried fish flakes, available from oriental food stores
1 red chilli, roughly chopped
For the vegetables
4
medium sized Carrots, thinly sliced
1 Chinese leaf, ripped into
2 cm
pieces
1/2 tsp butter
150g enoki mushrooms
For the spring
greens garnish
handful spring greens
vegetable oil, for deep-frying
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 140C/gas 1. Cut the
pork into 10cm square pieces. Heat a large frying pan over a high heat, add the
oil and quickly fry the pork until lightly coloured on both sides.
2.
Transfer the meat to a large ovenproof dish. Pour over the soy sauce, mirin, water
and fish sauce. Stir in the sugar, ginger , dried fish flakes and red chilli.
Cover with a lid, and cook in the oven for 4-5 hours, or until the meat is tender.
3. Remove the pork from the pan. Strain the cooking liquor through a
fine sieve into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Skim off any excess fat and cook
down until it has reduced by half.
4. Heat a heavy frying pan or griddle
over a moderate heat, and sear the pork, fat side down, until crisp.
5. While the pork is cooking, make the spring green garnish. Finely shred the
leaves and deep-fry in hot oil until crisp and golden. This will only take a few
seconds. Drain on absorbent paper.
6. Drop the carrots into boiling
water and cook for 2-3 minutes. They should still be quite crisp.
7.
Heat the butter in a small pan and quickly stir-fry the cabbage leaf pieces and
enoki mushrooms for about 30 seconds - until the cabbage begins to wilt.
8. To serve, arrange the pork pieces over the carrots, cabbage and mushrooms.
Ladle over the cooking liquor, and scatter with the crisp-fried spring greens
before bringing to the table.
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