Chinese Pork Belly - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/2 cup shao hsing wine (Chinese rice wine) or dry sherry
    1/3 cup light soy sauce
    1/4 cup cider vinegar
    2 tbsp honey
    2 tsp chinese five-spice
    2 lbs skin on boneless pork belly
    1 bunch bok choy, halved lengthwise
    4 oz sugar snap peas, halved lengthwise
    None None Cilantro leaves and steamed rice, to serve
Preparation
    Preheat the oven to 300\u00b0F. Combine wine, soy, vinegar, honey and five spice in a baking dish. Add the pork and rub all over to coat. Place skin side up and cover dish with foil.
    Bake 2 hours.
    Turn broiler to high. Remove foil and broil 15-20 mins, until skin is well browned and crisp. Add 1/4 cup water to pan if sauce is getting too thick. Let stand, loosely covered, 15 mins.
    Meanwhile, blanch bok choy in saucepan of boiling salted water 1 min, adding sugar snaps for the last 30 seconds. Drain well.
    Thinly slice pork. Spoon pan juices over pork and top with cilantro leaves. Serve with greens and rice.

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