Chinese braised pork. Braised pork belly (红烧肉/hong shao rou/red cooked pork) is a well-known pork dishes prepared with a combination of ginger, garlic, and soy sauce and a myriad of aromatic spices and cook over an extended period. Absolutely delicious on top of Thai jasmine rice with a vegetable stir fry on the side. Fortunately we have several very large Asian supermarkets in our city so there is a great selection of pork belly and pretty much everything you could desire that is asian!

The flavorful sauce is then reduced into a gravy and poured over the finished dish. This Chinese Braised Pork Shoulder is certainly that. Chunks of pork shoulder simmered with a few aromatics and soy make the pork tender and flavorful. You can have Chinese braised pork using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chinese braised pork

Prepare 650 g of pork belly.
You need 3 of star anise.
Prepare 1 cube of red tofu.
It's 1 tbs of red tofu liquid.
You need 2 tbs of dark soya sauce.
It's 1 tbs of shaoxing wine.
It's 1 tbs of honey.
You need 1 tbs of olive oil.
Prepare 2 tsp of minced garlic.
Prepare 2 cups of water.

Our kitchen smelled like a real Chinese restaurant. I am not talking about an American Chinese takeout place, but the traditional places we get a roast duck and pork. Braised pork belly or Dong Po Rou (东坡肉) is an iconic traditional Chinese braised pork belly recipe of Hangzhou (杭州), created by Su Dong Po, a famous scholar, writer, poet, calligrapher, gastronome, and court official of the Song dynasty. Over the centuries, this dish has become very popular, and once you taste it, you'll know why!

Chinese braised pork step by step

Chop pork. Add garlic and olive oil, cook till browned (heat 9).
Add sauce, cook till simmering.
Add pork, coat thoroughly. Cook till simmering, then lower heat to 3, simmer for 1h 45 mins, stirring every 30 mins.

You seriously gotta try this Ultimate Classic Taiwanese Comfort Food - Instant Pot Taiwanese Braised Pork (Chinese: 滷肉飯; Lu Rou Fan)! Mouthful of savory-sweet-umami melt-in-the-mouth tender juicy pork belly rice is super comforting & satisfying to eat. Other pork belly favorite recipes include Mei Cai Kou Rou, a famous steamed pork belly, Braised pork belly with arrowroot, a Cantonese New Year's favorite, And others not so similar but really good are Cantonese roast pork belly and Twice cooked pork belly. Try this Oktoberfest pork shank recipe, a staple on the German dinner table. Served simply with boiled potato and sauerkraut, a trip to Germany or its neighbors is simply incomplete without having a meal or ten of pork shank.