This is one of my favorite dishes that I like to eat at home. It’s something I like to ask my mom to cook every time I went home. I am a person who doesn’t like the acidity from the vinegar that much, so I am not a big fan to buy vinegar home. But recently I want to remake this family recipe because I miss it so much, and it was a huge success!
Usually, people use ribs for this dish. But I’m very lazy to eat meat with bones, so I decided to use the pork belly. That part of meat is also easy for me to purchase in the German supermarket and is perfect for the dish. It makes the dish a bit more greasy (so I wouldn’t recommend to eat it so often, even though it tastes AWESOME!), but it definitely tastes and works out very well!
If you worry this dish is very difficult, don’t be! I was really busy from work today, so I did all the preparation work and left it to cook in the kitchen while I was having meetings. Mr. 197 just went to the kitchen to check on it from time to time. So this dish definitely takes some time, but it is also easy to manage, and you can also do other stuff while it’s getting ready!
Braised Pork in Sweet-Vinegar Sauce
Ingredients
- 500 g Pork Belly
- 4 slices Ginger
- 5 cloves Garlic
Seasoning
- 1 tbsp Light Soya Sauce
- 2 tbsp Dark Soya Sauce
- 3 tbsp Zhen Jiang Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Rice Wine
- 60 g Stab Sugar (Brown Sugar in Piece)
Instructions
- Cut the pork belly into cubes.
- Boil a pot of hot water. When it's boiling, reduce the heat to medium-low, put the pork belly in for 2-3 mins. This is to get rid of the oil/bloody/dirty stuff from the meat. When it's done, take out the pork belly.
- In another pot, turn the fire to high heat, and put the pork belly, ginger, and the whole clove of garlic to stir-fry for a few mins.
- Add all the seasoning in the pot. Let it cook in high heat for 5 mins.
- Then turn the fire to low heat, cover with a lid and leave it to cook for 45 mins. There should be water coming from the meat, so there should be some "sauce" while it cooks. Stir it from time to time to make sure all sides of the pork could braise in the sauce.
- When 45 mins are up, it's ready! Make sure you cook enough rice, the pork and sauce are best to go with just plain rice!