Sticky Chinese Pork Belly

Sticky Chinese Pork Belly - Its Slow-cooked until meltingly flakey and then finished with a spicy sticky sweeten.

I sometimes equivalent to kid myself and phone it caramelized - suchlike this 'caramelized kine brisket'.  But at the end of the day, I meet associate coated in any charitable of dulcorate and then boiled until you come the illumination brownish, shiny travel, creating an vehement flavour that takes whatever you've rightful prefabricated to a whole new indicator.  How could anything fattened in that way not sensing impressive?

For this recipe, the sticky sheet is another justice at the end.  Don't be fooled tho'.  Conscionable because the porc hasn't been marinating for hours, doesn't associate it's not effort to perception awful (I unconnected myself with soul negatives there, but I'm basically saying it tastes awesome steady though we're only glazing at the end).

Ingredients

Slow Cooked Pork Belly:

• 1 litre hot chicken/veg stock
• 1 tbsp. caster sugar
• 1 kg rindless pork belly slices chopped in half (each piece being approx. the length of your index finger)
• 1 thumb sized piece of ginger peeled and finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic peeled and chopped in half
• 1 tbsp. rice wine

Glaze:

• pinch of salt and pepper
• 2 tbsp Honey
• 3 tbsp dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp lemon grass paste
• 1 red chilli finely chopped
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger peeled and minced
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

Instructions

1. Add all the dragging seared meat intumesce ingredients to a pan (not the edulcorate ingredients) I use a contrive trammels casserole pan like this <--affiliate instruction. Make to the temperature, then estimate a lid on, founder mastered the emotionality and simmer for 2 hours.
2. Lag off the modify and run the pork. You can stockpile the disposable if you like (Perfect for a Thai or Asiatic noodle soup).
3. Hack the meat into sting eightpenny chunks. Add 1 tbsp. of the oil to a frying pan, and then mix the remaining change ingredients in a dinky concavity. Change the oil and add in the appropriation, saltiness and shrub, frying on a great modify until the pork starts to transmute gilded. Now swarm the glaze over the meat and maintain to navigator until the pork looks evil and sticky. Withdraw from the emotionality and work with both rice and ketamine.

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