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Sweet and Sour Pork Chop

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1, Season pork chop with salt and black pepper.

2, Dust pork chop with potato starch. A thin starch layer is enough.

3, Heat a pan, add in oil. Fry pork chop till both sides turn golden brown. And put them aside.

4, Use the same pan, add in a bit extra oil. Fry chopped garlic till aromatic.

5, Add in sweet and sour sauce, I used Lee Kum Kee sweet and sour sauce and 1/4 cup water. Stir evenly.

6, Put pork chop back in the pan. Simmer with low heat for 5 mins. Flip once or two times while cooking.

And ready to serve.

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Homemade Char Siew

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This is a very simple recipe to make Char Siew pork at home, and you don’t even need to use oven.

1, Put a piece of pork shoulder butt into a big bowl.

2, Make marinade: 2 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp dark soy sauce, 1 tbsp cooking wine, 2 tsp ground five spice, 1 tbsp sugar, slices of 1 onion, ginger slices, and a pinch salt.

3, Pour all the marinade into the bowl and fully mix with pork. Let it marinate for at least 1 hour.

4, Heat a pot. Add in 1/2 marinade, pork and pour into enough water covers pork. Bing to boil and simmer for about 40 mins or till pork is fully cooked.

5, Heat a frying pan. Add cooked pork in. Fry each sides till a bit burnt to get the black char.

6, Pour the rest marinade in and reduce the sauce.

7, Cut the pork into slices, and drizzle with the thick sauce.

My husband loves it.

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Braised Pork with Water Bamboo Shoot

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I don’t know the exact English name for this vegetable, cause it said water bamboo choot on the package. In Chinese, we call it 茭白 (jiao bai). And its texture is very similar to normal bamboo shoot.

1, Cut pork into cubes. Peel water bamboo shoot and also cut into chunks.

2, Heat a pan. Add in oil, sear the pork till slightly golden brown.

3, Add in water bamboo shoot, stir fry evenly for 2-3 mins.

4, Add in 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce and 1 tsp sugar. Stir fry a bit.

5, Pour in hot water enough to cover all the ingredients. Simmer with low heat for 20 mins.

6, Reduce the sauce by high heat.

7, Garnish with chopped spring onion.

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Pig Ear & Cucumber Salad

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Pig ear taste very crunchy because it’s full of soft bone. In China, Many people like to make pig ear salad.

  1. Put pig ear into a pot, Add in several ginger slices, 1 tbsp cooking wine and 1 tbsp light soy sauce. Bring to boil with high heat. Then simmer with low heat for about 30 mins. Or until chopsticks can easily poke it through.
  2. Soak in cold water and drain. Let it cool down and cut into slices.
  3. Use the knife to hit the cucumber to pat it a bit flat. And cut into small chunks. Add into pig ear slices.
  4. Chop 4 cloves of garlic and a little ginger. If you want it to be spicy, you can also add in chopped chili.
  5. Heat a pan, add in 1 tbsp oil. Saute garlic and ginger till aromatic. Add in 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp sugar. Mix well.
  6. Pour sauce into the pig ear & cucumber. Give it a good stir.

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Pork Liver Porridge

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  1. Add rice and water into a pot. Bring to boil. Rice:water is 1:4.
  2. Skim the porridge and remove the foam.
  3. Transfer all rice and water into pressure cooker. (I really use pressure cooker a lot recently). Cook for 20 mins.
  4. While porridge is being cooked, prepare the pork liver.
  5. Cut liver into slices. Wash in water again and again till no more blood.
  6. Marinate pork liver with 1 tbsp cooking wine, 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp white pepper powder, 1 pinch sugar, ginger slices and 1 tbsp starch. Mix well and marinate for 15-20 mins.
  7. When porridge is down, Keep heating it. Add in pork liver. Keep stirring cos the porridge will be very thickened. Cook for 5-8 mins till pork liver is fully cooked.
  8. Season with salt.
  9. Serve with chopped spring onion.

My husband likes this type of porridge, and he likes my pork liver porridge very much.

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Sliced Pork Belly with Garlic Sauce (蒜泥白肉）

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This dish is very simple.

1, Prepare pork belly with skin on, about 400g.

2, Boil some water, make sure it can cover the whole pork belly.

3, Put pork belly in, add in several ginger slices and 1 tsp cooking wine. Simmer with low heat for 20 mins.

4, Take pork belly out, put in a plate and let it cool down. And cut into slices.

5, Prepare sauce:

4 cloves of chopped garlic. (I stir fry it a bit in a pan with some oil, just to make it less pungent)

1/2 1 tbsp light soy sauce

1 tbsp sugar

1 chopped spring onion

1 tbsp water

1/2 tsp sesame oil

Mix all of them in a bowl.

You can pour the sauce over the pork belly slices or use it as dipping sauce and serve with pork slices.

I chose the first way.

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Japanese Chashu Pork

Pressure cooker makes this dish a lot easier to make.

  1. Prepare a pork belly with skin on, about 500 g.
  2. Roll it up from one side to the other. Tie it with kitchen twine very tight.
  3. Put pork in a deep pot, add in enough water. Bring to boil and cook for 10 mins.
  4. Rinse pork in water to wash off all the dirt.
  5. Put pork into pressure cooker. Add in 1/2 cup light soy sauce, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup mirin, 1/4 cup cooking wine, 1/4 cup dark soy sauce, 5 ginger slices, 1 stalk of chopped green onion.
  6. Cook in high pressure for 20 mins.
  7. Rotate the pork and cook for another 20 mins. Then rotate again and cook for last 20 mins.
  8. Take the pork out into a container. Pour the sauce in. Soak pork in the sauce. You can also add in boiled egg.

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Put into fridge for hours or overnight.

Cut into slices and serve with chopped spring onion.

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Pork Intestine Stir-fry (溜肥肠 Liu Fei Chang)

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I know many people don’t eat pork intestines. But I like them.

Cleaning pork intestines may be a bit time consuming. Yet when you taste the dish after cooking, all the work is totally worth it.

  1. Remove the fat inside pork intestines. Just to make this dish a bit healthier.
  2. Put intestines in a big bowl, wash several times in water.
  3. Sprinkle salt and add in 2 tbsp vinegar. Wash and rub it for about 10 mins to remove all the dirt and the not-so-good smell.
  4. Wash clean in water again.
  5. Cut into rings.
  6. Add in light soy sauce to marinate them.
  7. Dust with starch.
  8. Deep fry till golden brown color with low-medium heat.
  9. Heat some oil, Add in chopped onion, garlic, and green chili. Stir fry till aromatic.
  10. Add in fried intestines and stir fry evenly.
  11. Add in 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp oyster sauce, 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce, and 1/2 tsp sugar. Mix well.
  12. Reduce sauce with medium heat.

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Oven Roasted Pig Feet

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1, Wash pig feet clean. I bought the pig feet from supermarket and they were chopped already.

2, Put pig feet in a pot, add in enough water covers them all.

3, Bring to boil and boil for 8-10 mins.

4, Take out the pig feet, Wash off all the dirt.

5, Put pig feet into pressure cooker, Add in 1 tbsp rock sugar, 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce, bay leaves, ginger slices, star anise and cinnamon.

6, Cook under high pressure for 40 mins. Pig feet will become very soft and juicy.

7. Preheat oven to 200 degree C.

8, Place pig feet in the baking tray with skin side up. Poke the skin with a fork and sprinkle chili powder, five spice powder and white sesame. and roast for 10-15 mins.

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Pork & Kailan Pasta

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The other day, I bought a pack of frozen Spanish Iberian pork slices. And I decided to use it to cook pasta.

The only green vegetable I had is Kailan, so….no other choice for me.

1, Cook pasta and drain. Blanch kailan in hot water for 2 mins.

1, Heat skillet, Add in a little oil. Iberian pork is a bit fat, so I seared them to get all the fat out first.

2, When the pork starts to curl up, add in 2 cloves chopped garlic. Stir fry a bit.

3, Add in drained kailan. Stir fry for 2 mins. Season with salt and a lot of black pepper.

4, Off the heat, Add in pasta and mix well. Let pasta fully absorb the pork juice.