Chinese Braised Pork Belly (Hong Shao Nou红烧肉)

Chinese Braised Pork Belly (Hong Shao Nou红烧肉) is very famous dish in Asian country. You can order in many Chinese Restaurant and it also have many different recipe. I found this recipe in YouTube, Ingredient not much and the instruction not complicated. 

Ingredient :

- 500g Pork Belly

- 150ml Rice wine

- 5 tbsp Soy Sauce 

- 60g Rock Sugar

- 50g Spring Onion (Cut about 3 to 4 inch)

- 50g Ginger (Slice it )

- 1pcs Bay Leaf

 Instruction : 
- Clean the pork belly and cut in cube size about 1 inch or 1.5 inch
- Then boil the water and add in the pork belly,2 slice ginger and few spring onion. Lightly blanch the pork for 1 to 2 minutes to remove any impurities .
- Drain the pork belly from the boil water then wash again with cold water.
- Add little bit oil into pan and add in pork belly and fried all side turn little bit color then remove from pan.
- Take a Claypot put on small firer and add in all the spring onion and following by slice ginger then add arrange the pork belly
- Add in rice wine and cover lid and cook about 15min
- Use back the pan with the pork oil, add in rock sugar cook until melt then add in 50ml water.
- Add in the rock sugar water into claypot and cook about 50min. (Before you cover the lid, you can cut one foil just fit to the claypot , put on top of the meat then only cover with lid. )
- After 50 min, remove the foil add in the soy sauce and turn to middle fire cook until the reduction until the sauce in certain level.
- Add in some fine chop spring onion then can be served.