大象传媒

Beer Braised Pork Belly

Ingredients:-
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2听lbs听pork belly
1听onion听(sliced)
4听x4 cm听ginger听(sliced)
2听cloves听garlic
1听cup听beer
3听cups听beef broth
3听tablespoons听soy sauce
2听tablespoons听rice vinegar
2听tablespoons听dark soy sauce
1听tablespoon听Chinese rice cooking wine
1听teaspoon听Chinese five spice powder
2-3听small听Chinese yellow rock sugar听(or 3 teaspoons of regular sugar)

Toppings (Optional):-
spring onions听(finely chopped)
toasted sesame seeds

Instructions:-
Slice the ginger and onions and roughly smash the garlic
Cut the pork belly into 2cm x 3cm chunks. (Don't cut them up too thin else they will melt away into nothing!)
In a skillet or heavy-bottomed pot, set the heat to medium and add in the pork belly to start browning it. (Be careful at this point. Pork belly splatters a lot. Use a lid as a shield to deflect some of that hot oil away from you, if you have to!)
When you have browned the pork belly halfway through, add in the onions, garlic and ginger to brown them as well.
Once all the pork belly has been browned, add in the five spice, beer, rice vinegar, broth, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, shaoxing cooking wine, sugar.
Set the stove to high and bring everything to a vigorous boil and boil it for 15 minutes
Once everything has boiled for 15 minutes, set the stove to medium-low to low heat and put a lid on the pot. You want the braising liquid to be doing a low rolling boil. Check on the pot at the 45-minute mark to make sure the sauce hasn't reduced to less than half the amount of liquid and that it isn't burning. If the sauce is a syrupy consistency, then it's done. If the sauce hasn't reduced to a syrupy consistency, cook it for another 35 minutes but check on it every 10 minutes. (For a total of 1 hour and 20 minutes)
If it still hasn't reached that syrupy consistency, continue to cook it for 5-10 more minutes until the sauce has thickened.
Serve with white rice, plain noodles, fries or roasted potatoes mashed potatoes.