Caramel pork belly

Recipes / Meat

Serve this sticky, caramelised pork belly with steamed rice and Asian greens for a cold night in.

Recipe «Caramel pork belly» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 1:00 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 1kg Coles Australian Pork Belly, cut into 2.5cm pieces, 4 cups beef stock, 1/2 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup dry sherry, 20g ginger, peeled, cut into thin strips , 2 garlic cloves, crushed, 2 whole star anise, 4 spring onions, thinly sliced , 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tbsp fish sauce, Steamed jasmine rice, to serve, Steamed buk choy, to serve, Steamed baby broccoli, to serve, Spring onion, extra, thinly sliced, to serve.

Ingredients:

  • 1kg Coles Australian Pork Belly, cut into 2.5cm pieces 
  • 4 cups beef stock 
  • 1/2 cup soy sauce 
  • 1/4 cup dry sherry 
  • 20g ginger, peeled, cut into thin strips 
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed 
  • 2 whole star anise 
  • 4 spring onions, thinly sliced 
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar 
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce 
  • Steamed jasmine rice, to serve 
  • Steamed buk choy, to serve 
  • Steamed baby broccoli, to serve 
  • Spring onion, extra, thinly sliced, to serve 

Instructions

  1. Cook the pork in a large saucepan of boiling water for 5 mins. Drain.
  2. Place the stock and half the soy sauce in a large saucepan. Add sherry, ginger, garlic, star anise, spring onion and 2 tbsp of the sugar. Bring to the boil, stirring until sugar melts. Add pork to the soy sauce mixture. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 45 mins or until pork is tender.
  3. Transfer pork to a plate lined with paper towel. Heat a frying pan or wok over medium-high heat. Add fish sauce, remaining soy sauce and remaining sugar. Stir-fry for 2 mins or until sugar dissolves. Add pork and cook for 5 mins or until sauce caramelises.
  4. Serve pork with rice, buk choy and baby broccoli, sprinkled with extra spring onion.