Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pork belly with preserved sweet mei cai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Place the Mei Cai mixture on top of the pork belly slice, and press down gently with the back of a spoon. A decent serving of my Mei Cai Kou Rou counts about. Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables aka Mei Cai Kou Rou in Chinese / Mui Choy Kau Yuk in Cantonese is a notable dish in Hakka cuisine. According to wikipedia, Hakkas are Han Chinese people whose ancestral homes are mainly in the hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan and Guizhou.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pork belly with preserved sweet mei cai using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Belly with Preserved Sweet Mei Cai:

1. Make ready 300 g Pork belly cut into cubes
2. Get 300 g preserved sweet mein cai
3. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
4. Make ready 2 star anise
5. Make ready Few slices of young ginger
6. Take 8 cloves garlic
7. Make ready 6 cloves minced shallots
8. Get 1 tbsp light soy sauce
9. Take 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
10. Prepare 2 tbsp oyster sauce
11. Take 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
12. Prepare 2 tsp sugar

Mei Cai Kou Rou: Recipe Instructions. Put the pork belly in a pot, and cover with cold water. Add the ginger slices and star anise. Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables aka Mei Cai Kou Rou in Chinese / Mui Choy Kau Yuk in Cantonese is a notable dish in Hakka cuisine.

Steps to make Pork Belly with Preserved Sweet Mei Cai:

1. Blanch pork belly with hot water for 5 mins. Cut into desired size. Marinate with 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp dark soy sauce and 1 tbsp Chinese rice wine for 1 hour.
2. Soak the sweet mein cai in water for 2 hours. Wash clean the vegetables.
3. Stir fry all the aromatics until fragrant and add in the sweet mein cai. Stir fry till the mein cai a bit dry and add in pork belly.
4. Continue to toss the ingredients in the wok and add in water just enough to cover the ingredients. Add in all the seasoning and 2 more tbsp of Chinese rice wine. Adjust taste with sugar and salt.
5. When the water starts to boil, cover the lid and set to low medium heat and simmer for 40 minutes. Then add in cornstarch solution, garnish with spring onions and serve.

Add the ginger slices and star anise. Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables aka Mei Cai Kou Rou in Chinese / Mui Choy Kau Yuk in Cantonese is a notable dish in Hakka cuisine. This pork belly with preserved mustard greens (mei cai) is one of the signature dishes of Hakka cuisine and heartiest food in China. It has a lot of similarity with the version that originated from Zhejiang Province. But the main difference is the preserved vegetables.

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