Steamed Pork Belly with Preserved Greens | 烧白

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Step 1

Put pork Belly with skin on in a pot filled with water, add ginger, scallion, Szechuan peppercorn and cooking wine, bring it to boil for 20 minutes; Remove pork from pot and let it cool off. Cut the meat into thick slices (about 3-5 mm think).

Step 2

Slice and dice some garlic, ginger and scallion, cut dried chili with scissors into small segments.

Step 3

Wash preserved vegetables thoroughly with water to get rid of sand/dirt in the package. Repeat this process a few times before we dice it into small pieces.

Step 4

Remove pork belly from the boiling pot and let it cool off. Simply apply a layer of dark soy sauce and some salt on the pork belly; you may poke pork belly skin evenly with a corn holder to get the nice coloring inside.

Step 5

Add adequate amount of cooking oil in a pot on high heat. Once it gets to the right temperature, gently put the marinated pork belly in the oil to deep fry for a few minutes until it turns crispy on the surface (You may want to put the lid on to avoid oil splatter).

Step 6

Remove the pork belly from hot oil and let it cool down in a bowl filled with ice and water for a minute (This is to get a nice and wrinkled pork skin presentation).

Step 7

Simply slice pork belly into 1 cm thick pieces, marinate pork slices with salt, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, light soy sauce, honey and chicken powder. Mix them well and let it sit.

Step 8

Put preserved vegetables in a heated skillet and slowly stir fry for dehydration; Transfer them to a bowl once vegetables dry out. Add some cooking oil in the skillet, simply thrown diced garlic, ginger and red chili in to mix. Further add vegetables in the sauce to stir mix. Season it with a small amount of salt（taste it as you go） and chicken powder.

Step 9

Nicely put and arrange pork belly slices next to each other into a big bowl with pork skin facing down. Add cooked preserved vegetables on the top

Step 10

Put the bowl into a steamer on high heat and steam for 90-120 minutes.

Step 11

Get the bowl out and cover the bowl with a big flat plate and then turn upside down; Remove the original bowl, garnish with scallion, now it's ready to serve.

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