Red-Braised Pork with Potatoes Recipe - Sissi

Red-Braised Pork with Potatoes Recipe 

Introducing:

Red-Braised Pork Potatoes is one of the southeast of China traditional food. It is a hot food and it use pork belly, so the key is this kind of meat because pork belly prefect combines the lean and fat meat. The dish tastes sweet and sour. 

Yield:3~4 servings/ start to finish: 60 minutes 

Ingredients:
Pork belly 1 pound 
2 mediums potatoes
3/4 inch piece fresh ginger, sliced 3/4
2 star anise 
2 piece small cinnamon sticks 
2 dried red chilies 
1 1/2 teaspoons salt 
2 tablespoons sugar (using crystal sugar is better )
1 tablespoons Soy sauce 
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce 
1 tablespoons Shaoxing wine (you also can use some strong alcohol)
2 tablespoons oil 
Fewer scallion greens 

Direction:
1. Plunge pork belly into a pan of boiling water and simmer until partially cooked (3-4 minutes). Remove and cut into bite-size chunks. 
2. Heat oil. Pour the ginger,star anise, small cinnamon sticks, red chilies and fry, until the flavor goes out (30 seconds) . Add the pork belly and fry 1.5 minutes. Add potatoes.Add soy sauce, dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine and sugar to continue to fry 2 minutes.
3. Add enough watch to cover pork belly. Bring to a boil, then simmer (40-50 minutes).
4. Take out and add scallion greens on the top.