Hot and sour pork belly is a mouth-watering delicacy that uses pork belly as the main ingredient and is paired with a unique hot and sour seasoning to whet your appetite. The whole dish is bright in color and has a sour and spicy taste, whether it is eaten as an accompaniment to the snack or with rice, it will make you have a lot of aftertaste.
To make this dish, we need to prepare the following ingredients: about 500 grams of pork belly, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 2 tablespoons of chili paste, 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of dark soy sauce (for coloring), salt and sugar to taste, 2 tablespoons of minced garlic, 1 tablespoon of minced ginger, appropriate amount of chopped green onion and peppercorns, and appropriate amount of cooking oil.
During the production process, we need to first wash the pork belly inside and out to remove the odor. Then, blanch the cleaned pork belly in boiling water and rinse it well. Next, put the pork belly in a pot, add enough water, ginger slices and cooking wine, and cook for about an hour until cooked through. Once cooked, the pork belly is cooled and thinly sliced.
In the seasoning process, we mix vinegar, chili paste, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, sugar, minced garlic and ginger together and stir well to form a sauce. Then, we add oil to the hot pan, add the pork belly slices and stir-fry quickly until rolled up, then pour the sauce into the pan and stir-fry quickly and evenly, so that the pork belly can fully absorb the seasoning. Finally, sprinkle with chopped green onion and peppercorn powder, stir-fry evenly and then remove from the pan and serve.
It should be noted that the cleaning of pork belly requires patience and thorough cleaning to remove odors. Also, cook pork belly for too long so as not to become too hard. When seasoning, the amount of chili sauce and vinegar can be adjusted according to personal taste to achieve the best sour and hot taste.
Although the process of making sour and spicy pork belly is more tedious, it is delicious enough to make people willing to put in the effort. The tenderness of the pork belly is perfectly combined with the sour and spicy seasoning, which makes people want to stop. If you find it too troublesome to clean the pork belly, you can also choose to buy the pork belly that has already been processed so that it will be more convenient and faster to cook.