Simplified Recipe: Pork Belly w/ Preserved Vegetables (Mei Cai) 梅菜扣肉
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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. My grandparents were from Meixian formerly known as Meihsien, a district of Meizhou City, in northeastern Guangdong Province, China. What about yours?
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Ingredients:
Serves 6 – 8 pax
Ingredients for pork belly blanching step
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420g of pork belly
1 thumb size ginger – sliced
1 teaspoon of white peppercorn
1.5 teaspoons of salt
1 piece of cinnamon bark
1 piece of bay
2 pieces of star anise
1/2 teaspoon of cloves
Marinade ingredients
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2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
2 tablespoons of low sodium light soy sauce
1.5 tablespoons of Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing Huatiao wine)
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 tablespoon of sesame oil
1/2 cup of water
Other ingredients
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3 – 4 cloves of garlic
300g of mei cai / preserved vegetables
1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce (to marinate cooked pork)
Cornstarch solution (as sauce thickener)
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Granite Wok Pan
Cooking oil
Cast Iron Wok
Oyster Sauce
Peanut oil
Light soy sauce
Dark soy sauce
Cinnamon bark
White peppercorn
Cloves
Bay leaf
Star anise
Sesame Oil
Shaoxing wine aka Chinese cooking wine
Preserved Veg (Mei Cai)
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