Classic Home-style Braised Pork (Tender, Melty, and Zero Grease)

My two kids and my wife absolutely love the braised pork I make. When the meat is expensive, I don’t make it much, but when it's cheap, I go ahead and make it, haha 😄. It’s really simple, honestly, very easy. The kids ate a lot for dinner, and they especially love the marinated eggs. My son had lunch at daycare, and when he got home, he ate more braised pork and two marinated eggs 🤣.

Ingredients

800g pork belly
5 eggs
1 star anise
1 green onion
1 piece of cinnamon stick
2 bay leaves
A handful of rock sugar
1/2 tablespoon cooking wine
Salt to taste
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
2 tablespoons light soy sauce
1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
Chicken essence (or bouillon) to taste
Five-spice powder to taste
Steps for Making Classic Home-style Braised Pork (Tender, Melty, and Zero Grease)
Step 1

My daughter doesn’t eat lean meat, but pure lean pork doesn’t taste as good. This time I bought some premium pork belly for 18 yuan per pound, costing 30 yuan in total. It hurts my wallet 😌

Step 2

Is it premium or what? 😂

Step 3

Cut the meat into cubes, making sure they are evenly sized.

Step 4

Add the meat to cold water, skim off the foam, then cook for just a few minutes—about 3 minutes should be enough.

Step 5

Prepare the spices for the stir-fry

Step 6

Frying pan under the icing sugar, I grabbed a handful, you can see how much meat to order the amount of icing sugar, out of the small bubbles can be under the meat

Step 7

Look, the icing sugar on the color is particularly great, and then under the spices, do not have to stir-fry for a long time, a long time meat on the hard, old, out of the fragrance on the water, is open water

Step 8

Hot water to add enough at once, otherwise the final flavor is diluted, I replaced the casserole, began to stew, casserole heat dissipation slow, every time the casserole

Step 9

These three is I do braised pork must be prepared, red tofu milk can color, a piece can, and then pour a little tofu milk red juice, honey is the meat out of the pot before the dripping, so that braised pork color bright red, slightly sweet, taste is particularly good, the rock sugar is the color with

Step 10

Seasoning: soy sauce is 2, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, half a spoon of oil, rock sugar 5, chicken essence and thirteen spices are the right amount, you can pinch the amount in accordance with the amount of meat to quasi-volume, the right amount of salt, a lot of people are the salt in the last put, I was put ahead of time, I feel that they are flavored to taste, don't put too much salt because of soy sauce are inside the salt and braised meat is not just salty, is slightly sweet

Step 11

This is a picture of the stew for a while, and then turn down the heat a little bit, not the smallest, a little bit bigger than the smallest

Step 12

This is stewed more than 1 point,, almost out of the pot, ready to high heat sauce, be sure not to leave, don't leave, don't leave, don't leave, the sauce process will deepen the color, and then drizzle a little honey, adjusted, plate

Step 13

I don't know what to say. You'll see. Ha, ha.

Step 14

Too soft, too sticky, too flavorful, slightly sweet

Step 15

Take a closer look.

Step 16

Look at these eggs, the color is amazing, I drizzled some of the braised pork sauce on them, perfect, my son ate two more.My son ate two more. He wanted more, but didn't give it to me 🤣

Step 17

Perfect.！

Step 18

Note, this seasoning spoon is large, because braised meat is not fried vegetables, water more pots and pans slowly stewed, with this spoon poured soy sauce soy sauce oil Home version of braised meat (not greasy, soft, glutinous) tips 1. braised meat is actually the most delicious and good-looking is the essence of the five-flower, red and white particularly uniform, fragrant but also not greasy, some meat is not red more, not white more,, do not care about what can be lah 2, the icing sugar coloring than white sugar is too good, the best to use rock sugar 3, red tofu milk in the red currant powder, red coloring is the best and taste good.Icing sugar coloring than white sugar to be too much better, the best use of icing sugar 3, red tofu milk in the red currant powder, red coloring the most beautiful, and the taste is also good, the same, with the tofu milk to do pig's trotters, it is also possible 4, juicing must watch, especially easy to paste the soup thickened at the end of the off-flame drizzle of honey to adjust the uniformity of the dish!