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Braised Pork Belly and Pickled Mustard Green
This is one of many Chinese dishes that seems to disappear fast, especially from fancy Chinese restaurants. The only places that I think still serve this is the hole-in-wall restaurants selling Teo Cheo porridge, which is pretty hard to come by in Jakarta, maybe a couple of restaurants left in the Kota (old city) area? Luckily, making this at home is pretty easy, so I can have this whenever I feel like walking down the memory lane. ♥
Pickled mustard green is sold under the name of kiam chai or sayur asin in Indonesia. The first comes from Chinese Fujian dialect and the second is an Indonesian name, both means salted vegetable in respective language. They can be found in vacuum sealed bags in grocery stores, and you can also get them by weight in wet markets.
Braised Pork Belly and Pickled Mustard Green
Ingredients
- 500 gram pork belly (Indonesian: daging sam can)
- 250 gram pickled mustard green (Indonesian: kiam chai / sayur asin)
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 6 shallot, peeled and cut into quarters
- 2 inch ginger, peeled and bruised
- 6 red chilies, cut into thin slices diagonally
- 1 tomato, cored and cut into small pieces
- 3 cup water
- 1 1/2 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Bring a pot of water to boil and blanch the pork belly for 2 minutes. Drained and cut into 1 cm slices. Set aside.
- Wash the pickled mustard green under cold running water to remove the pickling juice. Drain and cut into small pieces. Heat a frying pan and dry frying the pickled mustard green until dry and wilted. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a wok and sauté shallot and ginger until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Add the pork belly and stir for about 3 minutes, until some oil from the pork belly is released and the wok looks oilier.
- Add the chilies, tomatoes and stir for 1 minute. Pour the water and bring to a boil.
- Return the pickled mustard green into the wok and bring to another boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Season with sugar and salt. Turn off heat and serve with a bowl of white rice or plain porridge.
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So glad to have found your website. I have tried a few of your recipes and all tastes yummy. Looking forward to try the rest.
I'm so happy you love my recipes, Yuen.
I've cooked it many times. It's soooo delicious.. Greetings from Germany.
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