Red Braised Pork Belly Recipe by Albert Zhou ’22

Ingredients

  • Pork belly with skin
  • Oil
  • Rock sugar
  • Shaoxing cooking wine
  • Soy sauce
  • Dark soy sauce
  • Water
  1. Cut pork into cubes
  2. Boil water in a pot
  3. Place pork into boiling water for a few minutes until white
  4. Add one part sugar and two parts oil into separate pot
  5. Add pork to pot with melted sugar and oil
  6. Cook until pork is reddish-brown on medium heat
  7. Turn heat to low and add cooking wine, soy sauce, and dark soy sauce to taste (be liberal with the cooking wine and add dark soy sauce incrementally)
  8. Make sure that the sauce almost covers the pork
  9. Cook with the lid on for 45-60 minutes, stirring occasionally and adding water if it dries
  10. Once pork is cooked, take off lid and keep cooking on high heat until the sauce evaporates or the pork absorbs it
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