Braised Pork Belly - Dong Po Pork Recipe

Preheat pan/wok with cooking oil.
Shallow fry the sliced garlic to golden and set aside.
Shallow fry the cloves garlic and crushed ginger to aromatic fragrance. Then set aside.
Add rock honey sugar and caramelized at very low heat.
Once rock honey sugar is caramelized, add the fried ginger and garlic.
Then switch to high heat and add soy sauce.
Add water, seared pork belly, red yeast rice, shao xing wine, and half the amount of spring onion.
Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer.
Keep covered and simmer for 75 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring about 1000ml water and 1 tsp of salt to boil.
Blanch the sweet peas and then soak them in a cold bath. Peel sweet peas into half and set aside.
After 75 minutes, use a strainer to remove the ginger, garlic, red yeast rice, and spring onion.
Gently, add the remaining spring onion in as a whole stalk.
Keep covered and simmer for another 10 分钟 until the spring onion softened.
Then remove the spring onion as a whole and set aside.
Further reduce the gravy until thickened.
Into a separated container, set aside the pork belly and the gravy.

With a clean plate, begin rolling the whole softened spring onion into a small circle of 2 inches diameters and place on the plate.
Gently place 1 piece of pork belly on top of the rolled spring onion.
Add 1/4 tsp of cooked red yeast rice on top of the pork belly skin.
Then carefully place 2-3 pieces of fried garlic slice slanted on the red yeast rice.
At the side of the pork belly, gently place 1 half of the sweet peas.
Finish off with 1 tbsp of the gravy on top and serve!