Red-Cooked Pork

[BettyK]

Red-Cooked Pork

Recipe adapted from Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's "Chinese Kitchen".

• 3 lb pork shoulder
  
• 1/2 c dark soy sauce
  
• 1/4 c + 2 Tbsp sugar
  
• 2 whole star anise
  
• 1 cinnamon stick
  
• 2 scallions, trimmed and cut into 3-inch lengths
  
• 1 one-inch thick ginger, peeled and sliced
  
• 1/4 c Shao-Hsing wine or dry sherry
  
• Enough cold water to cover the meat - abt 4 cups
  

You can either blanch the meat in water for 5 mins then rinse or brown the meat like any roast. Then put it in the clay pot with all the ingredients plus enough water to cover the meat. Bring to boil and then let simmer until done about 3 hours or so. Turn the meat about every hour. I usually bring the liquid to a boil and then put it in a 300 deg oven.

Note: I've tried once with orange peel and didn't care for the bitterness so I leave it out.

Keywords: Main Dish, Easy, Pork, Chinese

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