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Steamed five-spice pork with taro recipe (fen zheng rou)
Created by Philip Shijing Liao
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Serves 4
You will need to marinate the pork overnight.
Ingredients
1kg pork belly, rind removed, cut into 3cm-wide pieces160ml (⅔ cup) soy sauce
80ml (⅓ cup) fermented rice wine* or Chinese rice wine (shaoxing)
1 tsp sesame oil
45g (⅓ cup) glutinous (sweet) rice*
2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
600g (about 1 large) taro, peeled, halved, thickly sliced
Coral lettuce leaves, thinly sliced long red chilli, spring onions cut into 5cm lengths, and steamed rice, to serve
Preparation
Toss pork in a bowl with soy, rice wine, sesame oil and 1 tsp salt. Refrigerate overnight. Drain, reserving 60ml marinade.Heat a frying pan over medium heat. Add rice and five-spice, and stir for 3 minutes or until fragrant and rice starts to change colour. Cool, then coarsely grind in a small food processor. Combine with pork and reserved marinade.
Place a large steamer over a saucepan of simmering water over low heat. Arrange the taro slices in a single layer around the base and side of a deep 19cm pie dish or another similar dish. Top with the pork mixture and place the dish inside the steamer. Cover and cook for 2½ hours or until pork is meltingly tender.
Remove the dish from the steamer and cover with lettuce leaves. Invert onto a plate, scatter with chilli and spring onions, and serve with steamed rice.
* Fermented rice wine, available from Chinese food shops, is a traditional Hakka ingredient.
* Glutinous (sweet) rice, from Asian food shops, is a starchy short-grain rice that becomes sticky when cooked.
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