Two ways to make Cantonese bitter gourd and southern pork stew:
Method one:
Ingredients:
Main ingredient: 500g pork belly, 1 piece of bitter melon Accessories: appropriate amount of oil, appropriate amount of salt, 2 heads of garlic, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of tempeh
Steps
1. Prepare the ingredients.
2. Cut the meat into pieces and drain.
3. Cut the bitter melon into pieces, wash the black beans, and dice the garlic.
4. Put a little oil in the casserole and add the garlic.
5. When the aroma comes out, pour in the pork belly.
6. Pour in light soy sauce and mix evenly.
7. Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes.
8. Pour in the bitter melon and cook together.
9. Add the washed tempeh.
10. Add appropriate amount of salt.
11. Add appropriate amount of water and cook until cooked.
Method 2:
Ingredients: 200g homemade bacon, 400g bitter melon
Accessories: 2g oil, 1g salt, 10g sugar, 30g Guangdong rice wine, 2g peppercorns, 10g concentrated chicken juice
Steps
1. Prepare the ingredients. Because the pork belly needs to be marinated all day and night in advance, it needs to be prepared in advance.
2. Cut the pork belly into 2 mm thick slices, put it into a seasoning bowl, then add salt, sugar, Sichuan peppercorns and rice wine and mix well. Then wrap it in a plastic bag and seal it, and put it in the refrigerator to taste for 24 hours. Add a little more salt, because there is no need to add more salt in the following steps.
3. This is "homemade bacon" that has been marinated day and night.
4. Clean the bitter melon, remove the white gourd, cut into mahjong pieces and set aside.
5. Pour the concentrated chicken juice into the seasoning bowl and add cold boiled water
(the amount of water should cover all the ingredients). Make a bowl of "chicken soup". spare.
6. Heat the pot over high heat until it is 7 minutes hot, add peanut oil, then add the homemade bacon in step 3 and stir-fry until it changes color.
7. Add the melon pieces from step 4 and stir-fry evenly.
8. Pour in the clear chicken soup prepared in step 5.
9. Stir well, bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes until the juice is reduced, then take it out of the pot.
10. Put it into bowls and tidy up a little.
Tips
When marinating pork belly, Cantonese rice wine can be replaced with Fenjiu for better taste and wine.