There are many home-cooked methods for steaming pork in Northeast China. Each family’s method is different, but the general steps are actually the same. Let’s take a look at what methods are available.

Method 1

Ingredients

1 kilogram of pork belly, pepper, aniseed, ginger, onion, garlic, soy sauce, and salt.

Method

1. Wash the pork belly, put it into a pot, add water (to cover the meat pieces) and bring to a boil. Use a slotted spoon to remove any foam floating in the pot.

2. Then add the prepared onion segments, ginger slices, peppercorns, and aniseed to the pot, and cook slowly over low heat.

3. Don’t overcook the meat, just poke it with chopsticks until it can be inserted into the meat.

4. Take out the cooked meat, let it cool, and cut into slices about 6 mm thick.

5. Place the meat slices in a large bowl, pour in soy sauce, about 2 taels will be enough, and finally sprinkle a large amount of minced garlic on the meat.

6. Then steam in the drawer for about 20 minutes.

7. After taking it out of the pot, use chopsticks to flip it up and down to mix the meat and soy sauce, and it is ready to eat.

Method 2

Ingredients

One pork belly.

Accessories

Five slices of ginger, 2 aniseed, 3 green onions, appropriate amount of soy sauce, appropriate amount of salt.

Method

1. Put onions, ginger, aniseed and washed pork belly into a pot and simmer for 40 minutes (appropriate amount of salt, do not add it at the beginning).

2. Take out the cooked pork belly and cut it into thin slices.

3. Arrange the cut pork belly on a plate and put it in the steamer.

4. Pour soy sauce (pour it all over the bottom of the plate) and add some shredded ginger or chopped green onion according to your own taste.

5. Steam for fifteen minutes.

6. Serve.

Method 3

Ingredients

Pork belly, 2 star anise, some peppercorns, 2-3 bay leaves, 1 grass fruit, a small piece of cinnamon , 4-5 slices of ginger, some green onion segments, 3-4 slices of dried hawthorn, some chopped green onion, 2 tsp of pepper powder, 2 tsp of salt, 2 tsp of dark soy sauce, 2 tbsp of light soy sauce.

Method

1. Wash the pork belly and set aside.

2. Boil water in the pot, put the cooking ingredients into the seasoning bag, wait for the water in the pot to boil, put the bag into the pot and cook for two minutes, then put the washed pork belly into the pot In the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour.

3. After the cooked meat has been placed so that it is not hot, cut into thin slices and place them layer by layer into a large bowl or basin that can be placed in a steamer. Sprinkle all the seasonings and chopped green onion on the cooked meat, and put it in Steam in a steamer for 1 hour.

Tips

1. Because my family loves this dish very much, I have to buy at least 2 or 3 pounds of pork belly every time. If there is less meat, the seasoning can be reduced appropriately. quantity.

2. When eating out of the pot, eat the meat soaked in the soup first. The taste is very rich.

3. The process of steaming and boiling meat is to boil water over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook and steam slowly.