Treated clean pork belly in a pot, add a few slices of ginger and the right amount of water, boil and then cook for about 15 minutes to remove the fishy smell of pork belly, fish out the pork belly rinsed with lukewarm water, cut into cubes to be used. Boiled pork belly soup water poured without using.
The second step, stewed pork belly
Cut into chunks of pork belly into a clean pot, add water to boil over medium heat and cook for about 1 hour, cook to the pork belly can be easily penetrated with chopsticks, fish out of the drain can be.
If you use a pressure cooker to cook pork belly, wait for the pressure cooker to steam into a small fire, cook for another 5 minutes to turn off the fire, so that the pork belly to stay in the pot to simmer for about 15 minutes, fish out the pork belly can be drained.
This cooked pork belly will not be too soft, not too old to bite, the taste of soft and strong, a little cooled and then according to the cooking needs of the knife, can be used to make a variety of dishes.
The third step, improve the quality
If you want to cook the pork belly more palatable, more white color and looks rich and full, then continue to use the following two ways to continue to deal with (choose one on the line).
1, the cooked pork belly into a sufficient amount of cold water, soak for 2 to 3 hours, so that the belly can fully absorb the water and swell.
2, boiled pork belly cut into strips, put in a steaming bowl, add the original broth of stewed pork belly, put into the boiling steamer to steam for about 10 minutes.
Experience sharing:
1, we stewed pork belly is to make other dishes, so the whole process of stewing do not need to add seasoning, but also can not put salt, put salt out of the cooking of pork belly will become old and hard, like cattle like chewing.
2, stewed pork belly the rest of the soup don't throw, add some green leaves and other side dishes, and then add the right amount of salt and pepper seasoning, immediately into a pot of delicious pork belly soup
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