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How do you cook pork belly so that it's soft? Why is it so hard?
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Treatment of 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.

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Stewed pork belly

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Cut into chunks of pork belly into a clean pot, add water to a boil and then cook over medium heat for about 1 hour, cook until the pork belly can be easily penetrated with chopsticks, then fish out and drain.

If you use a pressure cooker to cook pork belly, wait for the pressure cooker to steam into a small fire, and then cook for 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.

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This way the cooked pork belly is neither too soft nor too old to bite, the texture is soft and tender and strong, a little bit cooled and then according to the cooking needs of the knife, can be used to make a variety of dishes.

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Enhancing the quality

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If you want your pork belly to be more palatable, whiter, and more plump, continue the process in either of the following two ways (just choose one).

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Put the cooked pork belly in plenty of cold water and soak for 2 to 3 hours to allow it to absorb the water and expand.

Cut the boiled pork belly into strips, put them in a steaming bowl, add the original broth in which the pork belly was stewed, and put them into a boiling steamer to steam for about 10 minutes that