Braised Pork Belly

Soft and Melt in mouth pork belly is what we like. Braised eggs is my kids's favourite.   I have cooked this few time using other blogger recipe.  This time I tried on my own agaration recipe and it is yummy, soft and melt in mouth texture due to few hours of braising.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

About 400g pork belly

1/2 tsp salt

5tbsp dark soya sauce ( Kwong Cheong Thye Superior )

1/2 tsp grounded pepper

1 stick cinnamon

1.5 star anise

1500ml water

1 whole garlic

Method:

1. Marinate the pork belly with dark soya sauce, salt and pepper for minimum 2hrs or overnight.

2. Heat up pot

3. Put in star anise, cinnamon and marinated pork belly in pot and stir fry under medium heat for about 10 mins.

4. Pour in the balance marinates into the pot and water in and let it boil.

5. Lower the fire and let it braise for 2.5 hours.

6. After it has braise for 1.5 hours, add in the whole garlic and let it braise till 2.5 hours.

7. Taste test. You can add some more salt to your own preference.