Hakka Steam Pork With Yam Recipe

This is one of the most classic Hakka dish of all. No doubt the process to prepare and cooking this dish is complicated and time consuming, but it worth all the effort when dish is served on the table.
     

      Ingredients               

  • Pork (belly part) - 1 kilograms

  • Yam - 500 grams

  • Small onions (chopped) - 4 pieces

  • Garlic - 4 pips

  • Fermented red bean curd - 2 pieces

  • Water - 1 liter

 

      Seasoning

  • Dark soy sauce - 2 tablespoons

  • Five spice powder - ½ teaspoon

  • Oyster sauce - 1 tablespoon

  • Light soy sauce - 1 tablespoon

  • lettuce leaves- 5 pieces

  • pepper and sesame oil to taste

      Method

  • Clean and peel yam. Cut into thick pieces then deep fried in hot oil until it turn golden in color.

  • Bring 1 liter of water to boil and add whole piece of pork in and cook for 20 minutes. Dish out and set aside. Keep stock.

  • Prick holes all over the pork skin then deep fried in hot oil until pork skin firm up and crispy. Drain oil and soak in stock again to soften then cut into thick pieces.

  • Heat up 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, stir fry chopped onions, garlic and fermented red bean curd until fragrant. Add pork and yam in and mix well with the gravy.

  • Add stock and seasoning, simmer until gravy thicken, dish up and leave to cool.

  • Arrange pork and yam alternately in a big bowl together with gravy and steam with high heat for 40 minutes.

  • When serve , invert onto a serving plate lined with lettuce and add few drops of sesame oil on top.

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