Steam Pork With Moy Choy Recipe (Mei Chai Kou Rou)

 

     

      Ingredients

  • Pork (belly part) - 500 grams
  • Mei cai or Moy choy (sweet and salty each half) - 400 grams
  • Garlic - 5 cloves
  • Light soy sauce - 3 tablespoon
  • Sweet rice wine - 5 tablespoons
  • Sugar - 2 tablespoons
  • Oyster sauce - 1 tablespoon
  • Dark soy sauce -1 tablespoon
  • Water - 200 ml

Method

  • Cook pork in boiling water for 20 minutes, remove from heat and let cool completely, then use a fork to prick holes evenly on the skin. Rub with 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of sweet rice wine and marinate for 2 hours.
  • Deep fry marinated pork in hot oil (with skin face down in oil) until golden brown. Remove and soak in cold water for 10 minutes then cut into thick slices and arrange neatly in a steaming bowl.
  • Clean mei cai well, soak for at least 45 minutes and cut into fine pieces.
  • Heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in pan, add 5 cloves of garlic together with mei cai and stir fry until aromatic.
  • Add the balance of  sweet rice wine, sugar, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce and water, bring to boil and cook with low heat for 20 minutes until gravy almost dry up.
  • Arrange mei cai on top of  pork and steam with high heat for 3 hours until pork are tender.
  • Turn the steaming bowl onto a plate and serve.

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