Red-Cooked Pork with Frizzled Ginger

Name: Red-Cooked Pork with Frizzled Ginger
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 10 fresh cilantro stems (reserve leaves for garnish); 237 milliliters Chinese rice wine or medium-dry Sherry; 2 kilograms boneless pork butt, shoulder, or blade roast, tied; 2 garlic cloves, smashed; 2 (1-inch-thick) pieces fresh ginger, smashed; 6 servings Accompaniment: frizzled ginger; 118 milliliters Chinese rock sugar or packed light brown sugar; 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh orange zest; 1 bunch scallions, white parts smashed and greens reserved; 237 milliliters soy sauce; 1 liters water; 2 whole star anise

Red-Cooked Pork with Frizzled Ginger might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 6. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 1260 calories, 56g of protein, and 101g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 30% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up star anise, water, garlic cloves, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the water you could follow this main course with the Watermelon-Peach Slushies as a dessert.

Instructions

Stir together water, soy sauce, wine, rock sugar, white parts of scallions, ginger, garlic, cilantro stems, zest strips, and star anise in a deep 6- to 8-quart heavy pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes.

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Star Anise

Green Onions

Soy Sauce

Cilantro

Garlic

Ginger

Sugar

Water

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Add pork, then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer gently, turning pork over every 30 minutes, until very tender, 4 to 4 1/2 hours. Cool pork in cooking liquid, uncovered, about 1 hour, then chill, covered, at least 8 hours.

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Pork

Preheat oven to 350°F.

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Transfer chilled pork to a clean cutting board, then remove string and cut meat across the grain into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Arrange pork in overlapping slices in a 13- by 9-inch glass or ceramic baking dish.

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Meat

Pork

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Discard fat from cooking liquid and reheat liquid over low heat until warm, then pour through a sieve into a bowl (discard solids).

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Bowl

Transfer 2 cups cooking liquid to a 1-quart saucepan, reserving remainder for another use. Bring to a simmer, then pour over pork. Cover dish tightly with foil and heat in middle of oven until heated through, about 30 minutes.

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Pork

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