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Slow Cooker Braised Pork Belly

Ingredients

  • 2 kg belly pork cut into small pieces
  • 2 thumb size pieces of ginger
  • 5 star anise
  • 8 tbsp dark soya sauce
  • 8 tbsp Shao Xing rice wine or cooking sherry if you can’t get that
  • 5 tbsp sugar or to taste
  • 5 cloves of garlic don’t need to peel
  • 1 head of broccoli

Instructions

  1. Boil the pork in a pot of water for about 15 minutes and skim off the scum.
  2. Transfer pork into the slow cooker and add in all other ingredients
  3. Cook on high for about 1 hour and turn it down to low for a further 3. If you want to leave it all day, just bring it to a boil and turn it down to low for up to 8 hours.
  4. After 4 hours, the fat would have rendered down and the meat is tender.
  5. You can test for seasoning at this point and add more soya sauce or sugar as needed.
  6. Cut the broccoli into florets and steam when ready to serve. I like to decorate my serving bowl with broccoli as the bright green is a nice contrast to the bowl of meat.
  7. Serve with hot steamed rice.

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