Braised Pork by Lily Chua

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Recipe:

Recipe
4 eggs hard boiled, pork belly about 500 gm, 1 star anise, 1 stick cinnamon, dark soy sauce 2-3 tbsp ( I used tai hua), 2 tbsp light soy sauce ( I used Kikkoman), 1 tbsp hua tiao jiu, ginger about 7 slices, 35 gm garlic with skin, rock sugar 25 gm. Chinese mushrooms about 9 pcs soaked till soft and cut into 2. Water min 500 ml and more

Method
Boil 4 eggs till hard boiled
Peel them and set aside
Use about 500gm of pork belly and brown on all sides

Prepare rock sugar 25gm, 7 slices of ginger, 25gm garlic smash with skin on, 1 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick

Fry in oil till fragrant (except rock sugar)

Fry pork with the spices n mix well

Then add rock sugar n soaked dried mushrooms

Add 2 -3 tbsp. dark soy sauce and 2 tbsp Kikkoman soy sauce and 1 tbsp hua tiao jiu and fry with pork mix well

Add hard boiled eggs and 250 ml water

Turn to high heat cover n let sauce boil

After 5 mins turn the eggs to colour them . Cover n cook 5 mins more

Transfer all into a claypot add 250 ml water n cover and continue cooking

Please remove the eggs after 20 mins Or else it will "explode" - it happen to one of my eggs

Continue cook about 20 mins more
Once a while stir n add more water

Off the fire

Before serving -

remove the pork and slice into desired thickness

Eggs can slice into halves

Eat with rice

Credits to the Straits Times recipe previously taken from SoShiok