Monday, 13 August 2012

Stewed Pork Belly & Bitter Gourd With Fermented Black Beans 苦瓜焖三层肉

Stewed Pork Belly & Bitter Gourd With Fermented Black Beans 苦瓜焖三层肉

Mouth-watering!
  
SK loves porridge. This dish goes well with rice and  even better with porridge. Add this tasty gravy to the piping hot porridge and............. "mmmm"............you'll  get a wonderful home-cooked meal

 

Ingredients

1 kg bitter gourd
600g pork belly
30g fermented black beans ( Tau See in Cantonese )


Sauce Ingredients

3 Chinese soup spoon oyster sauce
4 Chinese soup spoon black soya sauce
2 tsp salt, or to taste
4 tsp sugar
2 litres water

 Instructions

 


Clean the pork belly and cut into cubes


Cut the bitter gourd length-wise into 2 halves
Remove the seeds and pith
Cut them into sections of 3 cm x 4 cm pieces



Fermented black beans ( Tau see in Cantonese )


Cooking Instructions


1.  Put the pork cubes and bitter gourd pieces into a pot
2.  Add in the fermented black beans
3.  Add in the 2 litres of water
4.  Add in the sauce ingredients
5.  Boil for 1 1/2 hours 
6.  As it boils, skim off the scum that floats to the surface
7.  Switch of the flame after 1 1/2 hours
8.  Dish up


This dish goes very well with porridge

2 comments:

  1. Where does one get fermented black beans? I tried the local Asian grocery and they didn't have them.

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    1. Chinese groceries should stock fermented black beans.

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