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Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice (Lou Fan)
This Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice, or Lu Rou Fan, is comforting, saucy, and full of deep flavor, with tender pork belly simmered in soy sauce, spices, and a hint of sweetness, served over hot rice.
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 15m⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 1h👤 Dana Rao📖 cookwithdana
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●pot
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Chop up pork belly in 1 inch small pieces.
pork belly (skin-on)1 pound
2
Prepare your aromatics. Chop your onion and peel your garlic. Set aside star anise, bay leaves, sliced ginger, and cinnamon (You can place them in a spice bag if you have one!).
bay leaves2
3
Heat pot on medium-high heat. Fry pork belly for ⏱️ 10 minutes.
pork belly (skin-on)1 pound
4
Next, add your rock sugar, onion, garlic, star anise, bay leaves, sliced ginger, cinnamon in the pork belly and fry for ⏱️ 5-10 minutes (on medium heat). Continue stirring.
bay leaves2pork belly (skin-on)1 pound
5
Add salt, shaoxing cooking wine**, dark soy sauce, low sodium soy sauce, boiling water and 5 spice powder. Make sure you scrape the bottom to get all the good bits.
salt1 teaspoondark soy sauce1 tablespoonlow sodium soy sauce3 tablespoonwater (hot water preferred)3 cup
6
Turn heat to high for ⏱️ 10 minutes uncovered. Then, turn heat to low for ⏱️ 35-45 minutes covered.
7
Skim oil and take out star anise, bay leaves, sliced ginger and cinnamon stick. Add in your boiled eggs now(optional).
bay leaves2cinnamon stick1
8
Serve braised pork belly over rice and greens like bok choy!
pork belly (skin-on)1 pound
Nutrition Facts
calories
2634 kcal
fat Content
242 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
4 g
sugar Content
27 g
sodium Content
6536 mg
protein Content
53 g
cholesterol Content
327 mg
carbohydrate Content
46 g
saturated Fat Content
88 g
unsaturated Fat Content
139 g
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