Chinese Pork Stew Recipe

This stew has a chinese flavour twist with the star anise, ginger and tangerine peel .

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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 1½kg organic pork fillet, chopped into 4cm pieces
  • 400ml dark soy sauce
  • 300ml sunflower oil
  • 90ml water
  • 2 teaspoons unrefined organic sugar
  • 60ml rice wine or sherry
  • 25g ginger, grated
  • 2 medium onions, sliced thinly
  • 4 garlic cloves, chopped finely
  • 5- 6 5mm pieces of dried tangerine peel
  • 2 organic star anise
  • 2½cm organic cinnamon stick
  • ½ teaspoon Szechuan (Sichuan) peppercorns, dry roasted and ground

An easy stew recipe that has lots of different flavours including star anise, ginger, tangerine and sichuan peppercorns. Not spicy hot but very tasty. 

Recipe for 4

Method

01
Put the pork in a bowl with the soy sauce and marinade for 20 minutes.
02
Heat oil in ovenprrof casserole dish and deep fry the pork pieces in batches (keep the marinade soy sauce) until nicely browned and remove. Discard the cooking oil, add the soy sauce from the marinade and all the other ingredients. Cover and cook in 160°C oven for 1½ hours.
03
Serve with plain boiled rice.