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How to Prepare Perfect Cantonese dry aged pork belly

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Jesse Dean
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Cantonese dry aged pork belly

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cantonese dry aged pork belly. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Cantonese dry aged pork belly is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Cantonese dry aged pork belly is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cantonese dry aged pork belly using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cantonese dry aged pork belly:
  1. Make ready 4 lbs pork belly cuts
  2. Take 150 ml San-J Organic tamari sauce
  3. Prepare 50 ml Lee kun kee dark premium soy sauce
  4. Get 50 ml Shaoxin rice wine
  5. Prepare 50 ml Rum
  6. Prepare 120 g brown sugar
  7. Take 60 g sea salt
  8. Prepare 20 g Sichuan peppercorn

This Chinese cured pork belly recipe is truly a family treasure-my. This is once a year holiday tradition for most of wives in China in old days. Dry cured meat usually takes about a whole month to mature in cold dry winter days where no direct sun is allowed. Once cured belly or ham is aged to perfect, they are rinsed and steamed.

Steps to make Cantonese dry aged pork belly:
  1. In a large cast iron wok, sauté sea salt until light brown on low heat. Add Sichuan peppercorn and keep stir until aromatic for about 1 min.
  2. In a medium sauce pan, dissolve toasted salt and Sichuan peppercorn and brown sugar in heated Soy sauce mixer. Once dissolved, turn off the stove and wait until the mixture cools down. Add wine and liquor.
  3. Marinate pork belly slice in the brine juice for 48 hours at room temperature.
  4. Hang the belly up to dry cure for at least 30 days and it could be up to 2 months depends on the thickness of your cuts. During cold dry days, it's best to hang them outside in a place where there's no direct sun. During raining warming winter days, it's all right to hang in heated room as long as the air is not too moist. Refrigerator curing may work but I think it will take longer time and it will use up your storage space.
  5. The left piece is dry cured for 48 hours and the right piece was just hang right after marination.
  6. All seasonings I used.

Dry cured meat usually takes about a whole month to mature in cold dry winter days where no direct sun is allowed. Once cured belly or ham is aged to perfect, they are rinsed and steamed. Great to eat on top of rice or sauté with literally. Cantonese Roast Pork Belly, or siu yuk can be found hanging in many Chinatown restaurant windows but you can make this crispy roast pork belly recipe at home! Cantonese Roast Pork Belly, or siu yuk (bah…my Cantonese is terrible…slash nonexistent), is getting added to our compendium of roast.

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