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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Braised pork with fresh bamboo shoots is always one of the favorite dishes in family meals, due to its delicious flavor that goes well with rice. Join TasteVN and follow Pé Nam into the kitchen and try making these 2 delicious braised dishes!
Ingredients for Braised Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoots Serves 4
Pork belly 700 gr Fresh bamboo shoots 300 gr Garlic 4 cloves Red onion 3 bulbs Cooking oil 2 teaspoons Chili powder 1 teaspoon Fish sauce 5 teaspoons Common spices a little (sugar/ monosodium glutamate/ ground pepper)
How to Choose Fresh Ingredients
How to choose good pork
- Good pork has a dry surface, bright red color, slightly firm surface, when pressed you can feel its firmness and elasticity.
- The cut surface of the meat has a bright pink color, with soft, white-pink skin.
- The fat part is light-colored, firm, and has a distinctive meat smell.
- Avoid choosing meat that looks pale, feels slimy to the touch, with dark-colored fat, and shows signs of being mushy or crumbly.
How to choose fresh and delicious bamboo shoots
- You should choose bamboo shoots that are slightly rough in shape, straight, not bent, still fresh, with thin skin, not wilted, and have a characteristic pleasant smell.
- You should not choose bamboo shoots that have a foul smell, the outer skin has an unusual color such as too white or brownish-yellow, the surface has spots, yellow and rotten leaves as they may adversely affect health.
How to prepare Braised meat with fresh bamboo shoots
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Prepare the ingredients
Pork should be washed with diluted salt water, then rinsed clean and cut into small bite-sized pieces, and drained.
Tips for cleaning meat thoroughly, without a foul smell- Method 1: To remove the foul smell of pork, blanch it in boiling water with 1 – 2 teaspoons of salt, then rinse the meat with cold water 1 – 2 times before cooking.
- Method 2: Alternatively, you can blanch the pork in boiling water with a little white wine or vinegar to help eliminate the foul smell from the meat more effectively.
- Method 3: Rub the piece of meat thoroughly with a mixture of salt and lemon juice, then rinse clean to help remove any unpleasant smell.
See details: How to clean meat thoroughly, without a foul smell
Bamboo shoots should be washed clean and sliced thinly. Garlic and shallots should be peeled, washed, and crushed.
Put the garlic and shallots into a bowl and mix well with 1 teaspoon of pepper, 1 teaspoon of chili powder, 4 teaspoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of monosodium glutamate, and 5 teaspoons of fish sauce.
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Cook the meat with bamboo shoots
To prevent the bamboo shoots from being bitter, you need to boil a pot of water and add the bamboo shoots, boil for about 5 minutes from when the water starts to boil, then remove the bamboo shoots, rinse again, and let them drain.
Add the boiled bamboo shoots, sliced pork, and the seasoning mixture of garlic and onion prepared in step 1 into the pot, mix well, and let it rest for about 15 minutes for all the flavors to absorb.
Place the pot with bamboo shoots and meat on the stove, turn on high heat, stir until the meat is seared, then add 120ml of water, stir well, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for another 15 minutes, season to taste, and turn off the stove.
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Final product
The bamboo shoots absorb the fat from the pork, making them crispy and sweet, combined with the tender pork that is rich in flavor, along with a bit of spiciness from the chili powder, all harmonizing together in the extremely delicious Fresh Bamboo Shoot Pork dish that goes well with rice.
The above is information on how to make braised pork with fresh bamboo shoots rich in flavor shared by TasteVN. Wishing you success in your cooking!
