Pork Recipes



Method
To prepare skin: In a large bowl, mix flour with water and knead into a smooth dough. Cover the dough with a warm towel and leave to rest for 15-20 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out into a thin sausage shape and cut into pieces, about 7g each. Using a mini rolling pin, roll out each piece into a flat circle.

To prepare filling
: In a mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients and mix thoroughly. Cling wrap and store in the refrigerator until needed.
SIEW LOONG PAU Shanghainese Meat Dumplings

Ingredients
skin

250g Hong Kong flour

120ml water

filling

500g pork loin, minced

50ml ginger and onion juice

100ml superior stock

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp sesame oil

1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt or to taste

1 pinch white pepper powder

50g frozen superior stock, cut into 5g cubes

 


 

dipping sauce

30g ginger, cut into julienne

3 tbsp black rice vinegar

 


To assemble: Fill each dough circle with a heaped tablespoon of the filling and a cube of frozen superior stock.
Seal the edges with 18 pleats.
Steam for 6 minutes. Serve piping hot with shredded ginger and black vinegar.

• To make the superior stock, simmer old chicken, Yunnan ham, pork loin and chicken feet together for 3-4 hours.

Rolled roast pork, stuffed with spinach and mortadella

Ingredients
800 g boned pork loin
150 g frozen spinach
5 slices Italian mortadella
6 tbsp dried chives
4 tsp dried marjoram
8 tbsp olive oil
300 ml red wine
Salt
Pepper, if liked
Kitchen string
500 ml jelly
4 tbsp white vinegar

Method
Thaw frozen spinach putting them directly in a pan with 2 tbsp olive oil and 2 tbsp water. Let them cook, half-covered, over medium heat until cooking juice is very well reduced. Season to taste with salt and let them cool.
Open slice of pork loin over work surface, sprinkle with 2 tbsp dried chives, season to taste with salt; arrange slices of mortadella and then spinach and marjoram. Roll slice of meat and tie roast with kitchen string at 1" intervals.
Put meat in saucepan with remaining olive oil and chives; brown on all sides and then pour in wine and allow to evaporate a little. After few minutes add some hot water. Keep on cooking over gentle heat, half-covered, stirring sometimes, until meat is tender (it may take an hour-and-a-half). If necessary, add water.
Let the roast cool for a night.
The day after prepare jelly adding 4 tbsp white vinegar. Cut roast into slices ½" thick and arrange them on a deep dish. Pour in warm jelly and let dish refrigerate for almost 2 hours before serving.


Betel Leaves with Sour Pork Sausage
 

Ingredients
Sour Pork sausage
1 Lime (skinned and cut into small cubes)
1 inch piece of Ginger cut into fine slices
1 Tsp fish sauce
2 finely chopped Chilies
1 tsp sugar
Betel leaves

Method
To make the sauce mix all ingredients (not the betel leaves or pork) together and leave for around 30 minutes.
Taste and check for seasoning.
To eat take a Betel Leaf, 1 piece of pork and spoon on some sauce, wrap in leaf and eat.


Fried Pork
 

Ingredients
Pork ribs cut into into long pieces
MSG or any type of seasoning
 

Method
Mix cut pork and seasoning (1 - 2 tsps per 500g)
Heat wok to medium heat and add pork.
Cook well until all sides are crunchy.

 


Pork With Basil (Pad Kapow)
 

Ingredients
600g Minced pork
1 Red Onion or Eshallots
Bunch of Kapow Basil
3 or 4 mushrooms, quartered
4 or 5 hot chilies
3 cloves Garlic
Fish Sauce
 

Method
Place Chili and Garlic into a mortar and pestle and pound until you get a rough paste.
Heat wok to medium high heat and add a little oil. Add paste and stir fry for a minute or so. Add pork, cook for about 2 minutes then add mushrooms and some fish sauce.
Check for seasoning and adjust if required. Stir basil through and serve.


Broccoli with Pork
 

Ingredients
300g Lean Pork
1 Large Broccoli head
3 cloves of Garlic (crushed)
100g Mushrooms (quartered)
1 - 2 tbsp Oyster Sauce
1 tpsp Palm Sugar
Water
Dash of Fish Sauce
A small amount of 'Knorr' seasoning (optional)
 

Method
Remove florets from stem and cut into small pieces. Slice remaining stalk thinly (2 - 3mm) lengthways.
Heat wok to medium high heat with about 2 tbsb oil.
Add Pork and crushed Garlic (Knorr if using) and stir fry for 1 - 2 minutes. Add Broccoli, Mushrooms, Sugar, Oyster Sauce, Fish Sauce and stir fry for further minute (add water if needed).
Check for seasoning and serve.


Stir Fried Pork with Beans (Prik Khing moo)
 

Ingredients
500g sliced pork
3 or 4 large snake beans cut into inch long pieces
Prik Khing Curry Paste
Basil and sliced kaffir lime leaves for Garnish
 

Method
Heat wok till very hot and add a little oil.
Add a large tbsp of curry paste and fry for a minute.
Add pork and beans and stir until pork is cooked.
Stir through some basil, sprinkle lime leaves on top.

 


Thai Pork Chops
 

Ingredients
8 (1/2 size) pork chops
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp soy sauce

 



Method
Remove fat from chops.
Mix together garlic, sugar, soy and pork and leave to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Heat pan to medium high with about 3 mm of oil. Add pork, Cook for a minute or two on both sides .
 

 


Deep Fried Pork balls (muu pan kon thod)
 

Ingredients
300g mince pork
1 tbsp thick tamarind paste
2 cloves crushed garlic
1cm piece of finely chopped lemongrass
4 double Kaffir lime leaves finely sliced
1 large tbsp minced chili or 5 chopped chilies
pinch of salt
splash of fish sauce
 

Method
Mix everything together in a bowl.
Form mixture into balls size of a gold ball.
Heat wok to med high with fair amount of vegetable oil and add in pork in batches.
Drain on a paper towel.


Roast Pork with Island Herbs and Nuts

 

Ingredients
1 kg lean boneless leg of pork
    /pork fillet

Ground black pepper

30 ml pine nuts

30 ml almonds, roughly chopped

2 cloves garlic

1 twig rosemary

1 twig thyme

Olive oil

 




Method

Make small incisions in meat in 5/6 places.  Season meat all over with salt and pepper. Toast pine nuts and almonds in dry frying pan.  Mix with crushed garlic, finely chopped herbs and enough olive oil to form a paste.  Preheat oven to 200 degrees and place meat in a small roasting dish with a little olive oil.  Press nut and herb mixture evenly over it to form a crust, pressing well into incisions.  Bake in hot oven for about 40  minutes.  Cover with foil and let rest for about 10 minutes before serving.


Spicy Orange Pot Roast Pork
 

Ingredients
2 kg boneless and fairly lean chunk of leg of pork

4 small slightly bitter but still juicy oranges

A tbsp of coriander seeds, crushed

2 small dried chilies, deseeded and finely chopped

A tbsp of sweet paprika

Salt and pepper

2 cups white wine

Olive oil


Method
Combine seasonings and rub all over meat and let stand for half an hour.  Heat olive oil in round stainless steel dish and brown meat all over.  Grate zest off 2 oranges and squeeze all 4.  Drizzle orange juice over meat.  Sprinkle with zest.  Pour wine into the pan.  Cover with foil and bake at about 180 degrees until cooked through, basting occasionally with pan juices.  Take foil off for the last 10 minutes and let stand for another 10 after out of oven before carving.


Greek Farmhouse Style Pork Sausages

 

Ingredients
1 kg skinless boneless pork shoulder

60 ml port or sweet wine

5 ml black peppercorns, coarsely crushed

3 ml freshly ground black pepper

12 ml ground coriander seed

3 ml ground cinnamon

3 ml whole cumin seeds

10 ml salt

2 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed

Grated rind of one orange

Sausage casings 

 



Method
Mince pork in food processor.  Mix with all other ingredients except casings and leave covered, in fridge over night.  Fill sausage casings using a funnel with a long nozzle.  Put sausage casing on the end of funnel nozzle and ease it off as it fills. Push meat through with handle of a wooden spoon.  Knot end of skin as meat begins to come through nozzle.  When casing is filled, twist into sausages about 15 cm long and knot end. 

Sausages can be stored loosely covered in fridge until required.  Can be fried in olive oil or grilled and served cut into chunks.


Pork Pot-Roast - Greek Style
 
Ingredients
1.5 kg lean boneless pork

2 lemons, salt and pepper

1 onion, finely chopped

3 cloves of garlic, crushed

1 stalk celery; 2 carrots, cleaned & chopped into chunks

250 ml white wine

2 bay leaves
6 whole black peppercorns
3 cloves

125 ml olive oil



Method

Rub meat with lemon juice and season with salt and pepper.  Shape into a neat roll and tie with string. Heat olive oil in heavy pan with lid and brown meat. Add onions and garlic and sauté few minutes. Add rest of vegetables, seasonings and wine. Cover and simmer very slowly until tender, topping up with little more wine to prevent scorching. Let cool slightly before removing string and serve.


Pork with Beans

Ingredients
2 kg pork
1.5 kg small white beans,
    soaked overnight
375 ml tomato juice
1 finely chopped onion
125 ml olive oil or corn oil
Salt, pepper and some soup celery



Method

Put beans in sauce pan with fresh water to cover, boil for 10 minutes and then drain.  Cook in pressure cooker with some soup celery until about half tender.  Remember not to add salt. Drain beans and discard celery.
Heat oil in heavy saucepan and brown meat and onions.  Add tomato juice, salt and pepper and simmer over low heat until meat is nearly done.  Add beans and simmer gently until meat and beans are tender. If you need more liquid, top it up with more tomato juice.  Serve.


Baked Spare Ribs With Special Sauce
 

Ingredients

600g spare ribs

50g peanut butter

50g celery

50g Hong Kong flour

100g water

50g HP sauce

50g sugar

a little salt

100g oil

 

Method
Clean spare ribs and cut them into smaller pieces.
Cook HP sauce with a bit of oil and water. Dish up. Blend the celery.
Place peanut butter, blended celery, salt, cooked HP sauce and sugar in a bowl. Mix well.
Marinate spare ribs with the above mixture for at least one hour. Add flour to the ribs and mix well.
Heat oil in a wok and deep-fry the marinated spare ribs for about three minutes.

Barbecued Pork (Char Siew)
 

Ingredients
Marinade:

1.2kg sugar

55g preserved soybean paste

55g hoisin sauce

20g fermented bean curd (nam yue)

500ml light soya sauce

250ml dark soya sauce

Red dye (optional)

1.5kg belly pork (remove skin)


Method
Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
Mix the marinade ingredients.
Divide pork belly into five strips (about 300g each). Marinate pork belly strips for about 3 hours.
Carefully pierce the marinated pork belly strips vertically with a skewer.
Roast pork belly in the oven for 30 minutes, basting the meat with the marinade every ten
minutes.


Roast Pork (Siew Yoke)
 

Ingredients

3kg belly pork with skin

130g coarse salt

A pinch of five-spice powder

Method
Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
Score the inner pork belly with a sharp knife.
Rub the meat with 30g of coarse salt and the five-spice powder.
Pierce metal skewers through the upper and lower portion of the pork belly to prevent it from shrinking during roasting.
Rub the remaining coarse salt on the skin of the pork belly.
Roast the pork for 45 minutes to an hour.
Halfway through the roasting time, remove the roast pork from the oven and rub off all the salt from the skin. Prick the skin all over with a stainless steel tenderiser needle.
Return the pork to the oven and roast it on high heat until pork is blackened and skin is crispy. Remove from oven and scrape off the blackened part.
Return to oven and continue roasting till done.

 


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