Description
Incredibly rice and flavorful, Lu Rou Fan or 滷肉飯 is an iconic one-bowl Taiwanese dish that combines melt-in-your mouth braised pork belly simmered in savory sauce over steamed rice.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1.5 lb pork belly, cut into strips
- 1 cup fried shallots (homemade or store-bought)
- 3 clove garlic, minced
- 3 tbsp light soy sauce
- 3 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp cooking wine
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp five spice powder
- 1 tsp white pepper
- 600cc (about 2.5 cup) water
- 6 hard boiled eggs (optional)
Instructions
- Cut pork belly into 1″ strips. Then mince garlic.
- In a large pot, cook pork belly over medium-high heat until brown.
- Add minced garlic and cook for 1 minute.
- Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, oyster sauce, sugar, five spice powder, and white pepper into the pot. Cook until sauce is well incorporated.
- Add about 600cc of water and bring it to a boil.
- Add hard boiled eggs and fried shallots. Bring to a boil again, then reduce to a gentle simmer.
- Cover the pot with a lid and let it simmer for about 1 to 1.5 hour, until the meat is very tender. Check the meat at 1 hour mark. You can continue to braise the meat in low heat to make it more tender.
- Remove the lid and simmer for another 10 minute until the sauce is thickened.
- Serve over steamed rice and enjoy!