{"id":1617,"slug":"hongshao-rou-red-braised-pork-belly","title":"Hongshao Rou (Red Braised Pork Belly)","description":"Hongshao rou (lit. red-cooked meat) is a traditional Chinese pork dish. It is a very popular homemade dish, but it is rarely found in Western restaurants. Often a family's exact recipe is a secret and passed down the generations. It consists of pork belly in a thick, sweet, dark sauce, simmered for a long time to soften the normally tough meat. Frequently other meats such as tripe or beef tendon are used in addition to the pork.","ingredients_raw":["700 g pork belly, cubed","3 tbsp vegetable oil","2 tbsp white sugar","350 ml pork or chicken stock","1 tbsp minced ginger","2 tbsp dark soy sauce","50 ml Shaoxing rice wine","3 star anise pods","4 small spring onions, sliced"],"ingredients_norm":["pork belly","vegetable oil","white sugar","pork or chicken stock","ginger","dark soy sauce","shaoxing rice wine","star anise pod","green onion"],"steps":["In a medium saucepan, over high heat, heat the oil and sugar together until the sugar melts and turns brown.","Add the cubed pork to the sugar and oil and brown all over.","Reduce the heat, add the stock, ginger, star anise, soy sauce, and Shaoxing wine to the pan.","Cover tightly and simmer for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent it burning at the bottom.","Remove the lid and add the spring onions.","Boil the sauce until only a thick, dark gravy is left.","The dish may be served now, but if possible, refrigerate for a day to allow the flavours to develop.","Serve with rice, garnish with sliced spring onion."],"categories":["Pork recipes","Chinese recipes","Recipes using pork","Recipes using star anise","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using fresh ginger","Recipes using chicken broth and stock","Recipes using pork broth and stock","Recipes using vegetable oil"],"prep_time_minutes":15,"cook_time_minutes":60,"total_time_minutes":75,"servings":"4 Servings","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hongshao_Rou_(Red_Braised_Pork_Belly)","source_ref":"4512050","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Hongshao_Rou_(Red_Braised_Pork_Belly)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"dda6c0b3fefdfd39f72836aff56471c26277f138cd466da298a0939df387c81a","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/hongshao-rou-red-braised-pork-belly"}