In China, every kind of food has a variety of cooking methods, and pork recipes are no different. I remember when I was living in my hometown in Guangxi, I could see pork on the dinner table every day. This is almost our inseparable partner at the dinner table. The Hakka people like to fry the pork separately. Simple ingredients only need simple cooking methods, which preserves the flavor of the pork. My mother was from the Zhuang ethnic group, and she liked to stir-fry pork belly with vegetables. When tasting the delicious pork she cooked, I could also taste the delicious sweetness of vegetables. Either way, I think it is tasty.
Heat the oil in your wok, add the green peppers, stir-fry for 3 minutes. Then remove them, and set aside.
3 green peppers, 2 tsps Caiziyou roasted rapeseed oil
Add the pork belly into the wok, and brown it on low heat. Extract the oil from the fat.
1 pound pork belly (skin on)
When the pork belly is evenly browned (do not cook it to a crisp, it should be tender, not crunchy )remove it from the wok and set aside with green peppers.
We can see that there is a lot of melted fat left in the wok. Let us take out 2/3 and leave 1/3 of the fat in the wok.
Drain ⅔ of the hot fat into a heat proof container. (NOTE: You can save this as lard.)
Heat the remaining fat, add the dried chili peppers and the Sichuan peppercorns to fry until fragrant.
10 Sichuan Peppercorns, 3 xiao mi la (millet) chili peppers
Next, add the bean paste.
2 tsps Pixian Doubanjiang Bean Paste
Add the cooked green peppers and pork back to the wok. Add light soy sauce, minced garlic, vinegar, and sugar.
When frying the pork belly, please be careful not to be splashed by the hot oil. Since we did not remove the skin, the pig skin will splash when it encounters the hot oil.