扣肉 + nonya sauce long beans

made 扣肉 + nonya sauce long beans  this morning on 4.6.2016. ^^

this my 6th community lunch dish for bathesda community’s newgate learning hub (bread of life). ^^

my 1st for newgate community lunch was on 27.2.2016.

nonya sauce long beans

i did a nonya sauce long beans.

it was very easy to do – just add oil, chopped garlic, cut chilli padi (or chilli oil), fry till fragrant then add cut long beans, fry & add oyster sauce & fish sauce.

i also added some stock, covered & braised the long beans & reduced.

belly pork after 4hrs at 95degC oven

for the belly pork, i added 2 tbsp mirin, 4 tbsp shaoxing cooking wine, 1 heap tbsp sugar, 1 flat tbsp salt.

fry 2 cinnamon stock & 4 star anise in a bit of oil to get the aroma, then add the mix to melt the sugar.

belly pork after 4hrs at 95degC oven

i then put the belly pork (blanched to remove scum) in the marinade then in oven dish in a 95degC oven for 4 hrs.

belly pork after 4hrs at 90degC oven

after pork has cooled, put in fridge, then sliced pork thinly & put in steam oven (or steamer) for 75mins.

i fried lightly the sliced pork adding 2 tsp dark sauce to about 1.4kg pork. dark sauce made it more fragrant.

basically pork is fully done at this step…can be served on table la..

扣肉 + nonya sauce long beans

for the community lunch for eased of transport, i placed the pork & nonya sauce long beans together in one aluminium container.

扣肉 + nonya sauce long beans

while it is a bit unhealthy to serve to the elderly folks, i noticed that they actually liked the dish better than even the deboned chicken dishes i did previously.

more people actually finished their beehoon & noodles & most finished the belly pork on their plates. i asked about 8 persons if the pork was too fat for them, they all replied it was ok & very good la.. ^^

the 4hr 95degC slow braise would have rendered out much of the fat, & this was clearly so as the sauce i drained off the pork after the oven & again after the steam oven were full of fat. but it was i guess still fatty.

c.h.e.f andy