Mom’s Chinese Braised Pork Belly (“hong shao rou”)

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds pork belly can also try this with pork shoulder, pork ribs, or a mix of two
• 1 tablespoon oil my mom uses olive or grapeseed
• 1 inch ginger chunk of, roughly peeled and sliced
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar or Chinese rock sugar
• 2 tablespoons Shaoxing cooking wine
• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
• 1/4 cup hot water + approximately 2 to 3 cups hot water, boil in a kettle or heat it up in microwave
• 3 cloves garlic optional
• 3 cloves star anise optional
• hard boiled eggs peeled
• potato or taro cubes

Nutrition

• Calories : 970 calories
• Carbohydrate : 11 grams
• Cholesterol : 120 milligrams
• Fat : 94 grams
• Fiber : 1 grams
• Protein : 17 grams
• SaturatedFat : 33 grams
• Sodium : 960 milligrams
• Sugar : 5 grams