Family Recipe 48 - Savory Braised Pork Belly

Ingredients: Pork belly, dried tofu, cabbage, sweet bean paste (tianmianjiang), salt, sugar, rice wine, soy sauce Instructions: 1. First, boil the pork belly until cooked. Let it cool and slice it. Slice the dried tofu diagonally into large pieces. It's recommended to tear the cabbage by hand into appropriate sizes and wash it (hand-tearing is better, but you can cut it if you don't like the look). 2. Heat oil in a pan and stir-fry the dried tofu and pork belly until fragrant. Once the pork belly is slightly browned, add the dried tofu and continue stir-frying. 3. After stir-frying the dried tofu until fragrant, add the sweet bean paste and stir-fry. Then, season with rice wine, salt, sugar, and soy sauce. 4. Finally, add the cabbage and stir-fry quickly over high heat. It's ready once cooked. If you like crispier cabbage, don't stir-fry it for too long. Some recipes add chili bean paste (doubanjiang), but we don't in my family. Adding doubanjiang makes it a different dish; this one is about enjoying the aroma of sweet bean paste.