Spiced Pork Spare Ribs

Name: Spiced Pork Spare Ribs
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; 2 tablespoons Chinkiang vinegar; fresh chilli sauce, to serve; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) pork spare ribs, cut into single ribs; vegetable oil, for deep-frying; ½ teaspoon shaoxing; ¼ teaspoon sea salt; ½ teaspoon chilli oil; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 1 teaspoon light soy sauce

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Balance and Harmony

By Neil Perry

Published 2008

About

These delicious crisp little ribs have quite a different texture to the other rib dishes in this book. The Sichuan salt and pepper coating really kicks these along and they’re great with a strong chilli dipping sauce.

Ingredients

1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) pork spare ribs, cut into single ribs
1

Asia
China
Main course
Breakfast
Spicy

Method

To make the dipping sauce, combine the caster sugar, sea salt and Chinkiang vinegar with 2 tablespoons water in a small pot and stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool.

Mix the soy sauce, shaoxing, chilli oil and egg together with the ribs and toss to