Stewed Pork with Salted Vegetables

Name: Stewed Pork with Salted Vegetables (Mei kan ts’ai shad jou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 star anise; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 tablespoon wine; 5 cups oil; 1 cup salted dried cabbage; 15 oz. pork (bacon with skin on); 5 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 green onions; 2 slices ginger; 15 oz. pork (bacon with skin on)

Mei kan ts’ai shad jou

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

15 oz. pork (bacon with skin on)
5 tablespoons soy sauce
2

Asia
Taiwan
Stew

Method

Cut pork into slices 1-½” wide by 2” long. Marinate in soy sauce for 10 minutes, then deep-fry about 10 seconds over high heat. Remove.
Stir-fry ginger and green onions in 2 tablespoons of oil. Splash with the soy sauce used to marinate the pork, wine, sugar and star anise. Place pork into pan, pour in 3 cups boiling water, and cook for 20 minutes over low heat