Chinese Spare Ribs

Name: Chinese Spare Ribs
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 3 tsp five-spice powder; ¼ tsp chilli flakes; 2.5-cm/ 1-inch piece of root ginger, peeled and grated; 4 garlic cloves, crushed and finely chopped; 100 ml/ 3½ fl oz sunflower oil; 3½ tbsp liquid honey; 150 ml/ ¼ pt Chinese dark soy sauce (for example, Pearl River); 1 kg/ 2 lb2 oz pork spare ribs

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

The flavour that is most distinctively Chinese is star anise, which is the dominant ingredient in aromatic five-spice powder. You could serve the ribs on their own as a first course, or with steamed rice as a main dish.

Ingredients

1 kg/ 2 lb2 oz pork spare ribs
150

Asia
China
Main course
Starter
Spicy

Method

The day before: chop the spare ribs with a cleaver into 5-cm / 2-inch pieces. In a large bowl, mix together the soy sauce, ginger, five-spice powder, chilli flakes, garlic and 3½ tablespoons of the sunflower oil. Add the rib pieces and toss to coat. Cling-wrap the top and refrigerate for 24 hours, s