Dim sum ribs with salted black beans

Name: Dim sum ribs with salted black beans
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 2 tsp sesame oil; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 2 cloves garlic, crushed; 2 red chillies, chopped, plus some fine slices; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbsp Chinese rice wine; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 2 tbsp oyster sauce; 2 tbsp salted black beans; 300 g spare ribs, cut across the bone into 4cm sections (get the butcher to do this); 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

No stonking great ribs here, this is more about soupcons of dim sum flavour sucked from the skimpiest meat-hugging bone. Easy and delicious.

Ingredients

1 tsp salt
1 tbsp caster sugar
1 tbsp

Asia
Singapore
Main course
South East Asia

Method

Combine all the ingredients except the spare ribs and red pepper in a bowl, toss the spare ribs in the mixture and leave overnight, covered and refrigerated, to bathe. Place them with their bath of flavours in a shallow dish set in a steaming tray, then steam for 20 minutes. Slip the red pepper pieces around the ribs in the steamer, carry on steaming for a further 5 minutes, or until cooked, th