Red-cooked pork with chilli jam

Name: Red-cooked pork with chilli jam
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons Chilli Jam; 1 bunch garlic chives, cut into 1 cm/½ in lengths; 8 dried Chinese black mushrooms; 2 litres/64 fl oz Red Braising Stock; 1 X 1 kg/2 lb piece of belly pork, with skin; steamed rice, to serve; vegetable oil, for deep-frying

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Stir

By Christine Manfield

Published 2001

About

Ingredients

8 dried Chinese black mushrooms
1 X 1 kg/2 lb piece of belly pork, with skin

Australian
Oceania
Australia
Main course

Method

Soak dried mushrooms in boiling water to cover for 30 minutes. Remove from water and cut off stems. Discard water.
Meanwhile, cut belly pork into 4 even pieces. Put in a large pot, cover with cold water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 5 minutes, remove from heat and drain meat in colander. Rinse thoroughly under cold water.
Bring stock to boiling po