Braised pork ribs are a dish suitable for all ages, boasting excellent color, aroma, and flavor. Mastering this dish makes it a perfect choice for entertaining family and friends. It's an easy and delicious home-style dish that showcases culinary skills. Although it's challenging to make, mastering it brings a great sense of accomplishment! 🥰🥰🥰
Materials
Home-style dish: Braised pork ribs recipe steps
Step 1: Prepare about 500 grams of pork ribs (preferably pork spare ribs or lean spare ribs, as these will taste better when making braised spare ribs).
Step 2: Prepare dried chili peppers, star anise, ginger, rock sugar, scallions, and garlic for later use.
Step 3: Blanch the ribs in boiling water with ginger, garlic, scallions, and a suitable amount of cooking wine for about 5 minutes.
Step 4: Heat a wok and pour in an appropriate amount of oil. Add garlic, scallions, ginger, star anise, dried chili peppers, and rock sugar in that order, and then stir-fry until fragrant.
Step 5: After stir-frying, add the ribs to the pot, then add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and cooking wine. Stir-fry, then add boiling water. Once boiling, reduce heat to low and simmer for about 40 minutes. (It's important to use boiling water; this will make the meat firmer and tastier, preventing it from becoming dry.) Note that dark soy sauce is used for coloring. If using two tablespoons of light soy sauce, use one tablespoon of dark soy sauce. Don't add too much, otherwise the ribs will turn black.
Step 6: After stewing the ribs for 40 minutes, add a small amount of white sugar to enhance the flavor, then turn up the heat to reduce the sauce.
Step 7: Plate the dish and sprinkle with a suitable amount of white sesame seeds for garnish.
Tips for making braised pork ribs – a simple home-style dish
1. This batch of pork ribs only weighs about 500 grams, so it was only stewed for 40 minutes. If you have more ribs, extend the stewing time by 20 to 40 minutes. 2. Light soy sauce is for flavor, dark soy sauce is for color, and rock sugar is also for color. Therefore, don't add too much dark soy sauce, otherwise the ribs will turn dark. 3. Before reducing the sauce over high heat, you can add a small amount of white sugar to enhance the flavor.
