I believe every family in Northeast China knows how to make this dish. It's a simple and delicious one-pot meal that's easy to prepare, and most importantly, it saves time and effort, providing both rice and vegetables. It's a perfect dish for lazy people.
Materials
Home-style dish | Northeastern-style braised pork ribs with green beans and corn pancakes (piggy blanket) recipe steps
First, make the cornbread dough. Pour cornmeal and wheat flour into a bowl, add yeast and sugar (sugar promotes fermentation). Then pour in warm water (around 40 degrees Celsius) and stir well. PS: The water should not be too cold or too hot. If it's too cold, the yeast won't ferment; if it's too hot, the yeast will be killed.
Shape the dough into a smooth ball like this, cover it with plastic wrap, and set it aside to ferment. Ferment until it has dense air pockets in the center. If you're in a hurry to eat it, you can place it in a warm place to speed up the fermentation process.
Prepare the ingredients for the journey: pork ribs, green beans, potatoes, scallions, ginger, and garlic.
Rinse the pork ribs thoroughly in clean water.
Put the fishy smell in a pot of cold water with some cooking wine and a few slices of ginger to remove it. Once the water boils, take it out.
Prepare the chopped scallions, ginger, and garlic separately.
Prepare some Northeastern-style soybean paste; it's essential for making stews in Northeast China.
Heat oil in a pan, then add chopped scallions, ginger, and garlic and sauté until fragrant.
Pour in the soybean paste. Caution!! Use a lid to shield yourself at this point, as it can splatter quite badly; I got burned!
After stir-frying the soybean paste until fragrant, pour in hot water and then add the pork ribs.
Cook for about 20 minutes, then add green beans and potatoes.
Add dark soy sauce and salt at the same time. The salt should be added earlier to allow the flavors to meld.
Once the green beans are tender, you can place the corn tortillas on top and cook them together.
Simply stretch the dough into long strips and lay them out evenly on top. For an easier option, you can lay it out as a thin pancake, which will cook faster. PS: If you don't want the dough to absorb the broth, reduce the sauce over high heat before placing the dough on top.
When the dough puffs up, it's cooked.
Just eat it all, one bite at a time without making a sound, it's so delicious!
I ate the whole plate, it was just what I wanted!
