Pressure Cooker Oriental Braised Pork Belly
Delicious, tender pork belly with so much flavour you'll want to eat it all in one sitting
Equipment
- 1 Pressure Cooker, either stove-top or electric (I used the Ninja Foodi Max)
Ingredients
- 800 g pork belly slices
- 40 ml Kecap Manis approx 45 g most supermarkets have it in the oriental section, with the soy sauce etc, sometimes called Kicap Manis)
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon Shaoxing rice wine most supermarkets have it in the oriental section
- 100 ml water
- 5 star anise
- 200 g mushrooms white or chestnut mushrooms work well, sliced in thin wedges
- 1 red onion sliced in thin wedges, save a handful for serving
Instructions
- Place the pork belly slices in the inner pot and coat well in the kecap manis.800 g pork belly slices, 40 ml Kecap Manis
- Add the soy sauce, rice wine, water and star anise.1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp Shaoxing rice wine, 100 ml water, 5 star anise
- Pressure cook 25 minutes, high pressure, at the end do a Natural Pressure Release (NPR), this means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord.
- Once the float valve has popped back down and the lid is safe to open, stir in the mushrooms and red onion. If you're in a bit of a hurry, you can vent the remaining steam after 10-15 minutes but try not to do it any earlier as it can toughen up the meat.200 g mushrooms, 1 red onion
- Now you have two options:
Sauté
- Sauté to reduce with the lid off.
Air fryer lid
- Use the air fryer lid at 210ºC, check after 10 minutes and continue if necessary. You want it sticky and caramelised if you have time
- Discard the star anise and serve.
Video
Notes
Delicious in wraps, buns, with rice, stirred through noodles, on its own…
This is an amazing way of cooking pork belly as it is melt in the mouth tender after pressure cooking.
Equipment used: Ninja Foodi Max multicooker
Nutrition
Calories: 738kcalCarbohydrates: 10gProtein: 14gFat: 71gSaturated Fat: 26gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gMonounsaturated Fat: 33gCholesterol: 96mgSodium: 334mgPotassium: 398mgFiber: 1gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 16IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 1mg
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