Chinese

Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork)

Name: Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork)
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 lb pork belly; 1 leek; 2 tbsp doubanjiang; 2 garlic cloves; 1 tsp grated ginger; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp neutral oil; 4 cups water

Ho Yuk-lan @guangzhou_popo

Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb pork belly
1 leek
2 tbsp doubanjiang
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp neutral oil
4 cups water

How to cook it

Simmer the pork belly whole in the water 25 minutes until just cooked through but still firm, then drain and cool.
Slice the cooled pork belly into thin pieces and cut the leek into wide diagonal slices.
Heat the oil in a wok over medium-high heat and fry the pork slices until the edges curl and turn golden, about 3 minutes.
Push the pork to the side, add the doubanjiang, garlic and ginger and fry 30 seconds until the oil turns red and fragrant.
Add the leek and stir-fry 2 minutes until just softened.
Toss everything together with the soy sauce and sugar and cook 1 more minute before serving.

Watch how to cook Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork)

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Serve it with

A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic)
  
  10 min
Something to sip
- Dong Gua Pai Gu Tang (Winter Melon and Pork Rib Soup)
  
  75 min
What it is eaten with
- Bai Mi Fan (Chinese Steamed White Rice)
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Pao Cai (Sichuan Salt-Brine Pickled Vegetables)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 630 kcal
Protein: 10 g
Carbs: 3 g
Fat: 64 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 630 mg
Saturated fat: 22 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Hui Guo Rou (Twice-Cooked Pork) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.