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Pork Belly Steamed with Shrimp Paste

This is always a favorite dish to make whenever I am feeling really lazy. Preparation is quick and simple. And then just chuck it into the steamer and dinner is ready in less than 15 minutes. With preparation and cook time of under 20 minutes, this is really SO EASY LAH! The recipe shown here feeds one, just double up accordingly if you are cooking for more. Soooooo good with a bowl of hot rice and a fluffy omelette!

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Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Serving: 1 (increase portions accordingly if you are cooking for more)

Ingredients:

• 1 small piece of pork belly (150 - 200g)
• 1 Thai chili
• 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger
• 1 teaspoon Shao Xing wine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon corn flour
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 teaspoon Lee Kum Kee shrimp paste

Method

1. Slice pork belly (0.4 - 0.5cm thick)
2. Add Shao Xing wine, sugar and shrimp paste to pork belly. Stir to combine and set aside to marinate for at least an hour.
3. Julienne ginger
4. Cut Thai chili to 0.5cm lengths. Remove seeds if you don’t like it overly spicy.
5. Just before steaming, add 1 tablespoon of water to corn flour to make a cornstarch slurry. Pour into marinated pork belly and stir well to coat.
6. Arrange pork belly into an even thin layer on a steaming plate
7. Scatter julienned ginger and Thai chili over it
8. Cooking time:
• Panasonic Cubie: Steam setting, MEDIUM, 10 minutes
• Stove top: Bring water to boil in a pot and place a trivet / steamer rack in it. Steam pork slices over MEDIUM HIGH HEAT for 10 minutes.
9. When it’s ready, serve with a bowl of steaming hot rice. A fluffy omelette and some blanched veggies will go really well with it.

Notes:

• I sometimes prep my ingredients and marinate the pork the night before if I know I will too lazy to do much cooking after a long day at the office. So it's easy to just assemble everything when I get home after work and pop it into the steamer. You can even steam it in the rice cooker as you are cooking the rice - so it's even faster! Less work and less washing up to do too! Perfect for weekday lazy bums like me!