BACON IN CHINESE RECIPES

Steps:

• In a small pot, add rice cooking wine, soy sauce, ginger, bay leaves, star anises, Sichuan pepper, sugar and cinnamon barks. Bring all the content to a boiling and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes. Move from the heat and cool down completely.
• During this time, slice the pork belly into thin long strips and rinse to remove any dirt. Then dry it with kitchen paper. The meats should be as dry as possible. The water will spoil the pork belly. Place the strips in a air-tight bag. If you use a container, make sure the pork belly is completely soaked by marinating sauce otherwise you need to turn them over every day.
• When the soy sauce mixture is completely cooled down, stir in Chinese Baijiu. Pour the sauce in the bag to marinate the pork belly 3 days.
• Then prepare thick cotton lines and dull kitchen scissor, wrap the line over the scissor and pork through the pork belly around 1/3 from the top. Hang up for air-drying for 5-7 days. After 5-7 days air-frying, the rind becomes quite stiff while the inner side is still soft and white.
• How to keep: you can freeze them in air-tight bag up to 1 month.

Steps:

• Fresh asparagus is always so tempting. When you go to the vegetable market, you can’t help it. Remove the old roots and thick skin. Cut into strips with a knife. The length is 5-6 cm. Sprinkle a little salt and marinate for a while. Let’s take advantage of this time. Pick a few leeks, as long as the leaves, and choose a little longer, so that when we tie the bacon later, it is easy to handle.
  Boil water in a small pot. After boiling, boil the asparagus quickly. This action is mainly to make the asparagus green; just put the boiled leek leaves in the water and blanch them. It’s good if it is soft, don’t overdo it.
• Let's do some manual work~
  A piece of bacon is rolled with a few asparagus. This depends on the length of my bacon. I changed the length of the knife to 5-6cm, and wrapped it with 4-5 asparagus. After the roll, it was tied with leek leaves. On the one hand, it is for setting the shape. , And come more beautiful.
  In fact, you can roll it up and fix it with a toothpick, but it's easy to loosen when it's fried in a pan, so the leek leaves are easier.
• This time the bacon is not so fat, so I put a small amount of olive oil before the pot. If the bacon that you bought is a bit fat for a long time, you don’t need to put the oil in it. Just put it in the hot pot, and fry it until the fat and oil of the bacon are exhausted. Can be out of the pot
• It is beautifully served and can be sprinkled with crushed black pepper. Of course, it is also good to eat with steamed fish soy sauce.