HOW TO MAKE FERMENTED BLACK BEANS RECIPES

Steps:

• Rinse the dried fermented black beans in warm water 3 times. Then, let it soak in the water to rehydrate for at least 5 minutes.
• Peel the membrane off the spare ribs by making a small cut at the end, and pulling it away from the meat.
• Make the marinade by mixing together cornstarch, salt, sugar, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, baking soda, cooking wine, water, and white pepper.
• Carefully cut around the taro to score the slice where we want to cut it, so we end up with taro. Then, chop deep into the taro and split the slice off.
• Dice green onion and red chili pepper and set aside.
• Crush half of the rehydrated fermented black beans with the back of a spoon. Mix them into the ribs.
• When the taro is cooked through, turn off the heat, and remove the dish from the pan.

Steps:

• Slice the ribs in between the bones into bite-size pieces. Then rub with salt, corn starch, crushed ice and Chinese cooking wine for 8 minutes. This 8 minutes of rubbing is going to loosen up the grains and fibers, which tenderize the ribs physically - very important.
• Rinse the ribs under cold running water for a few minutes or until all the starch is gone Then drain completely. This cleaning process will remove any unpleasant smell and wash off some of the Myoglobin, which is the redness that appears on the meat. If you don’t wash it, you will get a meaty, gamy taste and your ribs will be brown after cooking. This is completely optional and up to you but I as a Cantonese, we prefer our meat to have a light color and a clean taste especially when making steamed recipes.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the marinading ingredients for the ribs: soy sauce, oyster sauce, chinese cooking wine, salt, baking soda, sugar, white pepper, granulated orange peel, 2 tbsp of minced garlic (reserve 1 tbsp for later), and 2 tsp of the minced ginger (reserve 1 tsp for later).
• Even though the ribs are well-drained, it is still wet. Use paper towels to absorb as much water as possible then mix the ribs with the marinade.
• Once all the flavor is well combined, add 2 tbsp of cornstarch and mix thoroughly. This will get you that classic dim sum rib texture. Set the ribs aside for now.
• In a sauce pot, add the black soybean, the reserved garlic and ginger, and 2 tbsp of oil. Saute for a couple of minutes or until the aromatics are slightly golden on the edge. Turn off the heat. Let it cool.
• Pour the aromatics and oil into the ribs and stir thoroughly. Let is sit in the fridge for at least 1 hour (over night will be even better).
• Place the ribs in the plate and steam on high heat for 30 minutes. Make sure you have enough water in the pot so it doesn’t boil to dry.
• Sprinkle some diced scallion as garnish. Enjoy