Food Recommendation: Pickled Bamboo Shoot Braised with Pork Belly, the Best Way to Eat It

Pickled bamboo shoots are the most common bean products in our lives. They have a yellowish-white color with a glossy yellow hue and a strong bean fragrance. At the same time, they have a unique texture that other bean products don't possess. Bamboo shoots are also considered nutritional champions among bean products.

Eating bamboo shoots can help promote our body's development. Bamboo shoots contain a large amount of calcium, which is easily absorbed and digested by the body, so eating more bamboo shoots can prevent osteoporosis and are beneficial for bone development and protection.

Each 100 grams of bamboo shoots contain about 50 grams of protein, 280 milligrams of calcium, and 8 essential amino acids, all of which are abundant. The protein content is comparable to that of meat. Regularly eating bamboo shoots can effectively supplement the human body with protein and prevent osteoporosis caused by calcium deficiency, promote bone development, and are very beneficial for the bone growth of children and the elderly.

To make this delicious dish, you need to use pickled bamboo shoots, ginger, garlic, scallions, chili sauce, salt, chicken broth, soy sauce, and old Chinese liquor as ingredients and seasonings.

Step 1: After soaking pickled bamboo shoots in water for 30 minutes and draining the water, cut them into small pieces. Also, chop ginger, garlic, scallions, and chili sauce into minced pieces, and prepare the chili sauce in a bowl.

Step 2: Here is a wok, a wok that has been cleaned and then heated. Heat the wok over oil, put the bamboo shoots into the pot and fry until they turn golden yellow, then remove them and drain the oil.

Step 3: In the bottom of the pot, add a little oil and stir-fry garlic, ginger, and scallions. Then add the chili sauce to the pot and stir-fry. Add an appropriate amount of water, old Chinese liquor, soy sauce, pepper, and stir-fry evenly.

Step 4: Then put the bamboo shoots back into the pot and cook for about 10 minutes with the lid on. Finally, use high heat to reduce the sauce and add chicken broth and salt, and stir-fry evenly to complete.

This is a very simple pickled bamboo shoot braised pork dish, of course, there is also braised bamboo shoots with pork belly. The aroma of meat makes the braised bamboo shoots even more delicious. Braised bamboo shoots with pork belly is like having a soul. Pork belly is the key!

Step 1: Soak dried bamboo shoots in cold water and cut them into appropriate lengths. Pork belly is cut into meat chunks. Seasonings (star anise, dried chili peppers, cinnamon, star anise, rock sugar), garlic seeds, to appropriate amounts.

Step 2: Heat the pot, remove excess oil, pour in pork belly cubes over low heat and stir-fry until the pork belly cubes turn dark and the oil comes out. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and add an appropriate amount of water over low heat. After the water evaporates, turn the heat up and stir-fry until caramel color appears.

Step 3: Add star anise, cinnamon, star anise, dried chili peppers, and an appropriate amount of water. Stir-fry over high heat to release the fragrance of the spices (when the spices have released their flavor, adding bamboo shoots is the best).

Step 4: After the water has evaporated, stir-fry over high heat until the pork belly cubes stick to the sugar color. Add the bamboo shoots and stir-fry to remove the water and bean sprout flavor of the bamboo shoots. Add an appropriate amount of old Chinese liquor and stir-fry evenly to color it.

Step 5: Add an appropriate amount of water to the bamboo shoots, then add ginger slices and garlic seeds, cover the pot with a lid and cook over high heat for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, open the lid, add an appropriate amount of pepper and stir-fry evenly. Then add garlic sprouts, add an appropriate amount of chicken broth and stir-fry evenly. Delicious!

With this pickled bamboo shoot braised pork dish made with pork belly, it's done! This pickled bamboo shoot is full of meat fragrance. Eating it is really satisfying. With the current price of pork, buying a small piece and making it into dishes to add meat fragrance is a good choice.