Best Yu Bos Twice Cooked Pork Recipes

YU BO'S TWICE-COOKED PORK

Steps:

• Simmer pork:
• Put pork in a 5-quart pot and cover with cold water by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, skimming foam as necessary, then add ginger and scallion. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until pork is just cooked through (it should no longer be pink inside), about 1 hour. Drain in a colander and cool (pork will be easier to slice).
• Cut pork crosswise into 1/8-inch-thick slices (discarding any bones) and pat dry.
• Stir-fry pork and leeks:
• Wash white and pale green sliced leeks in a bowl of cold water, then lift out and drain well. Pat dry. If using Chinese leek greens, wash separately in same manner.
• Stir together chile bean sauce, cayenne, black beans, and sweet bean sauce in a small bowl.
• Stir together wine and soy sauce in a small cup.
• Heat a wok over high heat until a bead of water dropped onto cooking surface evaporates immediately. Add 1 tablespoon oil, swirling it around wok, and heat until it begins to smoke. Carefully add pork slices (oil will spit) and cook, letting slices lie flat against wok to brown but stirring occasionally, until golden, about 3 minutes. Transfer pork with a slotted spoon to a bowl.
• Add remaining tablespoon oil to wok and heat over high heat until it begins to smoke. Add chile mixture and stir-fry 1 minute.
• Return pork to wok and stir-fry until coated with chile mixture. Add wine-soy mixture and stir-fry until pork is coated. Add white and pale green parts of either kind of leek and stir-fry until almost crisp-tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Add Chinese leek greens if using. Continue to stir-fry until leeks are crisp-tender (and greens are just wilted), about 1 minute.

TWICE-COOKED PORK (HUI GUO ROU)

Steps:

• Place the pork in a large saucepan and cover with water; bring to the boil.
• When it is boiling, add the mirin and ginger.
• Cook the pork for 20 minutes, then remove from the water and allow to cool (discard the other contents of the pan).
• When the pork is cool enough to handle, slice across the grain as thinly as possible in pieces about 2 inches long.
• Clean the leek and slice in half lengthwise, then slice in 1 inch pieces.
• Clean the bell pepper, remove seeds, and chop in pieces similar in size to the leek.
• Heat a wok over medium-high to high heat.
• Add the oil, and when it is hot, add the flattened garlic clove.
• Fry the garlic until it is very brown, then remove it and discard.
• Add the chopped leek to the wok, and cook for 1 minute, stirring all the while.
• Add the bell pepper pieces, and cook for about 30 seconds, stirring continuously.
• Push the vegetables to the side of the wok and add the sambal oelek in the middle; heat briefly.
• Add the soybean paste, soy sauce, and the pork slices, mixing all well and insuring the pork is covered with all the spicy mixture.
• Cook only for another 1-2 minutes, until everything is heated through.