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Gan guo pork belly and onion stir fry

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  • 1 lb skinless pork belly
Remove any skin from a pound of pork belly and slice it thin.
  • 1 whole sweet onion
Trim, halve and cut a sweet onion into bite-sized pieces, separating the layers so they cook evenly.
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • ½ inch ginger
  • 1 whole green chili
  • 1 whole red chili
  • 2 whole dried red chilies
Thinly slice three garlic cloves and half an inch of ginger; cut a green and a red chili bite-sized and two dried red chilies into short pieces.
Aromatics and chilies
  • 1½ tsp oil
Heat the wok on high until smoking, add one and a half teaspoons of oil.
Add the pork, drop to medium or medium low, and stir-fry a few minutes until golden brown and the fat has rendered; pour off some oil if wanted.
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • ½ tbsp oyster sauce
  • ½ tbsp Sichuan Doubanjiang
  • 1 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
Add the soy sauce, oyster sauce, doubanjiang, dark soy sauce and cooking wine.
Add the garlic, ginger and dried chilies and stir over medium heat a minute or two until the pork is well browned.
Add the onion and chilies, turn to high and stir-fry about a minute for crisp onion, longer for soft.
  • ½ tsp Jiao Yan seasoning
Sprinkle with half a teaspoon of Jiao Yan seasoning.
Jiao yan seasoning and gan guo variations