Red-Cooked Pork
SUBMITTED BY : RockyB PREPARATION TIME: 2 h COOKING TIME : 20 SERVINGS : 4

DESCRIPTION:

Good spicey pork roast

INGREDIENTS:

1 whole bone-in pork shoulder roast (7 pounds), trimmed of skin and excess fat
1 piece (2 inches long) fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
3 garlic cloves, crushed with flat side of chef's knife
2 strips (3" by 1" each) fresh orange peel
1 cinnamon stick (3 inches long)
1 whole star anise
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
1/4 cup dry sherry or water
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup seasoned rice vinegar
Cornstarch

DIRECTIONS:

1. Heat 8-quart Dutch oven over medium-high heat until hot. Add pork and cook until browned on all sides, about 15 minutes. Transfer pork to plate.

2. Reduce heat to medium. Add ginger slices, garlic, orange peel, cinnamon stick, star anise, and crushed red pepper, and cook 5 minutes, stirring. Add 1/2 cup brown sugar and cook 10 minutes longer, stirring frequently. Add sherry or water, stirring to loosen brown bits; cook 2 minutes.

3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Stir soy sauce, rice vinegar, and 4 1/2 cups water into mixture in Dutch oven. Add pork and heat to boiling over high heat. Cover Dutch oven; place in preheated oven and bake 2 hours 30 minutes, turning meat over once during cooking, until meat is fork-tender.

4. Remove Dutch oven from oven. Transfer meat to platter; cover and keep warm.

5. Meanwhile, skim fat from cooking broth. Strain broth through fine mesh sieve into large glass measuring cup to measure yield of broth. Pour broth back into Dutch oven.

6. In cup, with small wire whisk or fork, mix cornstarch (use 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch for each 1 cup cooking broth) with 1/2 cup cold water until blended. Slowly whisk cornstarch mixture into broth in Dutch oven. Heat broth over medium high heat until mixture boils and thickens slightly, stirring occasionally. Boil 1 minute.

7. Ladle 1 cup broth into 1-quart saucepan; stir in remaining 1 tablespoon brown sugar. Heat to boiling over medium-high heat; boil 15 minutes or until broth is thick and syrupy. With pastry brush, brush syrup over pork.

8. To serve, pour broth into gravy boat. Slice pork or, with 2 forks, shred pork coarsely.

SHOPPING LIST :

1 whole bone-in pork shoulder roast
fresh ginger
garlic cloves
orange
cinnamon stick
star anise
crushed red pepper
brown sugar
dry sherry
rice vinegar
Cornstarch

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