Spicy Belacan Pork Dish
Shiokman Recipes recipe - Peranakan

- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 kg sliced loin pork
- 4 big onions sliced
- 200 ml coconut milk
- 750 ml water
- Oil for frying
- 1 kg potatoes cut into chips
- 250 g green peas
- 4 tsp sugar
- 2 Tbsp thick dark soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp thin dark soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp vinegar
- 200 g small onions (peeled and washed)
- 12 cloves garlic
- 100 g dried chillies (soaked and seeded)
- 150 g belachan (shrimp paste, toasted)
Instructions
- 1
Cut 1 kg pork loin into thin slices and into halves
- 2
Smash the slices of pork with the back of the cleaver
- 3
Mix sugar, thick and thin dark soy sauce and vinegar in a bowl thoroughly
- 4
Pour the marinate over the sliced pork and mix until they are evenly coated
- 5
Keep the marinated pork slices in the fridge until ready to be cooked
- 6
Pan fry marinated pork slices for about a minute on each side
- 7
Cut 1 kg potatoes into chips and soak in water to prevent discolouration
- 8
Drain the potato chips completely dry before frying them in hot oil
- 9
Remove potato chips from deep fryer when they are almost cooked
- 10
Blend small onions, garlic, dried chillies and toasted belacan into a fine paste
- 11
Pour the blended spicy paste into a hot wok with cooking oil and stir fry
- 12
Fry until the rempah is cooked (when oil separates) and set aside
- 13
Fry 4 sliced big onions until slightly brown
- 14
Add the cooked rempah and stir evenly
- 15
Add the cooked sliced pork and mix evenly
- 16
Pour 750 ml water a little at a time and stir well
- 17
Add 200 ml coconut milk and stir until all the ingredients are evenly mixed
- 18
Add the fried potato chips and 250g of frozen green peas and mix thoroughly
- 19
Let it simmer for about 10 mins
- 20
Serve hot with rice