Hong Kong Ribs Recipes

SWEET AND SOUR SPARE RIBS

Steps:

• Cut ribs into 1 inch to 1.5 inch sections. Place in a pot with cold water. Bring to boil and continue cooking for 2-3 minutes. Transfer out and rinse under running warm water. Set aside to drain.
• Add cooking oil and smashed rock sugar in wok, heat over slow fire. Keep stirring until the sugar melts and turns into dark red.
• Add ribs to coat the sugar color, place light soy sauce, cooking wine and black vinegar. Continue stir fry for 2 minutes and pour enough hot water to cover and add ginger, green onion and star anise.
• Cover the lid and simmer for 25 minutes over slowest fire. Stir once or twice in the process. Pick the ginger, green onion and star anise out in the later stage.
• Turn up the fire and thicken the fire. Keep stirring and stop when the sauce is almost adhered to the ribs. Be carefully in the last minutes, do not get your ribs overcooked.
• Add extra 1 teaspoon of black vinegar and sesame seeds. Combine well.
• Garnish chopped spring onions before serving.

HONG KONG RIBS

Steps:

• Roll ribs in flour mixed with salt.
• Brown well in fat in heavy pan.
• Combine ginger, garlic, soy sauce and lemon juice and pour over ribs.
• Cover and bake in preheated moderate oven (325 degrees) for 2 hours, basting frequently with the sauce.
• Uncover and bake or broil a few minutes longer to crisp the ribs.
• Ribs may be soaked in soy sauce before browning to intensify flavor.

EASY CHINESE STEAMED PORK SPARE RIBS WITH GARLIC AND CHILLI

Steps:

• Rinse the pork ribs and drain them well. Put them in a bowl and add the soy sauce, rice wine, salt, sugar, cornstarch and oil, then mix thoroughly. Leave at room temperature while preparing the other ingredients.
• Mince the garlic. Slice the banana chilli on the diagonal into 3mm (⅛in) pieces. Cut the bird's-eye chilli in half lengthwise and scrape out and discard the seeds. Slice the chillies into 3mm (⅛in) pieces. Mix the garlic and both types of chillies with the pork. Spread the ingredients in a shallow heat-proof serving dish.
• Place a metal rack with low feet in the bottom of a wok and add water to the depth of about 4cm (1½in). Heat over a high flame until the water boils. Place the dish of pork on the rack, cover with the lid and steam over a medium-high flame for 20 to 30 minutes.
• While the pork is cooking, mince the spring onions. When the pork is fully cooked, sprinkle the spring onions on top and serve with steamed white rice.