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Friday, November 14, 2008

Pork Belly Sandwiched With Yam Slices



This was my mom’s favourite dish. The Chinese named this dish ‘Gow Yoke ’ . It is a dish whereby slices of pork belly sandwiched between slices of yam marinated with ‘ nam yee ‘ aka fermented red beancurd . Most chinese families love this dish.


I finally managed to cook this dish as close to my mom’s cooking, taste wise it was deliciously yummy. A lot of work though, but the end result was a dish that I will make again this weekend coz it was good and I know for sure Piggy gal will loves it :))




Pork Belly Sandwiched With Yam Slices

Ingredients:

1 whole yam –peeled and cut into 1.5 in square sizes
-fry the cut yam in hot oil for 5 minutes and drained off oil
A strip of ½ kg lean pork belly with the skin on
1 tbsp of thick black sauce
Dash of white pepper

Marinade sauce:

4 pieces of fermented red beancurd aka ‘nam yee’
5 pips of garlic – chopped finely
2 tbsp of chinese cooking wine
1 tbsp of sugar
1 tbsp of fermented soybean aka ‘tow cheong’
1 cup of water

Method:

Mixed the above marinade ingredients together and leave it aside for twenty minutes .

Meanwhile, clean the pork belly and put in hot boiling water till half cook. Take it out and seasoned with thick black sauce and white pepper. Use a fork and poke on the surface of the pork belly to let the sauce infiltered into the meat.

Heat up wok, add a tbsp of oil and lightly fry the strip of meat till cook. Take it out and sliced into 1.5 in square sizes to fit the yam slices. Sandwiched a slice of pork belly with two slices of yam. Do the same to the rest of the meat till all the meat are used up. Arrange them neatly in a bowl. Pour the prepared marinade sauce onto the pork belly yam sandwiches . Cover the bowl with aluminium foil and steamed it for 60 minutes on high flame. Serve it hot with rice.

Enjoy!


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10 comments:

  1. This is one dish that most older style restaurant will serve to its customers. Now only a few outlets have it. I like it especially when the yam is very 'furn'.

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  2. This is my fav dish especially the yam. Seeing your dish I think I wanted to make some once I get some good yam :)

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  3. I have never heard of this before. It sure does look very interesting! I heart old-style Chinese home cooked meal.

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  4. I have never heard of this before. It sure does look very interesting! I heart old-style Chinese home cooked meal.

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  5. My mother's specialty too! Everytime I ate the yam and gravy only. ;)

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  6. @cklam: I love the yam too if it is 'furn'. In Ipoh many restaurants still serve this dish, but not as nice as homecooked coz their meat has more fat. I prefer lean meat with a bit of fat :) I do love this dish!

    @ Gert : You are like me, love chinese food ^ *

    @ Jun: Hi Jun, thanks for dropping by..try cooking it and I am sure you will love it :))

    @ food for tots : Hi, thanks for dropping by. The gravy makes the yam more delicious with the flavor infused into the yam...hmmm yummy :)

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  7. Thanks for this recipe. My hubby's favourite. I tried it once and I forgot all about how to make it. Glad I found the recipe now!! Thanks.

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  8. Hi simplefood,

    You are welcome, hope ur hubby will love it.

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  9. 芋头扣肉..i wanna cry..seriously...
    I cant believe seen this post here.
    My mom's is the best. Now I see the recipe here...I wanna try it for sure.

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  10. Elinluv you must be a Asian fans. Your food all have Asian taste. Btw the food's name translation very nice. Love your blog

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