[Korean] Five Flavor Pork

At a dinner party with our friend B and his girlfriend J

Appetizer : rice cake with green pepper and red onion wrapped in bacon
Main dish : Five Flavored pork & Jap-chae
Side dish : miso soup & boiled rice

 

Five Flavor pork (serves 2)
Korean Name for this dish : oh-hyang-jang-yook

I forgot to take pictures of finished dish and each cooking step. I'll post them later!

Ingredients [click here for details]
Pork shoulder western style ribs 1 lb
2 green onions
2 star anise
5 cloves of garlic, sliced
ginger as big as 1 clove of garlic, sliced
3Tbsp soy sauce
5 cloves
2.5Tbsp sugar
2Tbsp dry white wine
vegitable oil
as a side: 1 cucumber ( I used 2 salad(pickle) cucumbers.), sliced

cooking Instruction
1. Cut meat into long cylindrical shape, and wrap it tightly with string.

2. Cook meat on a hot wide pan with a little of vegitable oil on a stove top till brown.
    This is for getting rid of some pork fat.

3.  Remove the pork fat oil from the pan.

4. On the same pan, add 2 cups of water, 3 Tbsp of soy sauce, 2 star anise, 5 cloves, sliced garlic, sliced ginger, white parts of green onions. The green parts of green onions will be served with cooked pork after slicing them into strips. 

 In general, when you cook meat, put star anise or bay leaf. They add a good flavor to meat.
 You can buy Star anise (and other many spices) at Indian stores. Star anise photo from wikipedia



5. Bring it to boil till half of the sauce is left. Stir occasionally.

6. Put 2Tbsp of white wine and 2.5 Tbsp of sugar and keep heating till a several spoons of sauce is left. Sauce should be thick and shiny.


How to Serve
Getting rid of strings and slice meat.
On a serving plate, put sliced meat and sliced cucumber alternately along the edge.
Pour the sauce around on them.
In the middle of the plate, put green onion strips.

How to Eat
On a personal plate, put a slice of meat on a slice of cucumber.
put some strips of green onions on the top of them.
and Enjoy!