Vietnamese sweet and sour pork spareribs

This is recipe from my mom. It’s quite simple but so stunning. You should make at home for dinner because your family need energy to continue the day’s task like work, studying…And a hot, succulent and fragrant meal will refresh all of you.

Ingredients: serves 4-6 people

-    1 pound pork spareribs, bone in, cleaned and drained, cut into bite-sized pieces ( around 1.5 inches)

-          2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped

-          2 small red shallot, peeled and finely diced

-          3 medium- size ripe tomatoes, diced into small pieces

-          1 tablespoon white vinegar

-          1 teaspoon cornstarch

-          1 scallions, green part only, sliced into thin rings.

-          1 hot fresh chili, sliced into thin rings

-          2 tablespoons cooking oil

-          clean water

For the marinade:

-       1 clove garlic, peeled and minced

-       1 tablespoon fish sauce

-       2 teaspoons granulated sugar

-       1 teaspoon seasame oil.

Garnishes arranged on a plate and placed at the table:

-          1 cucumber, thinly sliced

-          2 tomatoes, thinly sliced

Accompaniments:

-             Soy sauce

-             Hot chili sauce

-             Tomato sauce

Method: 

1.            Combine the marinade ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix well. Add the spareribs and turn to coat in the marinade, then cover and marinated for 30 minutes. Drain off and reserve the marinade.

2.            Place a wok or frying pan over medium heat. Add 2 tabespoons cooking oil. When hot, add the garlic and red shallot. Gently stir until fragrant and golden brown.

3.            Add the spareribs , sear and turn until golden brown on the outside.

4.            Pour 2-4 tablespoons water into the marinade. Stir well and add to cover the spareribs. Reduce the heat to medium low. Cover lid and allow to simmer for 20 minutes.

5.            Add the tomatoes and continue to simmer until the tomatoes breakdown and thicken.

6.            In the meanwhile, combine the cornstarch with 2 tablespoon water in a small bowl. Stir well into a slurry.

7.            Add the cornstarch slurry and gently stir to thicken the sauce even more.

8.            Taste and adjust the flavor with the addional sugar, salt, fish sauce.

9.            Add 1 tablespoon white vinegar. Taste again. The sauce should be well sweet and sour.

10.        Finally top with chopped scallions and sliced chili.

11.        Remove from the heat. Transfer to a serving plate.

 

Serving:

Serve hot with the garnish plate.

Eating with warm rice and a dipping sauce as soy sauce, or/ and tomato sauce.

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