Deep fried pork in chili garlic salt

Hi, all! It's been so long since my last update, but as the saying goes, "better late than never", right? I've just been so busy, really. I hope you understand. I was actually so surprised to see that the site viewing counter rise to 6,500+ views! It's amazing. I never expected to have so many readers. Thank you so much to each and everyone of you. To make it up, here is a very good recipe I'm sharing with you! I hope you like it!

You know those deep fried pork in that yummy chili oil things in a lot of Chinese restaurants? For dinner today, I tried to make it myself, and voila! I succeeded. There's still some room for improvement, of course, but it definitely was real tasty! My family and I enjoyed it a lot.

Ingredients

1 inch ginger (peeled)

1/2 kilo pork ribs

rock salt

black pepper

1 egg (beaten)

3 small red chilis, sliced

4-5 garlic cloves, minced

Marinade

soysauce (just enough to cover the ribs, but not too much the ribs can swim in it)

half a lemon or 2 calamansi (juice)

salt, pepper, ginger

Coating (mix together. 1.5 cornstarch: 1 garlic powder: X chili powder)

cornstarch

garlic powder

7 spice powder/spicy chili powder

Directions

1. Put the ginger, ribs, and a dash of salt in a pot of water and boil until the ribs are tender.
2. Take out the ribs and ginger from the pot and put aside. You may discard the water.
3. Marinate the ribs in soysauce, some lemon/calamansi juice, salt, pepper, and the remaining ginger for atleast 40 minutes
4. After the 40 minutes are up, dip the marinated ribs in the beaten egg and coat with the coating
5. Fry this in medium-high heat, enough to get the coating crispy and light brown. Put aside.
6. Discard 3/4 of the used oil from the pan/wok, lower heat.
7. When the pan/wok is no longer so hot, saute 1-2 tbsp of rock salt, chili, garlic. until garlic begins to brown and the oil begins to evaporate.
8. If oil is too little, add a little bit more, put heat to medium and then mix in the ribs and some of the remaining marinade. Don't be afraid to add more salt, pepper, or spice powder, if you want!
9. Toss in pan/wok until ribs turn a darker shade of brown (but before it burns, of course!).
10. Serve with some vinegar and RICE!

What's great with this recipe is you can use the same style of preparation to other meat like chicken or fish or even tofu (but for tofu, fish and chicken fillet cuts, no need to boil anymore since it cooks quickly)! Enjoy! :)

Chili Beef Stir-fry

Got the recipe from an Asian Recipes cookbook, but I decided to make a few changes, which made the dish even better! Haha

Ingredients:
500g Beef steak cut into strips
Carrot cut into strips
Brocolli
Some snowpeas
2 Red bellpepper
1 onion chopped
1 small can baby corn
2 cloves garlic chopped
1 tbsp Sesame seeds
1 .5-2 tbsp chili flakes (or more)
Sesame Oil
1 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro

Sauce (Mix in a bowl)
2 tbsp Soysauce
1/2 cup beef broth (or diluted beef buillion)
1 tsp chili flakes
1 tsp cornstarch (optional - only if you want your sauce a little thicker)
1.5 inch grated ginger
3 cloves garlic chopped
1 tsp vetsin

Directions:

1. Mix beef with a pinch of salt & pepper + sesame seeds, put aside
2. Saute garlic and onion in sesame oil
3. When garlic and onion have begun to soften, stir-fry beef for about 3 minutes. Remove and set aside
4. Add a dash more sesame oil, stir fry vegetables for about 3 minutes.
5. Pour in sauce, chili flakes, cover wok and let simmer for a few minutes
6. Return beef to wok, mix with veggies, cover wok again, and let simmer for about 2 minutes
7. Transfer to serving plate and then sprinkle cilantro over it.
8. Serve with noodles or hot rice. :)

Crispy liempo (pork belly)

Possibly one of the easiest recipes for pork belly, that you can make even in the comfort of a small studio apartment! (Serves 2)

Ingredients

• 2 slices pork belly; each cut in half (you can also use a chunkier cut, but that will be harder to fry)
• 2 cloves garlic
• salt & pepper
• ginger powder
• 5 or 7 spice powder (chili powder works fine too)
• 1 tbsp soysauce

Directions

1. Boil pork belly until tender and the blood has oozed out (10-15mins)
2. Rub the pork with salt, pepper, ginger powder, spicy powder
3. Pour soysauce on the pork
4. Leave it for like 30 minutes to an hour
5. Prepare a frying pan and fill it with about enough oil to cover half of each belly slice
6. Put in garlic
7. When oil is very hot (put stove on medium high heat) fry each side of the belly for a few minutes, until pork browns and belly skin has become crispy (it will bubble a little). WARNING: BE CAREFUL frying this, because the oil will be splattering quite violently. Use a splatter shield and/or long tongs while frying to avoid hot oil from hitting your skin
8. Discard the garlic
   
9. Take out pork from the pan and serve with vinegar on the side, rice, and ENJOY! :)

Chinese BBQ Ribs

This recipe very, very easy and very, very tasty. I got it from the internet and just modified it a little. You just need the ff:
1. Pork Spareribs
2. Water
3. Chinese BBQ sauce
4. Garlic 3-4 cloves
5. 1-2 inch worth of ginger, sliced
6. Chili flakes/tobasco sauce (how much depends on how spicy you like it)
7. Salt & Pepper

Directions:

1. Boil the ribs with ginger and some salt until soft
2. Discard water and ginger (or you can use the broth for some other soup; up to you)
3. Saute garlic and then brown the ribs' sides
4. Take out ribs
5. In the same pan, add Chinese BBQ sauce (enough to coat ribs), chili flakes/tobasco sauce and mix with the garlic
6. When it simmers, put back the ribs and use a tong to rotate them so that they will be coated with the sauce (you can use a brush too, but I warn you Chinese BBQ sauce is very sticky, so that may be a little difficult)
7. Simmer for about 10 minutes when ribs have absorbed the sauce
8. Serve with hot rice! :)