Pork Belly with Soy Sauce and Lily Flowers - pork belly

Method

• 1.
• Poke the pork belly skin side with a fork and make sure it goes all the way to the meat side.
• Do this across the pork belly.
• 2.
• In a pot, add 1 cup of water, half of the soy sauce, half of the vinegar, bay leaves, smashed cloves of garlic, whole black peppers, and the pork belly.
• Turn heat on high and cover pot.
• 3.
• When it starts boiling, reduce heat to medium high.
• Check back after 15 minutes to make sure pot isnt dry.
• Then wait again for 15 minutes.
• 4.
• After 15 minutes, check pot again.
• You will notice the liquid has reduced.
• Add the remaining water, soy sauce, and vinegar.
• Turn the pork belly over.
• Turn heat to medium and cover the pot.
• 5.
• After 15 minutes, check pot.
• At this point the skin should be soft and easily pierced by a fork.
• Add the lily flowers; I actually create a bed of lily flowers for the pork belly to rest on.
• Turn heat to medium-low (thats simmer on my stoveI have a glass top electric stove).
• Cover pot.
• 6.
• After 15 minutes, check the pot.
• Lily flowers should be soft and moist.
• Turn heat off.
• The water you added 30 minutes ago should have been reduced.
• 7.
• Take out the pork belly and slice.
• Serve with rice!