Sticky Pork Bao Recipe | Simple Home Edit

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 500 g boneless pork belly, cut into approximately 2 cm (¾ inch) slices (or pork rashers/slices) (see note 1)
• 2 garlic cloves, roughly sliced
• 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, roughly sliced into matchsticks
• 125 ml Shaoxing wine (can be substituted with dry white wine or with water)
• 55 g brown sugar
• 60 ml tamari or all-purpose soy sauce
• 1 tsp Chinese five spice
• 2 star anise
• 125 ml water
• 8 bao buns (see note 2)
• Peanuts, crushed
• Spring onion (scallion), finely sliced
• Carrot, sliced into batons
• Cucumber, cut into batons
• Coriander (cilantro) leaves
• Chilli, finely sliced
• Equal parts sriracha and whole-egg mayonnaise, mixed