Vietnamese Caramel Pork | Vietnamese Recipes | Tesco Real Food

Ingredients

• 800g pork belly (from the meat counter), skin removed
• 1 cucumber, peeled into ribbons, seeds discarded
• 2 carrots, peeled into ribbons
• 150ml rice wine vinegar
• 50g caster sugar
• 1 red chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp groundnut oil
• 3 shallots, finely chopped
• 6cm piece ginger, peeled and finely grated
• 200g light brown soft sugar
• 2 spring onions, sliced
• 450g rice, cooked to pack instructions, to serve
• 300ml low-salt soy sauce
• 200ml shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
• 4cm piece ginger, sliced
• 3 large garlic cloves, sliced
• 3 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick