Chinese-Style Braised Pork Rashers

Here it goes. My first recipe from my goal to cook a recipe from all of my cookbooks. I have a large collection of books to choose from.  So what to cook was the question and what author to choose from.  But also what did I have avaliable in the pantry, fridge and freezer.  I though long and hard about this.  I found some pork rashers in the freezer. So to cook some sort of pork dish was the goal.  But now what cookbook to use is the question.


After looking through a few cookbooks.  I found the recipe and author I was looking for.  I chose to use Julie Goodwin's "The Heart Of The Home" published in 2011.  Julie is Australia's first Masterchef winner.  I think Julie is great. A mum like me and a true home cook. She was definately not expected to win Masterchef when she did.  A true underdog in my belief.  So out of her cookbook I chose to cook "Chinese-style Braised Pork Rashers".



 

 

 

The great thing about this recipe is that it only takes 5 minutes in preparation time. Every ingredient is placed in a pot and simmered for an hour at least.  Or until the rashers skin has become gelatinous and the meat is tender.  It smells amazing while cooking.

 

 

 

 

  The ingredients are pork rashers, brown sugar, cgilli powder, ginger, soy sauce, garlic, oyster sauce, chinese five spicce and cornflour(not pictured here for thickening the sauce).

 

 

The only thing that I changed form teh recipe was that I reduced the amount of chilli powder in it.  As my son would never have tried the pork.  besides that I think ther ecipe turned out great.  The recipe was aas good as I expected it to be.  My husband was surprised at how good it tasted. This will definately be a recipe that I will cook again.

 

 

If you would like to check out Julie Goodwin's website click on the link below.

 

http://www.juliegoodwin.com.au/

 

 



Starting Out

My name is Samantha Perkovic. I work with my husband in our family business.  But my love is for cooking, collecting cookbooks, trying different restaurants and travelling.  What I am hoping to do  with this blog is to attempt to cook a different recipe form all of the cookbooks that I own!  There are quite a few books in the bookshelf.  So this should be a lot of fun.  There may also be restaurant reviews. And pieces written about our family travels when we do get away.  So I hope you enjoy reading what I put together.