Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice (Lu Rou Fan)

Name: Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice (Lu Rou Fan)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 1 lb pork belly, diced; 4 tbsp soy sauce; 3 tbsp dark soy sauce; 3 tbsp Shaoxing wine; 2 tbsp sugar; 5 shallots, fried golden; 3 star anise; 2 cups water; 4 marinated soy eggs; steamed jasmine rice to serve; blanched greens

The iconic Taiwanese braised pork belly rice, glazed in sweet soy and topped with a creamy braised egg.

Total time

80 min

Prep

15 min

Cook

65 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Mediterranean

comfortworld

Ingredients

1 lbpork belly, diced

4 tbspsoy sauce

3 tbspdark soy sauce

3 tbspShaoxing wine

2 tbspsugar

5 shallots, fried golden

3 star anise

2 cupswater

4marinated soy eggs

steamed jasmine riceto serve

blanched greens

Instructions

Render pork until lightly golden.

Add fried shallots, soy sauces, wine, sugar, star anise, and water.

Braise covered 1 hour until very tender and sauce is thick.

Serve over rice with soy egg and greens.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

637

Protein

12.9g

Fat

60.2g

Carbs

7.8g

Fiber

0.2g

Sodium

1404mg

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