How to make delicious and irresistible tuna braised pork belly

Prepare
20 Minutes Processing
60 Minutes For
3-4 people

Tuna is a nutritious food that can be processed into many delicious dishes. In particular, tuna braised with pork belly is just a unique, interesting, but equally delicious combination dish. Let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn to make this dish for the family to enjoy through the following steps!

Ingredients for making braised tuna with pork belly

• 400g pork belly
• 800g tuna
• 1 coconut
• Red onion, garlic, chili, green onion
• Spices: Sugar, monosodium glutamate, colored water, cashew oil, seasoning seeds, cooking oil, chili sauce, fish sauce

Good tip
– To choose to buy good tuna, you should observe the fish’s eyes are clear and bright, clearly see the pupils inside. Check that the gills of the fish are pink, bright red is a good fish, and if the gills are dark red or dark brown, the fish is rotten and not fresh.
– The red flesh, with good elasticity is fresh fish, you should press lightly on the skin in the abdomen of the fish, check to see if there is no subsidence, if there is elasticity, the fish is fresh.

– To choose to buy delicious bacon, you should take pieces of meat with fat and meat that stick together, the ratio of meat and fat should also be balanced. The flesh is pink or light red, the surface is dry, and has good elasticity.
– For meat when the stock is not hard, you should choose meat with a skin layer of about 1/2 finger, without too thick skin.
– Do not buy meat that has a different color, greenish purple or yellowish color, feels soft to the touch or too hard, has a bad smell.

Ingredients for making braised tuna with pork belly

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Step 1Process materials

After buying tuna, please clean the intestines, gills , wash and then cut into pieces about 1-2 cm. Then rinse again to remove the black blood inside the fish.

The meat you buy is also washed with water, drained and then cut into small pieces about 0.5cm thick. Red onion, garlic, onion head, minced chili.

Preliminary processing of fish, meat and ingredients

Good tip
– To remove the fishy smell of fish, you should use one of the ingredients such as: Salt, lemon, vinegar to rub directly on the fish, gently massage for about 2 minutes and then rinse several times.
Or by soaking the fish in water to wash rice for 15 minutes and then wash it again.
– When cutting, you should use a sharp knife, and cut gently to avoid crushing the fish meat underneath.
– With meat, you can rub with a little salt for 2 minutes and then rinse.

Step 2Marinate meat and fish

You put the fish in a bowl and marinate the ingredients according to the following recipe: 2 tablespoons minced onion head, ½ tablespoon minced chili, ½ tablespoon minced garlic, ½ tablespoon red onion, 1 teaspoon sugar, ¼ teaspoon MSG and mix well to marinate for about 20 minutes .

Put the ingredients into the fish marinade

With pork belly, put in a bowl and then add the following ingredients to marinate: ½ tablespoon garlic, ½ tablespoon red onion, 1 teaspoon seasoning, ¼ teaspoon MSG, 1 teaspoon sugar, Then mix well for the seasoning to infuse the meat, marinate for about 20 minutes .

Put the ingredients in the marinade of pork belly

Step 3Fish fry

Put an oil pan on the stove to medium heat, until the oil is hot, put the fish in and pan on both sides . You pick up all the marinated spices in the bowl such as: Onions, garlic, chili in the bowl and fry them together to make them more fragrant.

After frying the fish on both sides, add 2 tablespoons of sugar, ½ teaspoon of MSG, ½ tablespoon of colored water, 1 tablespoon of chili sauce, 1 teaspoon of cashew oil, 5 tablespoons of fish sauce.

Next, turn on the high heat to bring the spice mixture to a boil, at the same time turn the fish over so that the spices are evenly absorbed, then lower the heat to simmer.

Pan-fry the fish on both sides until slightly golden

Step 4Fried meat

Put on the stove a pan with 2 teaspoons of oil, until the oil is hot, add all the marinated pork belly and stir-fry , stirring back and forth over high heat until the meat is cooked, then turn off the heat.

Stir-fried meat for hunting

Step 5Fish and pork stock

After the meat is fried, you put it in the stock with the fish pan being cooked. Next, you add about 500 ml of coconut water , so that it covers the meat and fish and then boil over high heat until boiling.

After boiling, reduce the heat to simmer for about 25 minutes for the coconut water and spices to be absorbed into the meat and fish until the water dries up.

Put the meat in the stock with the fish, season to taste

At this point, you can taste the seasoning to taste by adding 3 tablespoons of fish sauce . Finally, you add some sliced red onion, 2-3 chili peppers, and onion head for extra flavor.

Finished product

Tuna braised with pork belly is beautiful and delicious

Braised tuna with pork belly after cooking has a very nice brown color, firm, flexible fish, fatty and very fragrant meat. When eating, eat with white rice and some raw vegetables, cucumber is irresistible.

With the above steps, we have an irresistible delicious tuna braised pork belly with white rice. Hopefully, the above sharing will help you have a delicious, right-tasting pot of tuna braised with pork belly.

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