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Thursday 19th January 2012
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (Chun Jie)

Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (Chun Jie)

23^rd January 2012

The Year of the Dragon

 

Chinese New Year marks the start of the Lunar Calendar.

Originally this marked the beginning of spring in China.

Myth

An ancient legend has it that a dragon called Nian would come on the first day of the new year to eat livestock, crops and sometimes the occasional child!

One day people noticed Nian was scared of loud noises and feared the colour red.

 

Celebration

Since then every New Year people dress up in red and costumes and make as much noise as possible to ‘scare’ away Nian!

 

Food

To help get you in the spirit of the Chinese New Year, why not try some cooking some Chinese dishes? Chinese food is easy to cook and traditionally wholesome!

 

Check out our Crispy Pork recipe below.

 

Equipment needed.

-          Oven – Recommended choice :  Lincat Opus Six Burner Gas Oven Range

(cooking for the masses? : Professional LPG Spit Roast Machine )

 

-          Roasting tin – Recommended choice : Vogue Large Roasting Tray

-          Mixing Bowl – Recommended choice : 13" Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl

-          Knives – Recommended choice : 9pc Samurai Knife Set

 

Ingredients

-          1.3kg Boned Pork Belly

(Make sure you leave the skin on!)

-          2tsp Chinese five-spice powder

-          2tsp Salt (Preferably Sea Salt)

 

For the Dipping Sauce

-          4 tbsp soy sauce

-          Small knob of fresh root ginger

-          1 tbsp Thai sweet chilli sauce

-          1 Spring onion

 

1)      Rub the pork with the five-spice and 2 tsp sea salt then leave, uncovered, in the fridge for at least 2 hrs, but preferably overnight. When ready to cook, heat oven to its maximum setting. Lay the pork on a rack over a roasting tin, making sure the skin is exposed. Roast for 10 mins before turning down the heat to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4, then leave to cook for a further 1½ hrs. Have a look at the pork - if the skin isn't crisp, turn up the heat to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7, then cook for another 30 mins until crisp. Leave to rest on a board for at least 10 mins.

 

2)      To make the dipping sauce, mix all the ingredients together with 2 tbsp water. Cut the pork into small pieces, then serve with the sauce, plus boiled rice and steamed greens, if you like.

 

(Recipe derived from the BBC Good Food Website)

 

 

 

 

Posted on January 19th 2012 at 02:05pm

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