Pork Belly with Two Sauces (Bo-ssam)
2 hours Recipe Yield:
6-8 servings Difficulty:
Medium recipe
Pork belly with two sauces (Bo-ssam) is a Korean cuisine recipe, this recipe consists of several dishes. It’s a bit complicated, but for a company, for friends, you don’t need to cook anything else, this recipe has everything, and sauce, and salad, and the main course. Of course, there are many steps and you need to take care of all of the individual dishes. The main nuances are that the cabbage needs to be turned over often, the mussels do not need to be squeezed, and the pork needs to be seasoned while it boils. And of course, the amount of hot pepper is up to you. But believe me, it's worth it - this is a truly festive dish.
Recipe Ingredients
Cooking Recipe
To cook pork belly with two sauces, place the pork belly and other spices in a roasting pan, pre-cut the onion into four parts, and thinly slice the ginger. Add water, cover and cook for 1 hour over medium heat.
Now you can do the cabbage, divide it into separate leaves, wash and dry. Mix sugar, vinegar, salt and water in a large bowl. Add cabbage and mix well. Let it brew for 15 minutes, then mix again and turn over so that the leaves marinate evenly. Repeat this every 10-15 minutes for 1-2 hours until the cabbage is soft. Drain excess water and refrigerate cabbage until serving.
The turn has come to the daikon, it should be peeled and cut into thin strips. Mix the daikon with salt and set aside for 10 minutes, and then drain the excess liquid.
Remove the mussels from the freezer, rinse and drain excess liquid. Seasonings are needed for such a salad, mix ground hot pepper with fish sauce, chopped garlic, sugar and finely chopped green onions. Combine spices with daikon and mix well, then add mussels and mix gently. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
Shrimp sauce is also very easy to cook. Chop the garlic and green onion and combine with the rest of the ingredients.
About an hour has passed since the pork belly was cooked, now it should be turned over and left to cook for about 15 more minutes. Remove the cooked pork belly from the oven and let cool. When the pork belly has cooled, cut it into thin slices.
Now how to eat Bo-ssam. Place a cabbage leaf on a plate, top with a piece of pork belly, mussel salad and a little shrimp sauce. Roll everything neatly and immediately into your mouth. As you understand, the rolls should not be large so that they can be placed in the mouth without biting off.