Pressure cooker pork belly and noodles

Dear Reader,

I missed a post last week because I spent the weekend with my girlfriend, so you get two posts this weekend. Yesterday I cooked some lamb.

One of the benefits of replacing the old microwave oven is I can now use my microwave radiation pressure cooker again.

Ingredients

• Pork belly
• Iodised salt
• Ground white pepper
• Ground Chinese five-spice
• Ground coriander seeds
• Ground cardamom
• Ground cinnamon
• Ground rosemary leaves
• Ground nutmeg
• Star anise
• Instant noodles
• Peanut oil
• Sesame oil
• Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
• Shallots
• Garlic
• Spring onions
• Red chillies
• Ginger
• Laksa paste

Instructions

1. Before cooking the dish, season the belly pork with salt, pepper, Chinese five-spice, ground cardamom, ground coriander seeds, ground rosemary leaves, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg, seal the meat in a vacuum bag and refrigerate overnight.
2. On the day you cook the dish, place the pork belly into the pressure cooker.
3. Add about a litre of water and add some laksa paste, crushed ginger, and star anise.
4. Cook in the pressure cooker using microwave radiation for twenty minutes.
5. Open the vessel and remove the meat when the pressure cooker has reached atmospheric pressure.
6. Transfer the cooking liquor to a saucepan and bring it to a boil.
7. Add the noodles and cook for a couple of minutes.
8. Drain the noodles and use chopsticks to ensure the noodles aren’t sticking.
9. Dice the cooked pork belly.
10. Heat the wok.
11. Add some peanut oil.
12. Add chopped shallots and garlic. Stir fry until fragrant.
13. Add in the diced pork belly pieces and stir fry.
14. Add in some sesame oil and then the noodles.
15. Stir through the noodles to absorb the oily garlic and shallot flavours. Get the noodles and pork entangled in each other.
16. Sprinkle in a good pinch of MSG to enhance the flavour. Keep stir-frying.
17. Turn off the heat and add in the spring onions and chillies.
18. Give thanks to the Lord.
19. Serve in a bowl and eat with chopsticks and a spoon.

Final thoughts

This post is a quickie; please let me know what you think.