Red Cooked Pork

March 30, 2019

Red Cooked Pork

Red cooked pork, a classic Chinese dish also known as Hong Shao Rou, is made with tender braised pork coated in a silky red sauce made from soy sauce, ginger, garlic, rice wine, and sugar.

A bowl of rice topped with red cooked pork and a pair of chopsticks resting on the bowl. A plate of red cooked pork on the side

Adapted from Cynthia Chen McTernan | A Common Table | Rodale Books, 2018

Red cooked pork, or Hong Shao Rou, is a trademark Chinese dish named for the glossy sauce that clings to sigh-inducingly tender braised pork. Our testers couldn’t get enough of the...

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