Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe)

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The ingredients needed to make Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe):

1. Take Main Ingredients
2. Prepare 3 slice Pork Belly
3. Prepare 3 tbsp Oil
4. Get 6 clove Garlic
5. Prepare 4 each Star-Anise
6. Make ready 1/2 tbsp Sichuan Peppercorns
7. Take 1/2 cup Honey
8. Take 1 can Chicken Stock
9. Take 1 small Ginger
10. Make ready 1/4 cup Thick Sweet Soy Sauce
11. Get 1/4 cup Light Soy Sauce
12. Take 1 stick Cinnamon
13. Take Optional Add-ons
14. Prepare 2 each Potato
15. Get 8 each Cooked Tofu Cubes

Steps to make Braised Chinese Pork Belly (Special Dongpo Recipe):

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Slice ginger into thin pieces. Dice 3 cloves of garlic into smaller pieces. Crush remaining 3 pieces of garlic.
3. Add oil into a roasting pan. Heat roast pan into medium heat.
4. Slice pork belly sticks into 3 individual pieces -resulting into 9 pieces. Make more if desired to make larger serving.
5. Once the roasting pan is heated, stir fry garlic, ginger, star-anise, sichuan peppercorn together with the oil in medium heat.
6. Once the pan is fragrant, slowly add the pork belly into its side one by one and sear it for about 20 seconds each side - with the bottom (opposite to fat side) being the last side to be seared.
7. Set the pork belly on their side and add honey all over the dish.
8. Expose all the sides of the pork belly to the honey-oil-mixture of ingredients.
9. Add chicken stock, soy sauce and sweet thick soy sauce to the mixture.
10. Again mix the pork belly and expose all its side to the stock-honey-oil-ingredients concoction.
11. Wait for the stock-honey-oil-ingredients to boil.
12. If it's boiling, remove from heat. Cover with foil and put it inside the oven. Set the timer to 1 hour and 30 minutes.
13. Depending on your desired add-on, add it to the roasting pan at the most appropriate time remaining. Example: Potato = 30 min. Cooked tofu cubes = 15 min.
14. Without turning off the oven, take out the pan at the around 45 min. - 1 hour mark and bring it to the range under medium-high heat to a boil. Let boil for 3-5 minutes then immediately bring it inside the oven again.

Foods That Make You Happy

Most of us have been conditioned to think that comfort foods are bad and should be avoided. However, if your comfort food is candy or junk food this is true. Other times, though, comfort foods can be completely nutritious and it’s good for you to consume them. There are a number of foods that, when you eat them, can better your mood. When you are feeling a little down and need an emotional pick-me-up, try some of these.

Eggs, you might be amazed to learn, are fantastic at fighting depression. You need to make sure, however, that what you make includes the yolk. The egg yolk is the most essential part of the egg iwhen it comes to helping raise your mood. Eggs, especially the egg yolks, are rich in B vitamins. B vitamins can genuinely help you improve your mood. This is because the B vitamins increase the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that dictate how you feel). Eat a few eggs to cheer up!

Put together a trail mixfrom different seeds and nuts. Your mood can be elevated by eating peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and so on. This is because these foods are high in magnesium, which helps to increase serotonin production. Serotonin is referred to as the “feel good” chemical and it tells your brain how you should be feeling at all times. The more serotonin you have, the better you are going to feel. Nuts, along with elevating your mood, can be a super source of protein.

If you would like to fight depression, try consuming some cold water fish. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, and so on, they’re all loaded with omega-3s and DHA. DHA and omega-3s are two things that improve the quality and the function of your brain’s gray matter. It’s true: eating a tuna fish sandwich can seriously boost your mood.

It’s not hard to overcome your bad mood when you are eating grains. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all actually wonderful for helping raise your happiness levels. They help you feel full as well which can truly help to better your mood. It’s not difficult to feel depressed when you feel famished! The reason these grains can improve your mood is that they are not hard for your stomach to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps jumpstart a rise in your glucose levels which in turn brings up your mood to a happier place.

Green tea is excellent for moods. You just knew green tea had to be included in this article, right? Green tea is rich in a specific amino acid called L-theanine. Studies have shown that this amino acid basically induces brain waves. This helps raise your mental acuity while having a relaxing effect on the rest of your body. You already knew that green tea helps you feel a lot healthier. Now you know that green tea can improve your mood as well!

Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you have to eat when you want to help your moods get better. Try a few of these instead!