Food

Honey soy ribs

Jul 09 09:47am

Prep Time	Cook Time	Serves
15 mins	2 hours	4

Ingredients

6 pork ribs
1 brown onion, sliced
4 Tbsp light soy sauce
100ml oyster sauce
1 cup Chinese rice wine
4cm-piece fresh ginger,
finely sliced
4 garlic cloves, smashed
1 cinnamon stick
1Â½ tsp Chinese five-spice
powder
4 Tbsp honey
2 long red chillies, sliced
on the angle
1 tsp dried chilli flakes
1 bunch coriander, leaves
picked, to serve
Steamed or fried rice,
to serve

1 Preheat oven to 170ºC. Put ribs in a large ovenproof stove-top casserole or baking dish. Put onion, soy, oyster sauce, rice wine, 1 cup of water, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, five-spice powder, honey, chilli and chilli flakes in a medium mixing bowl and stir to combine. Pour the sauce mixture over ribs and bring to a simmer over a medium heat.

2 Cover dish and put in the oven. Cook ribs for 1½ hours. Increase the oven temperature to 200ºC, uncover dish and cook for 5-8 minutes or until ribs are browned.

3 Remove dish from oven and set ribs aside. Skim any fat from the liquid and discard the fat. Bring liquid to the boil and cook over a high heat until reduced and syrupy. Spoon the liquid over the ribs, scatter with the coriander leaves and serve with steamed or fried rice.

Photography by Chris L. Jones