Star anis

One of the dishes inspired by Chinese or Cantonese cuisine, which is often prepared in the oven or in a steam kettle, but can also be successfully prepared on the ordinary kettle on a stove. Delicious and juicy meat in a relatively spicy sauce. This food is good to serve with rice, rice noodles or with wok vegetables. It takes time to soften the meat, but it is worth trying.

Preparation time: about 2.5 hours
Level: easy
Serves: four

Ingredients:
600 g of pork ribs
2 medium onions, chopped
6-7 medium garlic cloves chopped
Thumb-sized pieces of ginger chopped
3 dried chilies (also suitable for raw)
4 tablespoons Hoisin sauce
100 ml soy sauces
2 cinnamon sticks about 5 cm long
1-2 star anise
cooking oil for browning the meat

Preparation:
1. Chop onions, garlic, and ginger
2. Heat the oil in a thick-bottomed saucepan, cut the ribs into pieces between the bones. Brown for about 5 minutes. Add two cinnamon sticks about 5 cm long and 1-2 star anise to the browning. Brown and set aside.
3. Add onion, garlic, ginger to hot oil, brown for a few minutes, add the meat with cinnamon sticks and star anise, and also add whole chilies
4. Add 4 tablespoons of Hoisin sauce and 100 ml of sauce and water until it almost covers the meat. Simmer on low heat under the lid for about 2 hours until the meat becomes very tender.
5. Remove the lid within the last hour and let the sauce evaporate and thicken
6. Serve with either basmati or sticky rice, or you can wok vegetables.
Done !!!