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Sticky Pork Belly Bao Buns
Soft steamed bao buns filled with slow-cooked sticky pork belly, quick-pickled cucumber, and sriracha mayo.
Method
- 1Brown pork; cook in hoisin, soy, honey, and water in a lidded pot 1 hr 20 min.
- 2Steam bao buns per packet.
- 3Assemble: bun, sriracha mayo, pork, pickled cucumber, spring onion, coriander.
Why it might be useful today
A practical protein anchor when the day needs something more substantial.
Bao buns are a genuinely celebratory dinner that can be batch cooked — the braised pork freezes brilliantly and bao steaming takes 8 minutes.
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