Stir-fried Cabbage with Pork Belly

This stir-fried Cabbage with Pork Belly is especially easy, healthy, and delicious. A pork belly stir fry recipe that starts with the pork belly chunks, sauteed with aromatics like garlic and onions. Add in oyster sauce, and water to simmer the pork until tender, some carrots, fish sauce, and pepper to taste. Then mix in the roughly chopped cabbage with some bell peppers. Try out this simple stir fried cabbage with pork belly.

Stir-fried Cabbage with Pork Belly Recipe :

Ingredients

• 600 grams cabbage
• 300 grams pork belly
• 3 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 1 medium onion ( sliced )
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• ½ cup water
• 1 small carrot ( julienned )
• Fish sauce to taste
• Pepper to taste
• 1 small red bell pepper ( julienned )

Steps:

1. Use half a cabbage, remove the core, then sliced into chunks. Give it a good wash and set aside.
2. Cut the pork belly into smaller pieces and saute at high heat till these turn light brown and the fats have rendered. Add in the garlic and onions, cook until aromatic before pouring in the oyster sauce and water.
3. Give these a good mix before covering and letting this simmer for 10 – 15 minutes or till pork is tender. Add in carrots  and cook until tender. Season with pepper, fish sauce, and some bell peppers. 
4. Mix well before adding in the chopped cabbage. Saute till the cabbage wilts. Serve while hot.

How to make this Easy Stir Fried Cabbage with Pork Belly Recipe ?

This Cabbage  recipe or “Repolyo Recipe” is a tasty dish that’s filled with fiber, many more nutritious ingredients you can easily find at home or quickly buy at every supermarket. This recipe is derived from the Chinese Stir Fried Cabbage with Pork Belly dish from Hubei restaurants in China, cooked as a ‘Dry Pot Cabbage”, having no water at all.  A dish that highlights the main ingredient, the cabbage even if there are some pork belly included. The silky-ness of the cabbage that soaks up the sauce so well makes it even better.

This “Ginisang Repolyo with Pork Recipe” in Filipino is a Yummy dish that just takes a few minutes to make. Saute the pork belly chunks in a hot pan till the fats render, using the oil to saute the garlic and onions, adding oyster sauce for a silky savory taste and some water to help simmer the pork till it turns tender. Cover and simmer for a few  minutes, this depends on how thick the pork has been chopped. The quickest would be 10 – 15 minutes and the longest might take around 30 minutes. Add in the carrots for color and a bit of natural sweetness, season with some black pepper, and fish sauce as a substitute to salt, then lastly bell pepper for an extra pop of color and slight crunch. Lastly, add the chopped cabbages and cook these till it wilts and most of the sauce has been absorbed by the leaves. Serve hot, with some rice on the side.

Questions ?

• Additional ingredients for this Pork and Cabbage Stir Fry Recipe
  • For a ginisang repolyo without meat; use hard tofu instead of meat.
  • Or for added protein that is not a ‘meat’ scramble an egg and pour this in a dish while whisking to make “Ginisang Repolyo with Egg”.
  • For fillers to add, shred or slice some potatoes for a “Repolyo Fuisado with Pork Belly and Potatoes”. You can also add other vegetables like mushrooms, corn, any other additional leafy veggies.

• How to make it a Korean Cabbage Stir Fry

To make this stir fry pork with cabbage and carrots with a Korean flair, try adding a teaspoon or half a tablespoon of gochujang paste. This version does not have any meat and is served as a ‘banchan’ or ‘side dish’.

• How to make it a Chinese Pork and Cabbage Stir Fry

For this recipe, there’s an added spice with the help of dried chilies or chili flakes, and aside from oyster sauce, Shaoxing wine, sugar, and Chinese black vinegar is added into the sauce.

Other Yummy Cabbage Recipes!

• Stir-fry Cabbage with Kikiam
• Cabbage Pizza
• Cabbage Balls or Cabbage Rolls
• Tuna with Cabbage and Sayote ( Chayote )
• Cabbage and Pork Soup
• Cabbage Omelette ( Tortang Repolyo )
• Chop Suey ( a FIlipino sauteed mixed vegetable dish )

Stir-fried Cabbage with Pork Belly Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 600 gramo repolyo
• 300 gramo pork belly
• 3  butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 1 sibuyas ( hiniwa )
• 1 kutsarang oyster sauce
• ½ tasa tubig
• 1 karot ( hiniwa ng maninipis )
• Patis panlasa
• Paminta Panlasa
• 1 pulang kampanilyang paminta ( hiniwa ng maninipis )

Paano Lutuin :

1. Gamit ang kalahati ng repolyo, tanggalin ang gina nito at hiwain ng malaking piraso. Hugasin at itabi.
2. Hiwain ang mga pork belly ng maliit at lutuin sa mataas na init hanggang mag kayumanggi at matunaw ang mga taba. Haluan ng bawang at sibuyas, lutuin hanggang mabango bago haluan ng oyster sauce at tubig.
3. Haluin ng mabuti bago takpan at kuluin ng 10 – 15 minuto o hanggang lumambot ang mga baboy. Dagdagan ng karot at lutuin hanggang malambot. Haluan ng paminta, patis, at mga kampanilyang paminta.
4. Haluin ng mabuti bago dagdagan ng repolyo. Lutuin hanggang lumanta. Ihanda habang mainit pa.