Yen Can Cook ~ Passion Fruit Pork Ribs

Fruit obviously lends itself to desserts. Fruit pies, fruit crumbles, fruit crisps,  fruit compote on cake, fruit in ice cream, fruit on its own. But when fruits combined with the right ingredients, they can take on a savory flavor that’s far from dessert territory — and just as good. The favourites that come to mind are the Gu Lou Yoke (sweet and sour pork), Som Tum (Thai papaya salad), Pineapple Prawn Curry, Baked Lemon Butter Salmon, Apple Pork Chop, and Watermelon Gazpacho.

I really adore those aforementioned dishes which are brilliantly infused with refreshing fruity note. There are also a few fruit related soup recipes in my list that I’ve shared previously like Starfuit Soup, Coconut Chicken Soup and Monkey Head Mushrooms and Green Papaya Soup.

Today’s Passion Fruit Pork Ribs is one of my recent favourite recipes which I’ll strongly suggest that you shouldn’t miss! In this post, I also introduce you guys a new method to clean pork ribs/chicken which doesn’t involve blanching which I always use for my soup recipes.

Ingredients (Serve: 3-4)

500g pork ribs

1/4 thumb-sized ginger, sliced

Cooking oil

How to clean pork ribs

Step 1: Rinse the pork ribs in water then put in a container.

Step 2: Add in multipurpose flour (not in ingredient list) enough to completely cover the pork ribs.

Step 3: Massage the flour into pork ribs, removing slime as you go. The flour will clump to the slime and strip it from the pork ribs.

Step 4: Rinse and clean the chicken with running water to make sure all flour and residue is removed.

Marinade

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

Cooking oil

Chopped spring onion (optional)

Sauce

2 tablespoon soy sauce

1 tablespoon vinegar

15g rock sugar

3 passion fruits, scoop out the fruit pulp and separate into 2 portions

250-300ml water

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Step 1: In a bowl add in pork ribs, sat and pepper, mix well. Add in cooking oil and rub evenly on pork ribs to seal the flavour of the marinade into the meal. Leave to marinate for at least 20 minutes in fridge.

Step 2: Take out the pork ribs and bring to room temperature. Heat up cooking oil in wok/skillet, pan fry the marinated pork ribs (Step 1) until golden brown on both side. 

Step 3: Add in sliced ginger, soy sauce, vinegar, rock sugar, water and HALF portion of the passion fruit pulp, bring it to boil over medium heat, turn to low heat and simmer  for 30 minutes.

Step 4: Add in the remaining passion fruit pulp, turn to high heat, stir and the the sauce has thicken to your preferred consistency.

Step 5: Garnish with chopped spring onion and serve.

HAPPY COOKING!  #stayhealthy #staysafe

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