Sweet & Sour Spare Ribs

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 320 g spareribs
• 7 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/2 tablespoon sugar
• 1 1/4 tablespoons sour plum sauce
• 3/4 tablespoon preserved soya bean paste
• 1 teaspoon cornflour
• 2 fresh small-sized red chilies
• 6 shallots
• 1 1/2 slices gingerroot
• 4 garlic cloves
• rice

Recipe

• 1 rinse spare ribs with running water.
• 2 cut spare ribs into 6 cm pieces.
• 3 add garlic, ginger and shallots into a mortar.
• 4 use the pestle to pound the mixture.
• 5 add the vegetable oil into the pan.
• 6 heat oil before cooking the spare ribs.
• 7 put in the pounded mixture and stir until fragrant.
• 8 add in the preserved soya bean paste and spare ribs.
• 9 stir for one minute.
• 10 put in 1 1/2 rice bowls of water, chili, light soya sauce, sour plum sauce and sugar.
• 11 simmer until spare ribs are tender cooked.
• 12 dissolve the cornflour in 1 1/2 tablespoons of water.
• 13 add in the diluted cornflour to the pan.
• 14 when the gravy starts to thicken, remove from heat.
• 15 serve the sweet & sour spare ribs while hot with plain steamed rice.