Slow-Cooked "Melt in your Mouth" Pork Belly

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     1)It is the best pork belly you will ever have 2)So easy to make 3)Saves on your Energy Bill

All you need to make this "Melt in your Mouth" recipe is a nice piece of pork belly & a rice cooker (yes,you read correctly: a Rice Cooker). Well, more specifically you need a rice cooker with an automatic steam function. 
I have been using my Panasonic Rice Cooker for the past 15 years as a steamer for all things as well as a rice cooker (of course...hehe). Ok, let's get back to our easy peasy recipe of making a tender yet velvety in fat pork belly, you will need:

Ingredients
-A piece of 5 layered Pork Belly (it refers to equal distribution of fat & meat, because you can clearly count 5 layers)
-About a tsp of Coarse Sea Salt
-1/4 cup of Shaoxing wine (found in Chinese supermarkets, but ones we can buy here are salted so wonderful for cooking attributed to the fragrant smokiness of the salt penetrating the meat-not for drinking), Sherry or White wine
-A green onion

 

Lay a steamer tray (if you don't have one, just take a small bowl and place it upside down) at the bottom of your rice cooker and pour in 1/2 cup of water. Then, form a pocket by double wrapping 2 pieces of tin foil to properly seal the pork belly. But, before sealing place the pork belly in the foil, sprinkle enough coarse salt to loosely cover the skin, throw the green onion in by cutting it in half & lastly pour in the 1/4 cup of wine. 

Now the hard part is over, all you have to do is close the lid and press the Cook Rice Button on your cooker and open it up when you are ready for dinner the next day. 

*Give it at least 18-20 hrs, it sounds like a lot but remember there's no cooking involved on your part and saves energy too. That's why I usually place the pork belly in the cooker before heading to bed & "set it and forget it". If the cooker pops into the keep warm position, it's fine you don't need to do anything.

Doesn't it look beautiful? Go ahead and take a bite!