Braised Recipes
Perfect your cooking with these braised dishes. Automatically curated for you from our central database!

Red Braised Pork Belly (Hong Shao Rou)
The Chairman's favorite dish. Incredible sticky, sweet, and savory cubes of pork belly that melt in your mouth, braised in soy sauce, wine, and caramelized sugar.

Gua Bao (Taiwanese Pork Belly Buns)
Fluffy, pillowy steamed lotus leaf buns stuffed with melt-in-your-mouth red braised pork belly, pickled mustard greens, cilantro, and crushed peanuts.

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
A deeply savory, comforting bowl of tender braised beef shank, chewy wheat noodles, and a rich, spiced dark broth.

Lu Rou Fan (Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice)
The ultimate Taiwanese comfort bowl. Minced pork belly slowly braised in soy sauce, rice wine, five-spice, and fried shallots, served over hot rice with a braised egg.

Mantou (Plain Steamed Buns)
The classic Northern Chinese staple. Soft, slightly sweet, and utterly comforting blank-canvas steamed buns that pair with everything.

Sri Lankan Lamprais
A legendary Dutch Burgher-influenced Sri Lankan feast — rice cooked in stock, bundled with multiple curries, sambol, and a fried brinjal inside a banana leaf parcel and steamed until perfectly melded together.

Italian Seppie in Umido con Piselli (Cuttlefish with Peas)
A comforting seafood stew. Tender cuttlefish braised in a light tomato sauce, paired with the sweetness of green peas.

Italian Maiale al Latte (Pork Braised in Milk)
A magical Northern Italian dish where a pork loin is slowly simmered in milk. The milk curdles into a savory, nutty, golden-brown caramel sauce that is incredibly delicious.

Italian Coda alla Vaccinara (Roman Oxtail Stew)
The ultimate Roman 'quinto quarto' (offal) dish. Oxtail slowly stewed for hours in tomatoes, celery, and white wine until the meat melts off the bone.

Italian Brasato al Barolo (Beef Braised in Barolo Wine)
The crown jewel of Piedmontese cuisine. A large cut of beef marinated and slowly braised in a whole bottle of noble Barolo wine until it falls apart.

Italian Cinghiale in Umido (Wild Boar Stew)
A deeply savory, intense Tuscan stew made from wild boar braised slowly in red wine, tomatoes, juniper berries, and herbs.

Italian Pollo alla Cacciatora (Hunter's Chicken)
A rustic, robust 'hunter-style' chicken braise, cooked with tomatoes, onions, herbs, and wine. A staple of countryside Italian cooking.
