Sweet Soy Braised Pork Belly - Real Recipes from Mums

This Sweet Soy Braised Pork Belly is one of those Slow Cooker recipes that’s a sure crowd pleaser. Melt in your mouth pork belly braised in a lightly spiced sweet soy sauce.

Poh says “My favourite thing about making this in the Crock-Pot® Express Crock XL Multi-Cooker is you can just walk away and get on with other things. If you’re cooking for a dinner party, it’s one dish on the menu that requires no babysitting, and who doesn’t love that?”

Ingredients (serves 6)

2 tbsp Olive or vegetable oil
3 cloves Garlic, peeled, chopped or crushed
5cm Ginger, peeled, finely shredded
5 stalks Spring onions, finely sliced
100g White Sugar
4 tbsp Dark Soy
4 tbsp Light Soy
3 Star Anise
1 Stick Cinnamon
4 Cloves
150mL Shaoxin Rice Wine
1/2 cup Water
1kg Pork Belly, cut into 3cm pillars
3 bunches Broccolini, cut into roughly 6cm batons
3 cups Steamed Jasmine Rice

Method

Select SAUTÉ, then press START/STOP. Immediately combine the olive oil, garlic, ginger and spring onions in the Crock-Pot® Express Crock XL Multi-Cooker and cook until golden and fragrant.
Add the sugar, soy sauces, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, Shaoxin rice wine and water. Stir to ensure the sugar is not sitting on a clump on the bottom, then arrange the pork pieces evenly over the surface. Secure the lid ensuring the steam release valve is in the seal (closed) position. Press START/STOP.
Select MEAT/STEW. Press START/STOP.
Once the cooking process has finished, carefully release the pressure. When all the steam has escaped, remove the lid and nestle the broccolini through the pork, so it’s submerged in the sauce.
Secure the lid again to allow the broccoli to blanche for 5-10 minutes in the residual heat, until crunchy but not raw.
To serve, garnish the pork with the sliced spring onions and serve with steamed rice.

26 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 23 May 2023
    11:37 am
Sounds so very tasty. I love pork

- - mom488019 said
  - 11 May 2022
    5:56 pm
Ixused to hate cooking pork belly the Asian way as it would take hours….how I do this recipe in the Crockpot – it’s soft, tender and melts in your mouth and is done so quickly! Do yourself a favour – get a Crockpot express if haven’t already

- - caramello said
  - 29 Sep 2021
    8:55 am
looks amazing.

- - mom462038 said
  - 13 May 2021
    1:15 pm
Ooohhhh, another Poh recipe. Just love Pohs creations

- - Andy said
  - 30 Nov 2020
    4:54 pm
Makes my mouth water looking at it! Slow cookers are great at making meat tender!

- - mom470644 said
  - 17 Sep 2020
    3:07 pm
The recipe says to garnish with the spring onions though in Poh’s video definitely has them chopped and cooked with the pork. Trying this dish tonight so might do it both ways!

- - mom112217 said
  - 18 Jan 2020
    5:47 pm
Pork belly is a favourite to eat and l love this delicious meal!

- - kjgarner said
  - 30 Nov 2019
    10:15 pm
I need to get myself a slow cooker.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 29 Sep 2019
    7:14 pm
This multi cooker really is starting to sound amazing

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 29 Sep 2019
    7:13 pm
What a great way to do pork belly

- - mom371543 said
  - 22 Sep 2019
    5:08 pm
This looks so wonderful I can’t wait to try it love Asian food

- - mom90758 said
  - 02 Sep 2019
    3:25 pm
If it’s a recipe recommended by Poh, I am sure it’s amazing!!

- - mom62624 said
  - 17 Aug 2019
    10:27 pm
So delicious and full of flavour, great.

- - taynik46 said
  - 15 Aug 2019
    9:53 am
love that it is a walk away and forget kind of cooking!
the flavours sound amazing and who doesn’t love pork belly!

- - ella12 said
  - 12 Aug 2019
    2:47 pm
Not one for me but looks like it would be quite tasty.

- - rovermum said
  - 12 Aug 2019
    9:57 am
This looks delicious but I don’t have the ingredients. Most I’ve never used before.

- - mumma said
  - 11 Aug 2019
    1:00 pm
Sounds yum
How would I cook
This without the pressure cooker?
Just low and slow in a heavy cast iron?

- - mom129591 said
  - 10 Aug 2019
    2:29 am
Amazing succulent dish here. Thank you for this recipe, love it.

- - mom101628 said
  - 09 Aug 2019
    9:45 pm
Think I’d be doing what curlytops says and using pork shoulder for this recipe which just sounds wonderful. I’ll save my pork belly for roasting with a beautiful crunchy pork skin and slow roasted so that the fat drips out of the pork belly and the taste of the apple cider it is cooked over seeps through. Thanks for sharing Poh’s recipe as I will be having that too.

- - mom376182 said
  - 09 Aug 2019
    10:16 am
I made this last night. It was super delicious and enjoyed by the whole family. I will be making this one a lot in the future.