Recipe: Lu rou fan, a beloved Taiwanese comfort food

Lu rou fan is a slow-braised-until-melting meat sauce, served over rice

Lu rou fan
Lu rou fan taken from Bowls & Broths: Build a Bowl of Flavour from Scratch by Pippa Middlehurst

A beloved Taiwanese comfort food, lu rou fan is a slow-braised-until-melting meat sauce, served over rice, says Pippa Middlehurst. The texture of the meat varies depending on the region, with chunkier hand-cut pieces of pork belly being more common in the south, and mince (ground pork) in the north. Sometimes it is served with hard-boiled eggs.

I first tried this dish in Taipei, served in a paper bowl with a small plastic spoon, with additional condiments on the table, says Middlehurst. This is my version of that much-loved dish.

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