Steam Ribs with Black Bean Paste and Garlic

I love this recipe, learned it from "Ah Soh (Hong Kong Actress)" and decided to try it out.

Its quite easy to make it actually, just that the measurement of all ingredients and sauces are a bit tricky, a bit difficult to adjust the portions of them, therefore, this dish is also through 6th sense.

Ingredients:
Spare ribs
Preservered Black Beans
Garlic
Chilli

Sauce to marinate:
Black Soy Sauce
Soy sauce
Sugar
White pepper
Ground black pepper
Corn starch
Sesame oil
Oil
Water

1. Bash the beans to paste-like with the handle of the knife (no pounder, therefore the alternative :) ).

2. Chop the garlic till its really really fine. And I do mean really fine, you don't wanna eat bits and pieces of garlic together with the ribs.

3. Marinated the ribs. (Tips: 1st marinate the ribs with the sauces mention above except for the sesame oil, oil, corn starch, water. This is to ensure that all the flavours could seep through the meat. After half and hour or an hour, then only add the remaining)

4. Place it in a plate (metal or porcelein that could withstand heat).

5. Sprinkle some chopped chillis on top.

6. Depends on your portion of ribs, if its lesser, then steam for about 20 minutes. But for this plate, I steamed for approximately 35 minutes. Remember not to stack the ribs. Space them out for even cooking.

7. There you go. And remember not to add too much water while marinating the ribs as they would end up as the above, ribs swimming in water -__-

8. This is the yummiest pork ribs that I'd ever cooked. No smelly porky taste at all and I didn't even use garlic.

Woohoo... that's a meal.

To all who had express their concerns, thank you very very very much. I really appreciate it as you comment had made me stronger, I swear. Thanks once again. Love you guys/ladies.