Lu Rou Fan is one of my family’s favourite dish.  With just one dish and hot steaming rice, everyone will be quite happy digging in till the last drop.  With the added fuchuk, my youngest, Baby C, will finish her meal without hesitation.

With my favourite gadget in the kitchen, Philips Pressure Cooker, making Lu Rou Fan, become hassle free and cleaning up is so much easier.  I love my PPC!

Recipes are as below :

Ingredients required :

  • 500g Minced meat or minced chicken (I used Iberico minced pork bought from Ah Boy Pasar)
  • 2 tbsp Shao Hsing Hua Tiao Chiew
  • 1/2 tsp Sarawak pepper
  • 1 tbsp corn flour
  • 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tsp five spice powder
  • 1 tbsp cooking oil
  • 1 star anise
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 onion bulb – sliced
  • 2 cloves of garlic – chopped
  • 3 cups of water (you may adjust to your likings.  I like mine with lots of gravy 😁
  • salt to taste
  • 2tbsp brown sugar (I ran out of brown sugar and the picture will be showing substitude of sugar instead)

Methods  as below :

1. Marinate the minced meat with some salt, light soy sauce, Sarawak pepper and corn flour. Set aside for half hour.

2. Heat up PPC by choosing Bake Chicken Mode and then press  “Start” button.

3. Add cooking oil and once it bubbles, add in star anise and cinnamon stick.  Once it release the fragrant, add in onion and garlic and stir until slightly brown. Alternatively, if you have “Shallot Oil“, you may use that instead.

4. Add in marinated mince meat and stir until all turn whitish colour.

5. Add in five spice powder.

6. Add in dark soy sauce.

7. Add in oyster sauce and Hua Tiao Chiew.

8. Add in water and ready for pressure cook.

9. Add in some sugar.  As I ran out of brown sugar, I have to substitute with sugar instead.  You may adjust the sweetness to your likings.

10. Lastly,  add in the fried fuchuk.  These are readily available in a pack or alternatively, you may fried your own to be added in.

11. Close the PPC lid and choose the “Rice” Mode.  The preset time is 14 mins.  If you want to adjust the timer to 7 mins, which is sufficient, you may watch my video which contain the timing adjustment steps, ie “How to make Crispy Fried Shallot and Shallot Oil with pressure cooker – Easy Recipe“.

12. I manually release the pressure once the bipper is on.  If you are not using PPC, you may let it simmer for 30-40 minutes to get the “melt in your mouth” texture.

13. Add in salt to taste and you may also add on more dark sauce if you prefer darker colour dish.  To me, if it is not dark enough, it’s simply not so “ho chiak”, translated into not so tasty…So, I added a bit more to get the colour that I want.

14. Boiled eggs are optional.  But lu rou fan without boiled eggs just felt something’s missing.  Once they are added on, switch to “bake” mode and give it a boil and also to thicken the sauce.

Scoop a bowl for my daughter and she was in cloud 9.  hahahaha! Happy child, happy mommy too!

When the schooling babies reach home and saw the lu rou fan, they sneakily scoop a spoonful before going for shower……naughty naughty rascal….

I had my fair share eventhough I was trying very hard to be carbo-free for a while, I dig in few mouthful of rice, which is simply irressistable.  The minced meat taste awesome and melt in my mouth.  As the added fuchuk are fried fuchuk, the chewy texture compliments the rest.  I would love to have second serving but……I can’t afford the calories……. 

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