Ingredients:

• Small Pork Ribs, 500 grams
• Hawthorn (山楂), 30 grams
• Tomato Sauce, 40 grams
• Salt, 10 grams
• Sugar, 30 grams
• Lotus Roots, 150 grams
• Vinegar, 30 grams
• Fresh Ginger, 20 grams

Preparations:

1. Cut small pork ribs into thumb sizes and marinate with salt and pickled ginger for 10 minutes.
2. Soak hawthorns with fresh ginger and hot boiling water for 5 minutes and set aside. 
3. Cut lotus roots into slices, blanch with lemon-water solution, rinse well and set aside.

Instructions:

1. In a Thermos® Shuttle Chef® inner pot, add cooking oil and stir fry marinated small pork ribs till golden brown.
2. Add tomato sauce, hawthorns-fresh ginger mixture, sugar, vinegar, lotus roots slices and bring the contents to a rapid boil over medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes.
3. When boiling, close the inner pot with lid and transfer it into the Shuttle Chef® outer pot. Let it sit aside for 90 minutes, before serving.

Photo and recipe courtesy of Thermos China.