Thit heo kho tieu (five-spice caramel pork)
- 09.03.2017
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Satisfy a crowd with this easy Asian pork recipe.
Recipe «Thit heo kho tieu (five-spice caramel pork)» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 1:50 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author sheff would need: 1 tbsp peanut oil, 1 pork belly, cut into 3cm pieces, 8 purple eschalots, finely chopped, 2 garlic cloves, crushed, 60ml light soy sauce , 125g finely chopped palm sugar, 250ml water, 2 whole star anise , 1 tsp Chinese five-spice, 1 tbsp fish sauce, 8 green shallots, ends trimmed, thinly sliced diagonally, Steamed jasmine rice, to serve, 1 Lebanese cucumber, ends trimmed, thinly sliced, 1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp peanut oil
- 1 pork belly, cut into 3cm pieces
- 8 purple eschalots, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 60ml light soy sauce
- 125g finely chopped palm sugar
- 250ml water
- 2 whole star anise
- 1 tsp Chinese five-spice
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 8 green shallots, ends trimmed, thinly sliced diagonally
- Steamed jasmine rice, to serve
- 1 Lebanese cucumber, ends trimmed, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves
Instructions
- Heat half the oil in a wok over high heat. Add one-third of the pork and stir-fry for 5 minutes or until brown all over. Transfer to a plate. Repeat, in 2 more batches, with the remaining pork.
- Heat remaining oil in wok over medium heat. Add eschalot and garlic and cook for 5 minutes or until golden. Add pork, soy sauce, palm sugar, water, star anise and five spice. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, for 1 1/2 hours or until pork is tender. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Cook for 10 minutes or until sauce thickens.
- Add the fish sauce and half the shallot and stir to combine. Place in a serving bowl. Top with remaining shallot. Serve with steamed rice topped with cucumber and coriander leaves.