Thit heo kho tieu (five-spice caramel pork)

Recipes / Meat

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.