Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)
by Bessie Riley
Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)
Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bak kut teh (pork ribs tea). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bak kut teh (pork ribs tea) using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea):
Prepare Pork Soup Bone (Sin Guat)
Prepare Pork Ribs (Pai Guat)
Get Pork Shoulder (Jue Jiang)
Take Pork Throttle (Jue Shaou)
Take Chinese Herbs
Make ready Sun Kee Ready Pack BKT
Take Anglica Sinensis (Dong Guai)
Make ready Solomons Seal (Yuk Juk)
Make ready Codonopsis Root (Dong Sum)
Prepare Rehmannia (Suk Dai)
Take Star Anise
Get Cloves
Take Stick Cinnamon
Get Fennel Seeds
Make ready Black Dates
Take Wolfberries
Take Licorice Root (Kum Chou)
Make ready Ingredients
Get 3 Bulbs Smoke Garlic
Prepare 3 Bulbs Normal Garlic
Take 2 pcs thumb sized Ginger
Make ready Seasoning
Get 6 tbsp soy sauce
Make ready 3 tsp rock salt
Get 1 1/2 tsp crystal sugar
Instructions to make Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea):
Bak Kut Teh herbs can be purchased from local Chinese herbal shop or super market. These herbs now comes with different brands. We mix a packet of ready made packet of mixed herbs in a sachet and picked some herbs from a local herbal shop for this. Some herbs make the soup black in color while some in light brown. Teo Chew BKT will be very light grey.
Boil all the pork bones and meat in hot water for 20 minutes to remove scums, oil and smell. Set aside.
Boil 3 litres of water in a pot with all the herbs and soup bone for 30 minutes.
Put in the rest of the pork meat, garlic and ginger into the pot and boil for another 20 minutes. Add in salt and soy sauce and boil for another 10 minutes.
Turn off fire. Let the pot cool down and keep in the fridge overnight. Alternatively if you have a keep warm thermos pot you can keep in there. This overnight process will marinate the herbal soup and seasoning into the meat.
After overnight, boil the pot. When the pot is hot, add in sugar. Adjust to taste. The soup should taste little salty and sweet. Let it simmer in slow cook for 3 hours and serve. You can add in other optional items such as tofu pok, emoki mushroom or vege. Goes well with white rice and soy sauce with garlic and chili padi.
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