Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bak kut teh (pork ribs tea). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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):
- Get Pork Soup Bone (Sin Guat)
- Take Pork Ribs (Pai Guat)
- Make ready Pork Shoulder (Jue Jiang)
- Get Pork Throttle (Jue Shaou)
- Make ready Chinese Herbs
- Take Sun Kee Ready Pack BKT
- Take Anglica Sinensis (Dong Guai)
- Prepare Solomons Seal (Yuk Juk)
- Make ready Codonopsis Root (Dong Sum)
- Take Rehmannia (Suk Dai)
- Take Star Anise
- Prepare Cloves
- Prepare Stick Cinnamon
- Make ready Fennel Seeds
- Prepare Black Dates
- Get Wolfberries
- Make ready Licorice Root (Kum Chou)
- Make ready Ingredients
- Prepare 3 Bulbs Smoke Garlic
- Make ready 3 Bulbs Normal Garlic
- Get 2 pcs thumb sized Ginger
- Take Seasoning
- Prepare 6 tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 3 tsp rock salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp crystal sugar
Bak Kut Teh means Ribs Tea in Hokkien. Its origin came from Klang, Malaysia. Today in Klang and Kuala Lumpur, branched out many different taste and style of BKT. Bak Kut Tea (肉骨茶) or Pork Bone Tea is a Chinese-Malaysian soup dish.
Steps 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.
Infused with herbs such as Dong Quai, cinnamon, star anise, and made with pork ribs, dried Shitake mushrooms, tofu puffs and garlic, Bak Kut Teh soup fills the kitchen with evocative scents. This recipe takes a couple hours of slow boiling but the end result is so delicious. Bak Kut Teh (BKT) in Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) literally means Pork Rib Tea. Nowadays, most grocery stores and supermarkets in Malaysia and Singapore carry the sachets which contains the powdered herbal mix ready to… The fall-off-the-bone pork ribs make for easy eating! It also goes great with chilli with dark soy sauce.
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