Simple Way to Make Award-winning Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)
by Alan Bridges
Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bak kut teh (pork ribs tea). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook bak kut teh (pork ribs tea) using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea):
Make ready Pork Soup Bone (Sin Guat)
Get Pork Ribs (Pai Guat)
Take Pork Shoulder (Jue Jiang)
Take Pork Throttle (Jue Shaou)
Get Chinese Herbs
Make ready Sun Kee Ready Pack BKT
Take Anglica Sinensis (Dong Guai)
Make ready Solomons Seal (Yuk Juk)
Get Codonopsis Root (Dong Sum)
Prepare Rehmannia (Suk Dai)
Get Star Anise
Take Cloves
Make ready Stick Cinnamon
Take Fennel Seeds
Take Black Dates
Make ready Wolfberries
Get Licorice Root (Kum Chou)
Make ready Ingredients
Prepare 3 Bulbs Smoke Garlic
Make ready 3 Bulbs Normal Garlic
Make ready 2 pcs thumb sized Ginger
Take Seasoning
Prepare 6 tbsp soy sauce
Make ready 3 tsp rock salt
Take 1 1/2 tsp crystal sugar
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.
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