Recipe of Award-winning Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)

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Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is something that I have loved my entire life.

Bak Kut Teh in the Hokkien or Fujianese dialect literally translates to Pork Rib Tea. Bak Kut Teh is best served hot with steamed rice or fragrant rice cooked with shallot or garlic, yew char kway (also known as as you tiao or Chinese crullers), and cut chilies in soy sauce. Bak Kut Teh, translated as Pork Bone Tea is a popular dish in Singapore. It is a simple, yet savory soup made of only a few ingredients; pork ribs, garlic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have 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):

1. Make ready Pork Soup Bone (Sin Guat)
2. Get Pork Ribs (Pai Guat)
3. Take Pork Shoulder (Jue Jiang)
4. Prepare Pork Throttle (Jue Shaou)
5. Prepare Chinese Herbs
6. Get Sun Kee Ready Pack BKT
7. Prepare Anglica Sinensis (Dong Guai)
8. Make ready Solomons Seal (Yuk Juk)
9. Get Codonopsis Root (Dong Sum)
10. Prepare Rehmannia (Suk Dai)
11. Prepare Star Anise
12. Make ready Cloves
13. Make ready Stick Cinnamon
14. Prepare Fennel Seeds
15. Get Black Dates
16. Make ready Wolfberries
17. Make ready Licorice Root (Kum Chou)
18. Make ready Ingredients
19. Make ready 3 Bulbs Smoke Garlic
20. Get 3 Bulbs Normal Garlic
21. Get 2 pcs thumb sized Ginger
22. Take Seasoning
23. Get 6 tbsp soy sauce
24. Make ready 3 tsp rock salt
25. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp crystal sugar

Dry Bak Kut Teh is made easy by pressure cooking the ribs and then finished cooking in a clay pot. Super delicious and easy to replicate at your very own kitchen. Place the pork ribs, shiitake mushrooms and the rest of the ingredients for bak kut teh in the inner pot of instant pot. Bak Kut Teh is one of the very popular dishes that people must try when they come to Singapore (Malaysia also has its own version, of course!).

Steps to make Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea):

1. 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.
2. Boil all the pork bones and meat in hot water for 20 minutes to remove scums, oil and smell. Set aside.
3. Boil 3 litres of water in a pot with all the herbs and soup bone for 30 minutes.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Place the pork ribs, shiitake mushrooms and the rest of the ingredients for bak kut teh in the inner pot of instant pot. Bak Kut Teh is one of the very popular dishes that people must try when they come to Singapore (Malaysia also has its own version, of course!). The name is literally translated as 'Meat Bone Tea', but the name is rather misleading because Bak Kut Teh does not actually contain any tea at all, it is. This pork ribs soup is intensely flavorful. A concoction of spices like peppercorn, salt, star anise, cloves, cinnamon, and lots of garlic And if you are familiar with Bah Kut Teh, you probably know that there are two versions of this Chinese spare ribs soup.

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