Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)
Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bak kut teh (pork ribs tea). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 is a pork rib dish cooked in broth popularly served in Malaysia and Singapore where there is a predominant Hoklo and Teochew community, and also in neighbouring areas like Indonesia in Riau Islands and Southern Thailand. Bak Kut Teh, translated as Pork Bone Tea is a popular dish in Singapore.

Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bak kut teh (pork ribs tea) using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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. Bak kut teh, a Chinese pork soup dish, is one of the must-try foods in Singapore. Use our list to find the best bak kut teh versions in town.

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.

Bak kut teh, a Chinese pork soup dish, is one of the must-try foods in Singapore. Use our list to find the best bak kut teh versions in town. Literally translated as "meat bone tea", Bah Kut Teh consists of meaty pork ribs simmered in a complex broth of herbs and spices. Bak Kut Teh is a hearty Malaysian herbal soup made with an assortment of Malaysian and Chinese spices. Dry Bak Kut Teh is made easy by pressure cooking the ribs and then finished cooking in a clay pot.

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