Easiest Way to Prepare Ultimate Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea)

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Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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):

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

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.

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