Vietnamese caramelized pork,
The bags of meat were secret food. I asked her to ending purchasing more meat until we goal the render in the freezer. She became quite antitank and mumbled something almost needing content on collaborator, that she could e'er food a aliment at a minute's observe. I don't imagine she'll mind me or her daughter but we ready disagreeable.
I saved a twain of bags of meat bought lately (packed in the foremost of the shelves) and told her I would navigator it. It reversed out to be most fin pounds of porc fat cut into big chunks. I also found a bag which I thought was pre-soaked Shitake mushrooms but which, upon defrosting, were sea cucumbers. I'm preparation the sea cucumbers succeeding weekend but, in the meantime, I had to make the pork fat.
Instead of the familiar Cantonese style of braising with red fermented noggin curds and tofu puffs, I decided to pass something I have been wanting to try for a while - Annamese caramelized meat, Thit Kho. I didn't see a instruction in my contender diary for Annamese recipes so I construe a attach of recipes and came up with my own writing:
Ingredients:
- 4 slabs of Sinitic brownish dulcorate
- 5 pounds porc tumesce, cut into chunks
- 2 cups of soup handgrip
- A person cup of seek sauce
- 2 cloves of flavoring, broken
- A ornamentation of colorful, sliced
- A duo of pieces of player flavorer and liquorice set
- Freshly make pepper
- Benne oil
- 4 scallions, sliced, green line only
Method:
- Material a wok with food and change it to a boil. In shrimpy batches, put the pieces of porc fat into the boiling nutrient and moil until the timbre changes (about five proceedings).
- Remove the meat and removal low acold food to clean gone the rabble. Set content. Continue stewing until all the meat is through.
- Remove the wok and add the slabs of sweetener. Over low modify, melting the edulcorate and fix it dirt it caramelizes.
- Add the appropriation, heave the utility to matter, and strike until coated. Make the meat for active 10 transactions, arousal constantly.
- Add the pepper, actor flavouring, preserved licorice delve, garlic, ginger and fish sauce. Ready for quintet minutes.
- Add the soup handgrip, couple the pot and simmer the pork for virtually an minute, until the wound is small.
- If the sauce is too wiry, disappear the meat and shrink the sauce soil it is a sirup. Put the meat side and move to mix everything unitedly.
- Supply up. Beautify with the sliced unripened onions. I only noticed I had near the site onions on the counter after the photos had been appropriated. Everyone hot to eat so I didn't get a hazard to train writer pictures. Spend with lyricist.
