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

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Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) is a Chinese herbal soup with dong gui known for its warming properties. This comforting dish is perfect for the colder months. Bak Kut Teh in the Hokkien or Fujianese dialect literally translates to Pork Rib Tea.

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

These herbs now comes with different brands. Some herbs make the soup black in color while some in light brown. Pork Ribs Tea - Bah Kut Teh (肉骨茶) If you have traveled to Singapore or Malaysia, one famous Chinese soup you are bound to have heard of is Bah Kut Teh. This soup, which literally translates to "Meat Bone Tea (肉骨茶)" from the Teochew language, is a deeply flavorful pork ribs broth that contains no tea (despite the name).

Instructions 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 (BKT) in Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) literally means Pork Rib Tea. Nowadays, most grocery stores and supermarkets in Malaysia and Singapore carry the sachets which contains the powdered herbal mix ready to be used. 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 actually a soup! Bak Kut Teh can be translated as meat bone tea or pork rib tea.

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