Thit Kho Tau
Southern Vietnamese braised pork belly and hard-boiled eggs in a sweet caramel coconut sauce.
- prep 15 min
- cook 130 min
- total 145 min
- serves 6
- intermediate
- Vietnam
Ingredients
- 1 kg pork belly
- 8 eggs
- 60 g sugar
- 700 ml coconut water
- 4 tbsp fish sauce
- 4 shallots
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 chili
- 1 tsp black pepper
Steps
- Cube pork belly, blanch 2 minutes, rinse.
- Caramelize sugar into deep amber, add water to stop.
- Add pork, fish sauce, shallots, garlic, coconut water.
- Simmer gently covered 90 minutes until pork is silky.
- Add peeled hard-boiled eggs, simmer 30 more minutes; scatter chili and pepper.
≈ 560 kcal · 28 g protein · 22 g carbs · 40 g fat — per serving, estimate