Vietnamese Braised Pork with Eggs (Thit Kho)

PREP TIME:
1 hour

SERVES:

6 to 8

TOTAL COOKING TIME:

4 hours
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INGREDIENTS
  • 3 lbs pork butt with skin
  • 1 dozen eggs
  • 1 can (10.5 oz) bamboo shoots (Wei-Chuan)
  • 2 sweet onions, sliced
  • 1 bunch of scallion head, cut into 1” pieces long
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • 1 tsp sugar rocks
  • 1 can (16.5 oz) coconut juice
  • 1/8 cup fish sauce
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 1 tsp mushroom seasoning
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 cloves fresh garlic, sliced
  • 1 tbsp fresh garlic, thinly sliced
  • 1 tbsp dried diced onion
  • 1 tbsp dried diced garlic
  • 1 tbsp onion powder
  • 1/8 black pepper
  • Chopped scallion (garnish)
  • 3 cups white rice

DIRECTIONS

  1. 1.
    Clean pork with cold water. Remove excess fat and debone pork. Cut pork into roughly 2" pieces.
  2. 2.
    Place pork into a large mixing bowl. Add mushroom seasoning, dried diced onion, dried diced garlic, onion powder, sesame oil, black pepper. Mix pork and spices well. Marinade in refrigerator for 1 hour.
  3. 3.
    Boil a medium pot of water. Add eggs and cook for 10 min. Drain and move eggs into another pot with cold water. Break the shelves for hard-boiled eggs.
  4. 4.
    Using a large non-stick pan, add olive oil over medium heat. Add diced garlic and cook until golden brown. Add hard boiled eggs to cook for 2 min on each side or until egg turn golden brown. Remove eggs and put aside.
  5. 5.
    Using same non-stick pan, add olive oil over medium heat. Add remaining diced garlic and cook until golden brown. Add marinated pork from Step 2. Cook 1-2 minutes on each side until golden brown. Remove pork from heat.
  6. 6.
    Using a large pot, add marinated pork, bamboo shoots, coconut juice, fish sauce, cut scallion white parts, sugar rocks, brown sugar, sliced garlic cloves and fried hard-boiled eggs from Step 3.
  7. 7.
    Cook pork on low heat for 4 hours until pork meat is tender. Ready to serve over white rice. Add remaining chopped scallion for garnish.