Vietnamese Caramelised Pork (Thit Kho)

Name: Vietnamese Caramelised Pork (Thit Kho)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 1 lb pork belly, cubed; 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled; 2 tbsp sugar; ¼ cup fish sauce; 1 cup young coconut juice or water; 2 cloves garlic; black pepper to taste; steamed rice to serve

Vietnamese braised pork belly and eggs in a coconut-caramel-fish sauce broth. Cooking the sugar all the way to a deep amber before the pork goes in gives thit kho its distinctive bittersweet depth instead of tasting simply sweet.

Total time

65 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

55 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Asian

comfort

Ingredients

1 lbpork belly, cubed

4hard-boiled eggs, peeled

2 tbspsugar

¼ cupfish sauce

1 cupyoung coconut juice or water

2 clovesgarlic

black pepperto taste

steamed riceto serve

Instructions

Caramelise sugar in pot until amber.

Add pork; stir to coat in caramel.

Add coconut juice, fish sauce, garlic, and pepper.

Simmer covered 30 min; add eggs; cook 15 more min uncovered until sauce thickens.

Serve over steamed rice.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

712

Protein

20g

Fat

65.4g

Carbs

9.5g

Fiber

Sodium

4742mg

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