Thit kho

Pork belly with caramelized sauce and boiled egg.

Thit kho

Servings:	Serves 4
Calories per serving:	714
Ready in:	1 hour 10 minutes
Prep. time:	10 minutes
Cook time:	1 hour
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	JuliaBalbilla
First published:	21st January 2013

Best recipe review Don't think you live in Turkey Julia! 4.6/5 Neither do you eat bacon, I'm certain - nice recipe though! Jerry

Ingredients

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• 500g pork belly - as I live in Turkey I get Bulgarian "bakon"
• 2 tablespoons sugar - I like brown sugar for more flavour
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• black pepper - fresh coarsely ground
• water - coconut juice is sweeter
• 3 boiled eggs

Mise en place

• Boil the eggs, peel and set aside for later.
• Cut the pork belly into 2cm chunks.

Method

1. First caramelise the sugar: put a couple of tablespoons of sugar in the bottom of a small pot and add a little water. Apply medium low heat and wait until it turns brown, thick and bubbly.
2. Add the chunks of pork belly, a tablespoon each of fish sauce and soy sauce, and a tablespoon of black pepper. At this point also add some water or coconut water if available. Add just enough liquid to reach the top of the pork chunks.
3. Simmer until almost fully cooked and add the boiled eggs. Make sure to stir them so they turn brown all over and soak up the sauce.
4. When the pork is cooked and shrunk it's ready!

Serving suggestions

Best served with freshly cooked rice.

Variations

I'm sure there are many variations of this recipe. I find this to be the easiest that I can do here in Turkey surrounded by non pork eaters who couldn't point to Vietnam on a map.

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