4 Persons
Ingredients
- 600 g Pork belly
- 4 Garlic cloves
- 8 Shiitake mushrooms Dried
- 0,5 TL Chinese 5 spice powder
- 2-3 Star anise whole
- 1 Cassia cinnamon stick
- 0,5 TL White pepper whole
- 2-3 EL Fish sauce
- 3-4 EL Soya sauce
- 1 EL Palm sugar
- Water
- 4 Eggs Hard boiled
- Coriander fresh
Instructions
- Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in a little warm water. Sear the meat on all sides until brown. Finely chop the garlic and fry briefly with the meat. Add the cinnamon stick and star anise.
- Add the dried shiitake mushrooms with the soaking water, coarsely crushed white pepper, palm sugar, fish sauce and soya sauce to the meat. Pour in water or (chicken) stock.
- Leave everything together to simmer on a low heat for 2 to 2.5 hours until the meat is tender. In the meantime, hard-boil the eggs and mix them into the rest towards the end of the cooking time. Finally, flavour the sauce again.
- Arrange the braised pork and eggs in bowls, garnish with fresh coriander and serve with steamed jasmine rice.