卤肉蛋 (Braised pork and hard boiled eggs)


I bet everyone has grown up eating this dish "卤肉蛋” or "Tau Yu Bak" in "Hokkien" dialect. Today, this dish are my kid's favorite.  They love the hard-boiled eggs in it and each time when I cook it, I will add more eggs for them. ^^

Ingredients:


1 kg pork belly with skin (cut into pieces)
2  whole garlic with skin
11/2 liter water


Seasoning:

2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp "Shaoxing" cooking wine
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp  salt

12 hard-boiled eggs


Method:
  • Marinade the pork belly pieces with the seasoning for at least 30mins.
  • Add in the marinade pork belly pieces in a pot, covered the lid and cook for 3 minutes, add  in garlic and stir well then cover the lid cook until the color of the pork changes.  Add in water and hard boiled eggs, bring it to boil.
  • Cover up, lower the heat and simmer for 1 hour until the gravy is thicken.  
  • Season it with some salt to taste.  Dish up, serve hot.
Enjoy cooking!!

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