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You are here: Home / All Recipes / Braised Pork in Soy Sauce (Tau Yew Bak)

Braised Pork in Soy Sauce

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
You'd think that, with a name like that, there's nothing but pork and soy sauce in this dish. But, no. Add garlic, ginger, cinnamon, star anise and five-spice powder light and dark soy sauces for the most richly flavored braised pork in soy sauce.
Exercise patience because the meat requires long and slow cooking. The wonderful aroma that will float around the kitchen might whet your appetite so much and tempt you to lift the pork from the sauce before it’s ready but you have to resist the temptation because the meat requires time to soak up the complex flavors of the soy sauce.
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 1 hr 30 mins
Total Time 1 hr 40 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 6 people
Braised pork in soy sauce served in clay pot
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Ingredients
  

  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil
  • 1 kilogram pork belly uncut
  • ¼ cup dark soy sauce
  • ¼ cup light soy sauce
  • ¼ cup rice wine
  • 6 cloves garlic pounded
  • 1 two-inch knob ginger
  • 1 one-inch piece cinnamon stick
  • 2 star anise
  • 1 teaspoon five-spice powder
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon peppercorns
  • 2 cups bone broth you may need more
  • 6 hard boiled eggs shelled
  • roughly chopped cilantro to garnish

Instructions
 

  • Heat the cooking oil in a wok.
  • Lower the pork in the hot oil and brown all sides.
  • Pour in the dark soy sauce, light soy sauce and rice wine. Add the garlic, ginger, cinnamon stick, star anise, five-spice powder, peppercorns and about a cup of broth.
  • Bring to the boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer for an hour to an hour and a half or until the pork is tender. Check the liquid halfway through and add more broth, a quarter cup at a time, if needed.
  • Scoop out the pork and transfer to a cutting board. Cut into two-inch cubes.
  • Strain the sauce and reheat. Taste and add more light soy sauce or sugar, or both, if needed.
  • Add the pork cubes to the sauce. If you want eggs with your pork, now is the time to add them.
  • Cook the pork (and eggs) in the sauce until the sauce reduces to no more than a couple of tablespoonfuls.
  • Transfer the meat and sauce (and eggs) to a serving bowl. Sprinkle with cilantro (or scallions) and serve hot.

Notes

Updated from a recipe originally published in 7/31/2014
Keyword Pork, Pork Belly
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