Braised Pork with Eggs Recipe (Thịt Kho Nước Dừa)

Braised Pork with Eggs Recipe (Thịt Kho Nước Dừa)

It’s almost time for our Lunar New Year. So, we’re making one of the traditional dish Vietnamese Braised Pork with Eggs (Thịt Kho Nước Dừa or Thịt Kho Tàu). It’s also called Pork and Egg Stew or Caramelized Pork and Eggs (Thit Kho Trung). We usually make this dish for the New Year as it can be kept for a few days. It’s a tradition that we should not do any cooking for three New Year days 🙂 (good luck with that nowadays). We also make this recipe for our young son as it’s very easy for to him to eat since the meat is really tender. The main ingredients are pork and boiled eggs. We usually use pork with little or no fat when cooking for our kids, but traditionally, people would use pork belly or pork shoulder. The two then are stewed with coconut juice until tender (really tender).

This dish is usually served with steamed rice and cooked vegetable or pickled vegetable.

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Braised Pork with Eggs (Thịt Kho Nước Dừa)

Recipe for traditional Lunar New Year dish Braised Pork with Eggs (Thịt Kho Nước Dừa, Thịt Kho Tàu) with coconut juice. Have it with steamed rice, steamed/pickled vegetables.

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 1 hr

Total Time 1 hr 35 mins

Servings 8 servings

Ingredients

  

• 1 lb pork shoulder (or any type of pork)
• 6 eggs (hard-boiled)
• 7 cup coconut juice
• 2 tsp sugar

For the "Marinated ingredients

• 3 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground pepper
• 4 tsp fish sauce
• 1 tsp seasoning (mushroom seasoning - optional)
• 2 tsp minced garlic

Instructions

 

• In a pork bowl, combine well with all the "Marinated ingredient." Cover and marinate for 30 minutes.
  
• Add sugar into a large pot. Cook until golden brown. (If the caramel sauce is burn, discard and remake it.)
  
• Place in the marinated pork. Stir fry for 3 minutes. Pour in coconut juice. Place in the hard boiled eggs.
  
  
  
  
• Skim off the foam occasionally.
  
• Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours on medium low heat. Remove the lid and increase the heat to high. Cook for 10 minutes more.
  
• Transfer to a bowl and served with steamed rice and steamed vegetables or with pickled mustard green.
  
  
  
• Enjoy!
  

Notes

Total cost: $5.23 ($0.65/serving)
Pork: $1.49
Eggs: $0.74
Coconut juice: $3.00