Braised Chinese Five Spice Pork Ribs 五香酱油卤排骨

This is one of those comforting, home-style dishes I cook quite often. It's simple, hearty, and always satisfying with a bowl of warm rice. Tender, flavourful pork ribs infused with the warm aroma of five spice, and eggs that are deeply braised and packed with umami. 

This time, I switched things up by using the braise function on my new rice cooker. What I like about this rice cooker is that it allows you to adjust both the cooking temperature and time, making it really convenient for dishes like this.

Ingredients:

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1 slab Baby Back Ribs/ Pork Ribs 

4pcs Shiitake Mushrooms (soaked to rehydrate, reserve the water)

4 Hard-boiled Eggs 

Thumb-size Ginger (sliced)

5 cloves Garlic

6 Shallots 

1 Star Anise

1 slice Licorice Root

1 Red Chilli

1 stalk Spring Onion

Hot Water + the reserved mushroom water (1 cup level)

30g Rock Sugar

30g Light Soy Sauce

Some oil for cooking 

Marinade:

1 tbsp Tapioca Flour

30g Premium Dark Soy Sauce 

20g Rice Wine 

1/4 tsp White Pepper 

1/4 tsp Five Spice Powder

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Method:

1. Wash and dry the pork ribs with kitchen towels. Combine the marinade ingredients and pork ribs, keep in the fridge and marinate for 2 hours or overnight.

2. Heat some oil in the pot, fry garlic, shallots and ginger till fragrant, stir-fry the pork ribs and mushrooms (reserve the marinades).  

Stir-fry using the steam mode, just to bring out the fragrance and lightly brown everything. Switch to the braise function, select cooking time and temperature.

I'm using Song Cho 1.5L IH Multi-Function Cooker (SC-IH15G), with low sugar pot
You can check out the details on their E-SHOP  

3. Add in the rest of the ingredients (except eggs) and the reserved marinades. Braise for 1 hour, temp 110 °C. Add eggs, and braise another 20 minutes. Serve warm with steamed rice, porridge or noodles. 若喜欢我的食谱，可以LIKE和追随我的面书专页，不要错过最新食谱发布。If you like my recipe, click here, LIKE & follow Miki's Food Archives Facebook page or follow us on Instagram: mfa_dingoozatfood  to receive more recipe updates. Don't forget to favourite my pages if you wish to see my post on your news feed.