Recipe: Perfect Babi Hong

Babi Hong. This dish, Hong Bak/Babi Hong/Braised Pork in Fragrant Spice Sauce, is a Penang Peranakan dish. The essential ingredients for this dish are the cekur root (sar keong/kencur/lesser galangal) and coriander powder. If you can't get hold of fresh cekur root, substitute with the powder form which you can Babi Hong in Jakarta - View Menus, Photos, Reviews and Information for restaurants serving Babi Hong in Jakarta on Zomato Zomato is the best way to discover great places to eat in your city.

My mother's babi hong is good, but the best is my aunt-grandmother's(errhh… what's the correct correct term for the sister of my grandmother?). Hong Bak is in hokkien dialect and the nyonya tradition called it Babi Hong. This recipe I adapted from Lily Ng and it's very delicious to served with white rice or plain pow. You can cook Babi Hong using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Babi Hong

1. It's 400 g of pork belly (strips).
2. Prepare 2 tbsp of dark soy sauce.
3. You need 2 tbsp of oyster sauce.
4. You need 2 tbsp of shaoxing wine.
5. Prepare 3 tbsp of sugar.
6. It's of Salt and pepper.
7. You need of Sayur asin item (soaked).
8. Prepare 4 cloves of garlic (chopped).
9. Prepare 2 of star anise seed.
10. You need to taste of Ginger.
11. Prepare 1 of Green onion.
12. Prepare as needed of Cornstarch.

It is a Chinese Indonesian classic, due to its simplicity and popularity among Chinese Indonesian households. It is also popular among non-Muslim Indonesians, such as the Balinese, Batak and Minahasan, and in the Netherlands, where it is known as babi ketjap, owing to colonial ties with Indonesia. Dutch babi pangang In the West, chiefly in The Netherlands, babi panggang is a pork dish served with a tomato -based sauce. This Dutch / Indonesian / Chinese fusion dish is also known as babi panggang speciaal in the Netherlands, and the sauce as speciaal saus (lit.: "special sauce").

Babi Hong instructions

1. Pan fry the pork till cooked.
2. Cut the pork strips to 4 cm long and marinate with dark soy, oyster sauce and sugar, set aside for a while.
3. Stir fry the vegetables with garlic and the excess marinade liquid then add the star anise.
4. Place the pork belly in the bowl and put the vegetables and sliced green onion and ginger on top then steam for 1 hour.
5. After it's done take the star anise, ginger, and green onion away.
6. Put the steamed pork on a plate and take the juice to a pan and thicken it with cornstarch.
7. Pour the thickened sauce on top of the pork and enjoy with rice.

Dari semua makanan yang dipesen gaada yang ga enak, semuanya enak. NYONYA HONG BAK One of the Nyonya recipes from Pearly Kee's book that I tried is this 'Hong Bak' dish. It turns out perfect in taste, texture and flavor. The sand ginger flavor is not too strong but the aroma is still noticeable. Babi pongteh is customarily a homecooked meal.