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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Southeast Asian >> Vietnamese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Place eggs into the instant pot on a wire rack. Pour in 1 cup of water and set on high pressure for 5 minutes. Do a quick release and put the eggs in an ice bath. Peel and set aside. | 2. Combine the pork with garlic, shallot, salt, black pepper, msg, soy sauce in a large bowl. Let this marinate while you make the caramel sauce. You can also do this step ahead of time and just let it sit overnight in the fridge. | 3. Set the pot to Saute mode on high. Add in the marinated pork and saute for 5-7 minutes until the garlic and shallots are soft and the pork has some color. Deglaze with 1 cup of water making sure to scrape up all the bits. Turn off the pot. | 4. Time to make the caramel sauce! In a separate small frying pan, caramelize the sugar until it reaches a dark golden brown. Careful not to burn it. Watch it carefully! Slowly pour in ¼ cup of water and stir to make a sauce. Add to the instant pot. (You can also caramelize the sugar while your meat browns.). | 5. Add the hard boiled eggs, coconut soda, star anise pods and (if needed) just enough water to cover the pork. It should not take more than 2 cups. Cook it on high pressure for 30 minutes and NPR for 15 minutes.*. | 6. Add the fish sauce and salt to taste (if needed). Serve with rice and pickled vegetables! | 7. *OPTIONAL - Once you remove the lid, set it to Saute mode on high for 15 minutes to reduce the liquid by 1/3. You don’t have to worry too much with the instant pot overboiling or over reducing because it will maintain the heat level and switch to “keep warm” when the timer shuts off. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
pork belly	2	lb	cut	4699.295999999999	0.0	84.7325	480.9067
hard egg	6		boiled	-	-	-	-
sugar	1/3	cup		268.66	67.1987	0.0	0.0
garlic clove	4		chopped	-	-	-	-
shallot	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
star anise pod	3			-	-	-	-
black pepper	1	teaspoon		5.773	1.4708	0.239	0.075
salt	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
soy sauce	1	tablespoon		8.48	0.7888	1.3024	0.0912
msg	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
coconut	1	can	flavored	424.5877	18.2669	3.9939999999999998	40.1679
water	2 1/4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
fish sauce	1	teaspoon		2.1	0.2184	0.3036	0.0006

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.