DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Moo Palo
Also known as: หมูพะโล้
Yurico Aoki’s selected moo palo for Kikkoman stews pork belly and prepared boiled eggs in soy sauce and palm sugar, scented with cinnamon, star anise and five-spice powder. Coriander-root paste flavours the cooking liquid.
About Moo Palo
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Yurico Aoki’s selected moo palo for Kikkoman combines pork belly and boiled eggs in a soy-and-palm-sugar stew. Cinnamon, star anise and a prepared five-spice powder scent this manufacturer’s version of the Thai dish.
Coriander roots, garlic and white pepper are pounded into a paste. The paste sautés in cooking oil until fragrant before soy sauce and palm sugar are mixed in.
Pork-belly pieces turn through the seasoned liquid as their surfaces brown. Water then enters, and the mixture comes to a boil with surface scum removed.
Cinnamon sticks, star anise, five-spice powder and the already boiled eggs join the simmering stew. The source allows extra soy sauce and palm sugar after tasting, keeping that adjustment separate from the initial measured amounts.
The eggs are removed and halved lengthwise for serving. Pork and stewing liquid share the bowls, with coriander leaves as an optional final garnish.
Ingredients in Moo Palo
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- Eggprotein
- Soy Sauceseasoning
- Sugarsweetener
- Garlicseasoning
- Chinese Five-Spice Powderseasoning
- Waterother
- Porkprotein
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Origins & food traditions
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- Thailand
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- Thai-style
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