Garlicky Pork Ribs Soup with Tamarind and Greens

Name: Garlicky Pork Ribs Soup with Tamarind and Greens
Ingredients: 1 pound (455 g) sturdy greens, such as yu choy or Chinese broccoli, cut into 2-inch (5-cm) lengths; About 5 tablespoons (75 ml) vegetable oil; 1 tablespoon tamarind concentrate, such as Tamicon brand; 1 tablespoon miso paste; 1 tablespoon fish sauce, or more to taste; 2 to 3 pounds (910 g to 1.4 kg) meaty pork ribs, or 2 pounds (910 g) country-style ribs; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 large shallots, one chopped and one thinly sliced; 8 dried red chiles, preferably Thai, stemmed, four of them broken into pieces; 8 cloves garlic

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Slow Cook Modern

By Liana Krissoff

Published 2017

About

This is a loose adaptation of the jaw phak kat in Andy Ricker’s phenomenal book of (mostly northern) Thai recipes, Pok Pok. As soon as his long-awaited book arrived in the mail a couple of years ago, I flipped through it and then ran around to every Asian grocery store in Lincoln, Nebraska, where we lived at the time, hunting down ingredients. The sour, salty, murky (read: flavorful!) soup was the first d