Coffee Flavoured Spare Ribs

This dish is both sweet and slightly bitter (because of use of the coffee granules). Choose the spare ribs carefully, select those that are fleshy (also known as the soft bone) and you will get a very meaty and rich and aromatic dish.

Ingredients

1.	Spare ribs	1 kg, cut into pieces
2.	Oyster sauce	1 tablespoon
3.	Sugar	1 teaspoon
4.	Salt	1 teaspoon
5.	Sesame oil	1 teaspoon
6.	Egg	1
7.	Plain Flour	2 tablespoon
8.	Custard powder	1 tablespoon
9.	Bicarbonate of soda	1 teaspoon
10.	Water	200 ml
11.	Corn flour	200 gram
12.	Maltose	2 tablespoon
13.	Sugar	2 tablespoon
14.	Worchestershire sauce	1 tablespoon
15.	Instant coffee granules	1 teaspoon
16.	Water	100 ml

Method

1. Combine ingredients 2 to 11, add ribs and marinate for 3 hours.

2. Heat oil in wok until very hot and deep fry ribs until golden brown. Drain.

3. Mix ingredients 12 to 16 and stir in clean wok for 2 minutes until thicken.

4. Put in fried ribs, mix quickly and serve.

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