Monday 30 June 2008

RECIPE: CARAMELISED PORK


The G household love eating Vietnamese food, and our favourite restaurant is this tiny place in O’Connor, ACT called TuDo Vietnamese Restaurant. My son’s favourite dish is their Ginger Squid (I’ll post my version soon). I can honestly say that TuDo is Canberra’s best Vietnamese restaurant. They make a really mean Vietnamese caramelised pork…..and if I may say so, I think mine ain’t that bad either. This is how I made it. You may substitute the pork with beef.

Ingredients
1 kg pork – sliced thinly (I used leg pork)
2 large onions – sliced about ½ cm thick
50 g caster sugar*
50 g brown sugar*
175 ml water*
40 ml Nuoc Cham sauce (see recipe HERE)
20 ml lime juice
½ tsp salt
2 red chillies – de-seeded and sliced finely
½ tsp chinese five spice powder
3 cloves garlic – minced
Oil for frying
2 spring onion – sliced finely at an angle
Crushed peanuts – optional

Method
Heat oil in work and fry the pork in batches until brown. Repeat process and set aside. Turn off the heat and set the wok aside (no need to wash, we will be using it again).

In a saucepan, make the caramel sauce by boiling together *, stirring together constantly with a whisk, until the liquid turns golden. On low heat, carefully add the Nuoc Cham sauce and the lime juice. Stir to mix.

Heat the wok again and fry the garlic and onions until the onions are transparent. Add in the pork and mix well.

Add in the chilli, 5 spice powder, salt and the caramel sauce. Mix well and cook for 1 min. Transfer to dish and garnish with spring onion and peanuts. Serve with rice, vegetables and NUOC CHAM sauce.

4 comments:

Tina Butler said...

That pork looks awesome. I love food from differnt cultures. I got that from growing up in Hawaii. I love your blog and your photots.

Teresa Cordero Cordell said...

VG,
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ShellyH said...

looks delicous! Welcome to the foodie blog roll!

VG said...

Hi Tina

Tks for visiting my blog. Growing up in Malaysia does that to one's taste buds...it gets so used to variety and thrives on it! I hope one day I am able to visit your island (nearly did in 2004). Do drop by again.

Teresa
Thank you for the link. There are few recipes that I am definately going to try soon....on a weekend though! You wouldn't happen to have a good recipe on buffalo wings or seafood chowder, would you? By the way, the strawberry margaritas could be a goer too. Watch this space!

Hi Shelley

Thank you. Privileged to be included.

Cheers
VG