Vietnamese caramel pork bowls
Perfect for weeknights dinner, this Vietnamese caramel pork recipe is great. It is super easy and quick to make, budget friendly and tastes amazing! Serve with cut tomatoes & cucumber like the street food cooks do. Fun!
Ingredients
- 500 g pork mince
- 2 tbsp Olivado extra virgin peanut oil
- 1 onion finely diced
- 1 tbsp ginger grated
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 small red chilli deseeded and finely chopped
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
To serve
- 4 portions steamed Jasmine rice
- 4 tomatoes sliced
- ½ cucumber sliced
- 2 spring onions sliced
- 1 red chilli sliced
- ¼ cup FreshLife natural peanuts lightly toasted and crushed
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat. Fry the onion, ginger, garlic and chili for 2 minutes.
- Add the pork mince and fry, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon until all the meat changes colour.
- Sprinkle the sugar and fish sauce over the pork. Stir a few times, then leave to cook until most of the juices evaporate and the mince starts to caramelise. Stir and leave to cook again. Repeat the process for a few minutes until the pork is caramelised all over.
- Serve on steamed jasmine rice topped with tomato, cucumber, spring onions, chilli and peanuts.
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