Vietnamese
Bun Cha
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Mix the pork with the minced lemongrass, shallots, garlic, 2 tbsp fish sauce, and 1 tbsp sugar and form small flat patties.
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Whisk the remaining fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, and 3/4 cup warm water into a dipping sauce and stir in the shredded carrot.
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Soak the rice vermicelli in hot water until tender, then drain and cool.
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Grill or pan-sear the pork patties over high heat until charred and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side.
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Divide the noodles, grilled pork, sliced cucumber, herbs, and lettuce among bowls.
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Serve with the dipping sauce to spoon over everything.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bun Cha, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bun Cha carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 500 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 52 g
- Fat
- 22 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 7 g
- Sodium
- 820 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bun Cha takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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