Vietnamese
Vietnamese Caramel Pork
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Melt the sugar with 2 tbsp water in a heavy pot over medium heat until it turns a deep amber caramel, about 6 minutes.
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Add the oil, shallots, and garlic and stir for 1 minute, standing back as it sputters.
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Add the cubed pork and toss to coat in the caramel, searing for 5 minutes.
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Pour in the coconut water and fish sauce, add the black pepper, and bring to a simmer.
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Cover partly and braise until the pork is tender and the sauce is syrupy, about 40 minutes.
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Add the peeled hard-boiled eggs for the last 10 minutes to glaze, then serve over the jasmine rice.
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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 Vietnamese Caramel Pork, 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. Vietnamese Caramel Pork carries eggs, fish, and coconut. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
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
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 34 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 33 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 12 g
- Sodium
- 980 mg
- Saturated fat
- 11 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Vietnamese Caramel Pork takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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