Vietnamese
Com Tam Suon Nuong (Grilled Pork Chop with Rice)
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Com Tam Suon Nuong (Grilled Pork Chop with Rice) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pound the pork chops gently with the back of a knife or a meat mallet to tenderize and slightly flatten them.
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Blend or mince the garlic and shallots into a paste.
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Whisk the paste with the fish sauce, sugar, honey, black pepper, lime juice, and 1 tbsp oil into a marinade.
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Coat the pork chops thoroughly and marinate at least 30 minutes, or up to overnight in the fridge.
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Heat a grill, grill pan, or broiler to high and brush with the remaining oil.
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Cook the pork chops until deeply charred at the edges and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side, basting once with any extra marinade.
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Let the chops rest 3 minutes, then slice if desired.
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Serve over the jasmine rice with sliced cucumber alongside.
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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 Com Tam Suon Nuong (Grilled Pork Chop with Rice), 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. Com Tam Suon Nuong (Grilled Pork Chop with Rice) 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
- 740 kcal
- Protein
- 46 g
- Carbs
- 71 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 13 g
- Sodium
- 980 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Com Tam Suon Nuong (Grilled Pork Chop with Rice) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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