Thai
Moo Ping (Grilled Pork Skewers)
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Moo Ping (Grilled Pork Skewers) is Thai home cooking, eaten at breakfast, 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 garlic, cilantro root and white pepper into a paste, then mix it with the palm sugar, fish sauce, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, oil and half the coconut milk.
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Massage the marinade into the pork and leave it for at least 45 minutes, or covered in the fridge overnight, which is how it works on a school morning.
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Soak bamboo skewers in water, then thread the pork on in bunched, overlapping folds so each skewer is thick and juicy.
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Grill over medium charcoal or in a grill pan, turning often and basting with the remaining coconut milk, until charred at the edges and cooked through, 10 to 12 minutes.
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Serve hot with sticky rice. On most weekday mornings the family buys moo ping from the cart; the home batch is for a weekend or a lunch box.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Moo Ping (Grilled Pork Skewers), 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
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. Moo Ping (Grilled Pork Skewers) carries gluten, shellfish, soy, fish, and coconut. It is free of the remaining 5 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Gaeng Som Pla (Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables) |
| Shellfish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Gaeng Som Pla (Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables) |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
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
- 450 kcal
- Protein
- 29 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 31 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 7 g
- Sodium
- 950 mg
- Saturated fat
- 13 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Moo Ping (Grilled Pork Skewers) takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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