Thai
Moo Tod Nam Pla (Fish Sauce Fried Pork)
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Moo Tod Nam Pla (Fish Sauce Fried Pork) 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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Cut the pork into finger-thick strips and toss with the fish sauce, sugar, smashed garlic and white pepper; leave for 20 minutes, or overnight in the fridge.
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Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan over medium heat and fry the pork in batches, turning, until deep golden and crisp at the edges, about 6 minutes per batch.
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Fry the garlic from the marinade for the last minute until golden and scatter it over the pork.
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Drain on paper and serve with sticky rice in the morning, or as the fried dish beside a curry and a soup at dinner.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Moo Tod Nam Pla (Fish Sauce Fried 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
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 Tod Nam Pla (Fish Sauce Fried Pork) 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 | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| 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
- 350 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 2 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 760 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Moo Tod Nam Pla (Fish Sauce Fried Pork) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. 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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