Vietnamese
Thit Luoc (Boiled Pork Belly)
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Thit Luoc (Boiled Pork Belly) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside. 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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Put the pork belly in a pot with the ginger, sliced, and enough water to cover.
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Bring to a boil, skimming off any foam, then add the salt and reduce to a gentle simmer.
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Simmer, mostly hands-off, until the pork is cooked through and tender, about 25 minutes.
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Lift the pork out and let it cool for a few minutes.
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Slice thinly against the grain.
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Serve at room temperature or just warm, with rice served alongside and a dipping saucer for each eater; the dipping sauce is the whole point of this dish.
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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 Thit Luoc (Boiled Pork Belly), 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. Thit Luoc (Boiled Pork Belly) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| 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
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 15 g
- Carbs
- 0 g
- Fat
- 54 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 19 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Thit Luoc (Boiled Pork Belly) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. 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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