Tag: pork

Heo quay (pork belly)

Ingredients

For a 2 lbs pork butt, 1 tsp five spices, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 t brown sugar (white), 1 Tsp soy sauce, 1 Tbs honey, and garlic (to taste). I know we all like garlic but trust me you don’t want a lot here.

Instructions

Mix ingredients in a bowl. Wash & dry meat thoroughly. On a plate, marinade meat overnight in the refrigerator. If you want to color skin, use red food coloring (optional). Salt/Vinegar mix and brush on skin to make it crispier.

Tip 2: on a sauce pan, add enough water to cover skin, boil until soft (around 3-5 mins) to soften the skin.

35 mins in the air fryer at between 325 and 350, unattended.

The trick is you have to stab the skin with a lot of holes. Some people go as far as mixing flour with water and brush it on top, thats just too involved for me. and the meat has to be super dry when it goes into the oven. also, like tram said, prepare for splashes. and oh, you need to collect a lot of fat and juice on the bottom ha. made a mess first time around, and second time was clean as a whistle.

Last, put on broil to make the skin extra skin

thịt giò bó

This dish is similar to thịt xá xíu.

Ingredients:

  • a good piece of pork belly,
  • 3-4 gloves of garlic,
  • salt ,sugar or honey ,
  • some bột xá xíu .

Directions:

  • Mix all together in a bowl.
  • First you may slit the top part of the meat then rub in the finely minced garli.  Let this sit and marinade for about an hour or longer.
  • prepare a steam cooker,
  • use the twine to tie the meat with spacing about 1 inch apart
  • use aluminum foil wrap it tight
  • steam it about 30-40 minutes.

Notes: check and add more water in the pot enough until it is done.

Thịt Kho Trứng

INGREDIENTS

  • hard boiled eggs
  • pork (2 lbs), with meat, fat and skin, cut into chunks 2×2 or 3×3
  • coco rico coconut juice (or carbonated drink)
  • onion (halves or quartered)
  • rock sugar (1 chunk, less if using sweetened carbonated drink)

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. place boiled eggs in bottom of pot
  2. add chunks of meat on top
  3. pour coconut juice (or carbonated drink) to cover
  4. add onions
  5. add rock sugar
  6. boil on high, skim foam
  7. reduce heat, cover halfway
  8. simmer 2-3 hrs or overnight
  9. watch pot and add juice if it reduces.  water should always covered meat
  10. when done, season to taste with sugar, salt and fish sauce

 

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Thịt Bằm

Simmered ground pork.

INGREDIENTS

  • If possible, ask for some fat in the ground pork; otherwise you can add bacon as an ingredient.  If you want it lean, that’s fine too.
  • Dice some white or yellow onions (to about a quarter of the size of your pinky fingernail.)  Remember the function of onion is to sweeten the dish.The sweetness lingers unlike with sugar; sugar brings the sweetness to the forefront.
  • Marinate the ground pork lightly with salt, pepper, and diced onions.  You’re ready to go right away.
  • If you use bacon, slice it to the size of your thumb nail.
  • Mix a teaspoon of sugar with a teaspoon of soy sauce (for about a quarter pound of ground meat) in a small bowl.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Put a pot on the stove on high heat, toss in the bacon (if you only have lean ground pork). 
  2. Otherwise, use some vegetable or corn oil.  Toss in the marinated ground pork.Brown the meat, stirring it frequently to separately it into small chunks (it’s up to you how small the chunk.)
  3. Turn the heat to medium low and add the sugar/soy sauce mixture, a little at a time.
  4. Start simmering the pot. A total of 15 minutes of cooking is enough if you want a quick meal. You can add water if you want more sauce (and more soy sauce/sugar too, to taste.)
  5. Or you can simmer the pot until the onion disintegrates; it’s totally up to you.
  6. Use it for your salad or eat with cooked rice.The sauce is for the rice.  It goes exceptionally well with fresh cucumber.
  7. You can cook once and live with rice and thịt bằm for a whole week.  Just put the leftover in a plastic container and save it in the refrigerator.  When you’re hungry, just take it out, mix it with cooked rice, put it in the microwave for a minute or so.  Add a little fish sauce and few slices of fresh cucumber.  One of the quickest meal ever, and yet very tasty.
  8. Note: I didn’t add fish sauce while cooking so as to avoid the smell; but if you’re going to finish it all in one serving, add the fish sauce toward the end of simmering.

 

Bà Ngoại’s Thịt Kho

INGREDIENTS

  • pork (boston butt), pork belly (2-3 lbs)
  • caramel
  • sugar (2 t)
  • salt (1 t), pepper
  • coconut juice
  • 1 medium white/yellow onion (chopped)

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. In a small pot with chopped onion at the bottom, place the meat (Boston Butt) next
  2. Add 1 teaspoon of caramel on top , about 1/2 teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of sugar.
  3. Let it set for 30 minutes or longer as you wished (2-3hrs).
  4. When you start cooking , turn on high heat the pot covered with the a lid , keep your eyes on it  (about 5-10mins)
  5. When it is boiling around the side of the pot , you can move the meat around to avoid sticking at the bottom and burnt.  Stir the meat to get the color of its liquid , the juice should be foaming and sizzing
  6. Lower heat to medium high, cover pot
  7. When you hear sizzling sounds as the pot dries out, add about 2 tablespoons of water or coconut juice if available .
  8. Repeat this two or three times until the meat is tender .
  9. Before the last water or coconut juice you may add one tablespoon of fish sauce, stir it to combine then add water just to cover the meat , or more if you like more liquid and let it boils for one more minute then turn it off .
  10. Now you can add ground black pepper last .