
Vietnamese-style caramel pork
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Vietnamese-style caramel pork is a home-style meat dish. Ingredients and step-by-step instructions are below, with notes for home cooking.
Tutorial
Ingredients
- 1 ½ tbsp Ground Nut Oil
- 500g Pork Shoulder Steaks
- 2 chopped Shallots
- 1 tablespoon Ground Ginger
- 1 chopped Red Chilli
- 75g Brown Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Fish Sauce
- 2 tsp Chilli Sauce
- 4 Spring Onions
- Steamed Rice
- To serve Pak Choi
Steps
- step 1
- Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a wok over a high heat and stir-fry the pork in batches until browned all over. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- step 2
- Turn the heat right down and add the remaining oil, then stir in the shallots, ginger and chilli. Cook over a low heat for a couple of mins until just starting to soften. Add the sugar, fish sauce and 200ml water to the pan and stir everything together. Bring to the boil, stirring, so that the sugar dissolves, then return the pork to the pan. Bubble vigorously for 8-10 mins until the sauce thicken