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Cơm Tấm (Broken Rice)

Vietnam

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Cơm Tấm (Broken Rice) — step 1 of 9

Whisk the fish sauce, sugar, oil, garlic, shallots, lemongrass, honey, dark soy and pepper together.

Ingredients

4 servings

The pork chops

4 bone-in pork chops, about 1/2 in (1 cm) thick, 6 oz (170 g) each
3 tbsp (45 ml) fish sauce
2 tbsp (25 g) granulated sugar
2 tbsp (30 ml) neutral oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 shallots, minced
1 stalk lemongrass, tender core only, very finely minced
1 tbsp (15 ml) honey
1 tsp (5 ml) dark soy sauce, for colour
1/2 tsp (1 g) freshly ground black pepper

The rice

2 cups (about 380 g) broken rice (cơm tấm), rinsed until the water runs nearly clear
2.5 cups (600 ml) water

Scallion oil (mỡ hành)

4 scallions, thinly sliced
3 tbsp (45 ml) neutral oil
Pinch of salt

To serve

1 cup (about 150 g) đồ chua (see recipe #17)
1/2 English cucumber, sliced
1 medium tomato, sliced
1 quantity nước chấm (recipe #26)

Development draft. This is an untested development recipe from the cookbook project. It has not been kitchen-tested, and the quantities and timings are the author's working draft rather than a verified result.

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