Cooking Easy Recipes

Vietnamese Pork "Spaghetti Sauce" over Rice

Servings:
6 Servings
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  • 1 tb Vegetable Oil
  • 1 1/2 lb Ground Pork
  • 1 1/2 tb Sugar
  • 4 1/2 tb Vietnamese Style Fish Sauce
  • 1 1/2 tb Lime Juice
  • 2 Serrano Chiles; seeded and
  • -chopped
  • 1/4 c Garlic; chopped
  • 1 1/2 c Shallots; chopped
  • 1/2 ts Black Pepper
  • 5 lg Tomatoes; seeded and chopped
  • 1/4 c Tomato Paste
  • 1 1/2 c Chicken Stock
  • Coriander Leaves
  • Hot Steamed Rice
Pour oil into a saucepan and place over high heat. Add pork and saute until
lightly browned, about 5 minutes, breaking up lumps. Add sugar,
1 1/2 tb fish sauce, the lime juice and chiles. Cook 1 minute. Set aside
in a bowl.

Put garlic, shallots, pepper and more oil if needed into the saucepan; fry
over medium heat until fragrant. Add tomato and cook until reduced to a
slightly lumpy sauce, about 5 minutes. Add pork, tomato paste, remaining
fish sauce and chicken stock; simmer 10 minutes. Garnish with coriander.
Serve over hot steamed rice.

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