Vietnamese Grilled Pork Skewers recipe

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Ingredients

1 pound pork belly, cubed
1 fresh red chile pepper, minced
3 stalks lemongrass, minced
3 tablespoons fish sauce
3 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG)
1 teaspoon white sugar
1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
bamboo skewers
¼ cup fish sauce
¼ cup white sugar
1 fresh red chile pepper, minced, or more to taste
1 lime, juiced
5 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG), or to taste
1 cup water

Nutrition Info

201 calories
carbohydrate: 15.3 g
cholesterol: 27.3 mg
fat: 10.6 g
fiber: 0.3 g
protein: 10.8 g
saturatedFat: 3.4 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 2019.6 mg
sugar: 9.9 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Combine pork belly, 1 red chile pepper, lemongrass, 3 tablespoons fish sauce, 3 cloves garlic, 1 teaspoon MSG, 1 teaspoon white sugar, and five-spice powder in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until marinated, 1 to 3 hours.

  2. Mix 1/4 cup fish sauce, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 red chile pepper, lime juice, 5 cloves garlic, and 1 teaspoon MSG together in a bowl. Let sit until dipping sauce flavors meld, 30 minutes to 1 hour. Pour in water.

  3. Thread the marinated pork belly onto bamboo skewers.

  4. Preheat grill for high heat and lightly oil the grate. Cook pork skewers, turning occasionally, until crisp, 8 to 10 minutes. Serve with the dipping sauce.

Recipe Yield

6 servings

Recipe Note

For this dish, we need to prepare two things (1) the grilled pork, and (2) the dipping sauce.

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