Recipe: Delicious Vietnamese Pork Wraps

Vietnamese Pork Wraps. In a small bowl, mix vinegar, sugar and salt until blended. A quick, easy and delicious light meal, these Vietnamese Pork Lettuce Wraps start with marinated then BBQ or broiled pork tenderloin, sliced and served on lettuce with a spicy Vietnamese carrot sauce. This is one of my favourite quick, easy and delicious light summer meals!

The rolls are best eaten straight from the steamer, so drain quickly on kitchen paper. Divide the rolls between four plates and give each person a small bowl of dipping sauce. These Vietnamese-Style Pork Lettuce Wraps bring together what I love about Vietnamese cooking, done for the home kitchen. You can have Vietnamese Pork Wraps using 28 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vietnamese Pork Wraps

1. You need of Marinade.
2. You need 2 tbsp of sugar.
3. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves.
4. Prepare Pinch of black pepper.
5. You need 1 of shallot.
6. Prepare 1 of in fresh lemongrass.
7. It's 4 of in piece fresh ginger.
8. You need 1 tbsp of soy sauce.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of fish sauce.
10. Prepare 400 g of pork fillet, sliced.
11. You need 1 tbsp of oil.
12. Prepare of Dipping sauce.
13. Prepare 1 tbsp of sugar.
14. Prepare 1/2 of carrot, grated.
15. You need 1/4 cup of rice vinegar.
16. Prepare Squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
17. You need 1 tsp of garlic, minced or grated.
18. Prepare 1 of red chilli, finely sliced.
19. Prepare 1 tbsp of fish sauce.
20. It's 2 oz of rice vermicelli.
21. You need of Accompanying salad for topping.
22. It's Handful of fresh coriander.
23. You need of Cucumber, sliced.
24. It's Handful of fresh Basil.
25. Prepare Handful of fresh mint.
26. It's 2 of chillies, thinly sliced.
27. You need of Dry roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped (optional).
28. It's leaves of Lettuce.

You start by making a gingery marinade for the pork that doubles as a dressing for the salad. The tenderloin, a particularly lean cut, cooks up quickly and very tender. Chicken or flank steak would work equally well here. For the pickled carrots: In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, vinegar, and salt until dissolved.

Vietnamese Pork Wraps instructions

1. Mix the ingredients for the marinade (8 items) and pulse in a food processor until coarsely ground. Slice the pork and put both the meat and marinade into a sealed bag in the fridge for 1 hour..
2. Combine the dipping sauce ingredients (7 items) and stir until the sugar dissolves..
3. Cook the noodles for a few minutes and drain well. (Follow pack instructions)..
4. Thread pork onto skewers, evenly placed and griddle or fry in a little oil until cooked and lightly charred..
5. Top each lettuce leaf with the pork, noodles, cucumber, herbs and dipping sauce and a sprinkling of peanuts. Roll up as best you can and enjoy..
6. I added a veg stir fry to accompany the wraps by slicing thinly and stir-frying the leftover veg in the fridge with a splash of soy sauce, Mirin and oyster sauce for a few minutes until cooked but still crunchy. This went perfectly with the wraps. I put everything in bowls and let everyone help themselves. My kids thought this dish was delicious and introduced them to Vietnamese cuisine..

I love Vietnamese spring rolls or cha gio in Vietnamese, which roughly means "minced pork rolls.". The filling is made of ground pork, shrimp, crab meat, shredded carrots and mung bean noodles (cellophane noodles or glass noodles). Sticky-sweet caramelized pork is complemented by crisp lettuce, carrots, scallions, and cucumber and wrapped in rice paper with vermicelli. The creamy peanut sauce makes the perfect dip for these fresh caramelized pork summer rolls. If you've never made summer rolls, you need a little bit of patience, but it's not so bad once you get the hang of it.