🇻🇳 Vietnam recipe

Com Tam (Broken Rice)

Saigon's most beloved street food, com tam is a hearty plate of fractured short-grain rice topped with a juicy grilled lemongrass-marinated pork chop, a wedge of steamed egg and pork meatloaf, shredded pork skin, a fried egg, and drizzled generously with sweet fish sauce.

Prep30 mins
Cook30 mins
Serves4
Difficultymedium
Com Tam (Broken Rice), a Vietnam dish

Ingredients

  • 400 g broken rice (com tam)
  • 4 bone-in pork chops (about 150 g each)
  • 3 stalks lemongrass, white part only, finely minced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 shallots, minced
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 80 ml fish sauce (for nuoc mam pha)
  • 60 ml warm water
  • 60 g sugar (for nuoc mam pha)
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 clove garlic, finely minced (for sauce)
  • 1 red chili, finely chopped
  • 100 g pickled daikon and carrot
  • 4 slices cucumber
  • 4 slices tomato
  • 3 spring onions, thinly sliced (for scallion oil)
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil (for scallion oil)

Method

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Nutrition per serving

Calories
620
Protein
35 g
Carbs
72 g
Fat
20 g

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