🇻🇳 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

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







