Cơm Tấm Sườn

Broken rice with grilled pork chop and egg.

Ingredients

• 3 cups Broken rice
• 4 Pork chops
• 3 stalks Lemongrass
• 6 cloves Garlic
• ¼ cup Fish sauce
• 3 tbsp Sugar
• 2 tbsp Honey
• 4 Eggs
• 4 Spring onions
• ¼ cup Oil
• 1 Cucumber
• 2 Tomatoes

Method

1. Flatten the chops — Pound them thin so they cook fast over high heat.
2. Marinate — Blend lemongrass, garlic, fish sauce, sugar and honey and coat the pork; rest 4 hours.
3. Cook the rice — Steam the broken rice — its smaller grains give a distinctly softer, stickier texture than whole rice.
4. Make scallion oil — Pour hot oil over chopped spring onion.
5. Grill — Cook the chops over charcoal 4 minutes a side, basting, until caramelised at the edges.
6. Fry the eggs — Cook with crisp lacy edges.
7. Cơm Tấm is ready — Plate rice, pork and egg with scallion oil, cucumber, tomato and fish sauce dip.

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