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Cơm Tấm (Broken Rice)

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Cơm Tấm (Broken Rice)

Saigon-style broken rice with grilled pork chop, egg cake, shredded pork skin and fish sauce. Marinating the pork chops for a full two hours before grilling actually gets the fish sauce and garlic into the meat rather than just coating the surface.

Total time
155 min
Prep
135 min
Cook
20 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
Vietnamese
gluten-free

Ingredients

400gbroken rice, cooked
4thin pork chops
3 tbspfish sauce
2 tbspsugar
3 clovesgarlic
1 tbspsoy sauce
3eggs
1 tbspfish sauce for eggs
pickled carrot and daikonto serve
sliced tomato and cucumberto serve
spring onions in oilto serve

Instructions

1

Marinate pork in fish sauce, sugar, garlic and soy for 2 hours.

2

Grill pork chops on high heat 3–4 minutes per side.

3

Make egg steamed cake (chả trứng): beat eggs with 1 tbsp fish sauce, steam 15 minutes.

4

Serve rice with pork chop, sliced egg cake, pickles, tomato and cucumber.

5

Top with spring onion oil.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
87
Protein
5.7g
Fat
3.6g
Carbs
7.9g
Fiber
0.1g
Sodium
1127mg

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