Cơm tấm (broken rice with grilled pork)
Saigon’s favourite breakfast: broken rice with lemongrass pork chops, a fried egg, spring onion oil and nước chấm.
- 60 min25 prep · 35 cook
- MediumDifficulty
- 750 kcalper serving
Ingredients
- Broken rice or jasmine rice400 g
- Thin pork chops4
- Lemongrass stalks, finely chopped2
- garlic4 cloves
- Shallots2
- Fish sauce5 tbsp
- Sugar4 tbsp
- Honey1 tbsp
- Vegetable oil5 tbsp
- Limes2
- Red chilli1
- Spring onions4
- Eggs4
- Cucumber, sliced1
- Tomatoes, sliced2
- Saltto taste
- Black pepperto taste
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Steps
- 1
Marinate the pork with the lemongrass, 2 garlic cloves, the shallots, 3 tbsp fish sauce, 2 tbsp sugar, the honey, pepper and 1 tbsp oil.
- 2
Rinse the rice and cook it with 480 ml water, covered, over a low heat.
- 3
For the nước chấm, mix the rest of the fish sauce and sugar with the lime juice, 6 tbsp warm water, the rest of the garlic and the chilli.
- 4
Pour 3 tbsp very hot oil over the sliced spring onions with a pinch of salt.
- 5
Grill the pork over a high heat until charred at the edges.
- 6
Fry the eggs in the remaining oil.
- 7
Serve the rice with a pork chop, an egg, cucumber and tomato, spoon over the spring onion oil and pour on the nước chấm.
Tips and questions
- Where do I find broken rice?
- In Asian supermarkets, labelled “broken jasmine rice”. Ordinary jasmine rice works well too.
- Can I cook the pork in a pan?
- Yes. Use a very hot griddle pan and don’t move the chops until they char, as the sugar in the marinade burns easily.
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