Nem Nuong
Grilled Vietnamese pork sausage skewers with garlic and toasted rice, wrapped in rice paper with herbs.
- prep 30 min
- cook 12 min
- total 42 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
- Vietnam
Ingredients
- 800 g ground pork
- 150 g fatback
- 8 cloves garlic
- 3 shallots
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp rice powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 16 rice paper
- 300 g vermicelli
- 1 head lettuce
- 20 g mint
- 1 cucumber
- 200 ml peanut sauce
Steps
- Blitz pork, fatback, garlic, shallots, fish sauce, sugar, baking powder, rice powder into a sticky paste.
- Rest 1 hour, shape around flat skewers into cylinders.
- Grill over medium-high heat 10 minutes, turning, brushing with oil.
- Wrap dipped rice paper around noodles, herbs, cucumber, and sliced nem nuong.
- Dip in warm peanut sauce.
≈ 640 kcal · 34 g protein · 58 g carbs · 30 g fat — per serving, estimate