Vietnamese pork \"spaghetti sauce\" over rice

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
1½ pounds Ground Pork
1½ tablespoon Sugar
4½ tablespoon Vietnamese Style Fish Sauce
1½ tablespoon Lime Juice
2 Serrano Chiles; seeded and chopped
¼ cup Garlic; chopped
1½ cup Shallots; chopped
½ teaspoon Black Pepper
5 larges Tomatoes; seeded and chopped
¼ cup Tomato Paste
1½ cup Chicken Stock
Coriander Leaves
Hot Steamed Rice

Directions

Pour oil into a saucepan and place over high heat. Add pork and saute until lightly browned, about 5 minutes, breaking up lumps. Add sugar, 1½ tb fish sauce, the lime juice and chiles. Cook 1 minute. Set aside in a bowl.

Put garlic, shallots, pepper and more oil if needed into the saucepan; fry over medium heat until fragrant. Add tomato and cook until reduced to a slightly lumpy sauce, about 5 minutes. Add pork, tomato paste, remaining fish sauce and chicken stock; simmer 10 minutes. Garnish with coriander. Serve over hot steamed rice.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Typed by Katherine Smith Kook-Net: The Shadow Zone IV - Stinson Beach, CA

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