How To Make Vietnamese Grilled Pork Skewers
These grilled pork skewers are marinated with lemongrass and spices, cooked until crispy, and paired with a spicy and tangy dipping sauce.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lbpork belly,cubed
- 1fresh red chile pepper,minced
- 3lemongrass stalks,minced
- 3tbspfish sauce
- 3garlic cloves,minced, or more to taste
- 1tspmonosodium glutamate,(MSG)
- 1tspwhite sugar
- 1tspChinese five-spice powder
- bamboo skewers
For Dipping Sauce:
- ¼cupfish sauce
- ¼cupwhite sugar
- 1fresh red chile pepper,minced, or more to taste
- 1lime,juiced
- 5garlic cloves,minced, or more to taste
- 1tspmonosodium glutamate,(MSG), or to taste
- 1cupwater
Instructions
Pork Skewers:
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Combine the pork belly, red chile pepper, lemongrass, fish sauce, garlic, MSG, white sugar, and five-spice powder in a bowl.
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Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 to 3 hours until marinated.
Dipping Sauce:
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Mix the fish sauce, sugar, red chile pepper, lime juice, garlic, and MSG together in a bowl.
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Let sit for 30 minutes to 1 hour until dipping sauce for flavors meld. Pour in the water.
To Grill:
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Thread the marinated pork belly onto bamboo skewers. Preheat the grill for high heat and lightly oil the grate.
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Cook the pork skewers for 8 to 10 minutes, turning occasionally until crisp.
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Serve with the dipping sauce, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 459.95kcal
- Fat: 40.26g
- Saturated Fat: 14.65g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 18.69g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.35g
- Carbohydrates: 16.38g
- Fiber: 0.69g
- Sugar: 10.80g
- Protein: 8.94g
- Cholesterol: 54.43mg
- Sodium: 1886.00mg
- Calcium: 35.70mg
- Potassium: 351.85mg
- Iron: 1.69mg
- Vitamin A: 10.62µg
- Vitamin C: 26.77mg
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