Nha Trang Grill Pork Sticks

(Nem Nướng Nha Trang) - Nha Trang Grill Pork Sticks is an amazing dish in beautiful beach city. 

Beside grilled pork sticks, one important thing to create its flavor is sauce. Serving with vegetables and this sauce will bring you a spectacular feeling which you ever feel before.

Ingredients

- Grinded pork: 600g

- Grease pork: 100g

- Spices to marinate pork: 

3 tablespoons fish sauce, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons sugar, ½ teaspoon blooming flour, 1 teaspoon pepper, 2 tablespoons tapioca starch, 2 teaspoon annatto seed oil and purple onion

- Making sauce: 

150g prawns, 150g grinded pork, 100g pork liver, ½ bowl sticky rice, ½ bowl soya sauce, salt, sugar, annatto seed oil, purple onion, fish sauce.

- Vegetables: 

basil leaves, Vietnamese mint herb, mint leaves, cucumber, green star fruit or green banana

Vermicelli, rice paper, chili, roasted peanut, banana leaves for wrapping rice paper before serving in 2 – 3 hours

Wood sticks to grill

Process

- Clean well pork grease, slice into small cubes. 

- Marinate grinded pork with all spices you prepared above, use big spoon to mix well until this mixture becomes thick and soft. Cover carefully and put in fridge for 1 night (vegetable drawer). 

- Next day, add a little on your hands, scoop 1 spoon mixture pork, wrap it carefully around wood stick. Repeat this step until all pork mixture is done. Bring to grill at 160 degree about 10 – 15 minutes. Sometimes, use small brush to spread a little oil on their faces to make sure they will not be dried after grilled.  

- Clean sticky rice in 2 – 3 times, soak in water for 1 night or about 5 hours. Next, pour into pot, add 1 bowl water, cook until it is soft. Pour into bowl and smash well. 

- Peel off the cover and black lines on prawns’ backs. Grind quickly. Clean and mince well pork liver. 

- Heat 3 annatto seed oil, add minced purple onion and fry until it is fragrant. Then, add prawn into pan and fry about 3 – 5 minutes. 

- Next, add grinded pork, minced liver into pan to fry together. When it is cooked, pour into grinder machine and grind well more once more time. 

- Then, pour more slowly soya sauce into pan. Do not stop stirring when cooking. Season with a little sugar, salt, fish sauce 

- Cook about 10 – 20 minutes, turn off the heat, pour into clean bowl, add more roasted peanut and chili 

- Clean all vegetables. 

- Clean cucumber, cut off the seeds and slice thinly. 

- For eating, arrange a little vermicelli, vegetables, grilled pork on rice paper, wrap and roll carefully and you can enjoy with the special sauce.

Hope you will satisfy with Nha Trang Grill Pork Sticks and Good Luck for your Cooking!