Grilled Recipe ⋮ Vietnamese Grilled Pork Skewers

For this dish, we need to prepare two things (1) the grilled pork, and (2) the dipping sauce.

Ingredients

• 1 pound pork belly, cubed
• 1 fresh red chile pepper, minced
• 3 stalks lemongrass, minced
• 3 tablespoons fish sauce
• 3 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
• 1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG)
• 1 teaspoon white sugar
• 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
• bamboo skewers
• ¼ cup fish sauce
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 fresh red chile pepper, minced, or more to taste
• 1 lime, juiced
• 5 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
• 1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG), or to taste
• 1 cup water

Cooking Directions

1. Combine pork belly, 1 red chile pepper, lemongrass, 3 tablespoons fish sauce, 3 cloves garlic, 1 teaspoon MSG, 1 teaspoon white sugar, and five-spice powder in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until marinated, 1 to 3 hours.
2. Mix 1/4 cup fish sauce, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 red chile pepper, lime juice, 5 cloves garlic, and 1 teaspoon MSG together in a bowl. Let sit until dipping sauce flavors meld, 30 minutes to 1 hour. Pour in water.
3. Thread the marinated pork belly onto bamboo skewers.
4. Preheat grill for high heat and lightly oil the grate. Cook pork skewers, turning occasionally, until crisp, 8 to 10 minutes. Serve with the dipping sauce.

Nutrition Facts

• calories201
• carbohydrateContent15.3 g
• cholesterolContent27.3 mg
• fatContent10.6 g
• fiberContent0.3 g
• proteinContent10.8 g
• saturatedFatContent3.4 g
• sodiumContent2019.6 mg
• sugarContent9.9 g