The Food of Vietnam/1997

Pickled Sour Pork Sausage (Nem Chua)

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INGREDIENTS:
1 pound pork loin, sliced 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 cup fish sauce 4 ounces pork skin 3 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1/2 cup uncooked rice, roasted and ground banana leaves
2 cloves garlic, sliced 1 small red chili, sliced 1/2 cup pickled baby leeks



1 Pound pork meat thin and marinate with a portion of the salt, sugar and fish sauce. Cook pork skin until golden; allow to cool and cut into fine strips. Gently saute the garlic in oil until fragrant, then add remaining fish sauce and sugar, and reduce to a thick consistency.
2 Combine pork meat, pork skin, garlic, fish sauce and the rice meal. Shape into patties and place on banana leaf. Add a slice of garlic and a slice of chili before wrapping the "sausage" in the leaf. Refrigerate for 2 days. Serve with pickled leeks.

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