Thit Nuong is a popular Vietnamese grilled pork dish, marinated in lemongrass, garlic, and fish sauce, known for its smoky flavor and tender texture. Perfect with vermicelli noodle salad or stuffed in a Banh mi.
Ingredients
Caramel Sauce
⅓cupfish sauce
⅓cupbrown sugar
Marinade:
3lbpork tenderloin, thinly sliced
¼cupshallots, minced
2Tbspgarlic, minced
½tspblack pepper
2Tbsplow sodium soy sauce
2lemongrass stalks, finely chopped
2Tbspsesame oil
¼cupfish sauce
¼cupbrown sugar
Caramel sauce (see instructions below)
Scallion oil for garnish:
8green onions, chopped
½cupavocado oil, or any neutral oil
Instructions
In a pan, on medium heat, add fish sauce and sugar and mix together and let it caramelize to an amber brown color. Remove from heat and let it cool.
Mix all ingredients together and marinate overnight, or at least 4 hours.
Remove marinated pork from fridge. Bring it to room temperature, about an hour. Grill over a charcoal grill (preferred), gas grill, or fry in a large cast iron skillet.
To make the green onion oil, heat ½ cup oil in a small saucepan. Make sure to never fill the pan more than ⅓ or hot oil will overflow.
Once oil is hot, remove from heat and add green onions. Garnish grilled pork with green onion oil.
You can serve this in a banh mi sandwich, eat with a vermicelli noodle salad, or serve it with rice.