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Banh Mi Salad with Slow Cooked Pork


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Ingredients

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Pulled Pork:

  • 1kg pork shoulder or leg, bone in
  • 2cm piece ginger
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 jalapeno, diced (optional)
  • 3/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

Pickled Carrot:

  • 2 carrots, cut into thin sticks
  • 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • pinch salt

Banh Mi Salad:

  • 1 packet vermicelli rice noodles
  • 1 cucumber, peeled in ribbons
  • 1/2 each of green, red and yellow capsicums, sliced thinly
  • 1 bunch coriander
  • mayonnaise to serve
  • lime juice to serve
  • crushed peanuts to serve

Instructions

SLOW COOKER METHOD

In a slow cooker combine the ginger, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar and jalapeno.  Season the pork well with salt and pepper and add to the slow cooker.  Cover and cook on high for 4 hours, rotating the pork every hour.  Once the pork is cooked, remove bones and the piece of ginger and shred the meat into the sauce.

To make the pickled carrot, in a medium glass bowl combine the vinegar, sugar and salt until dissolved.  Add the carrots and sit for 30 mins, then store in the fridge.

Cook the rice noodles as per packet instructions and allow to cool.

Once everything is ready, combine to each person’s taste and top with a squeeze of lime and crushed nuts.

NON SLOW COOKER METHOD

Pre heat oven to 150°C.  In a large casserole pot with lid, combine the ginger, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar and jalapeno.  Season the pork well with salt and pepper and add to the pot.  Cover with lid and place in oven for 4 hours, rotating the pork every hour.  Once the pork is cooked, remove bones and the piece of ginger and shred the meat into the sauce.

To make the pickled carrot, in a medium glass bowl combine the vinegar, sugar and salt until dissolved.  Add the carrots and sit for 30 mins, then store in the fridge.

Cook the rice noodles as per packet instructions and allow to cool.

Once everything is ready, combine to each person’s taste and top with a squeeze of lime and crushed nuts.

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