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Lemongrass meat skewers

• Uyen Luu

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Serves 4 - 5

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 17 mins

plus marinating

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Discover the smoky, fragrant flavours of one of Vietnam's most popular street eats, served with vermicelli noodles, fresh leaves and zingy pickles

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Recipes extracted from Quick & Easy Vietnamese by Uyen Luu (£25, Hardie Grant). Photographs by Uyen Luu.
Recipes are sent by the publisher and not retested by us.

Uyen Luu says "I often crave this street food treat. The whole city of Sài Gòn is filled with the smoky vapours of lemongrass chicken or pork skewers sizzling and hissing over charcoal fires. I love their sultry, velvety texture served with vermicelli noodles, fresh leaves and zingy pickles. To me this represents so much of what Vietnamese food is all about. It is heaven and earth, yin and yang, a balance of opposites."

Lemongrass meat skewers recipe

Ingredients

Nutrition

• 4 small round shallots

  finely diced

• 6 garlic cloves

  finely chopped

• 50g lemongrass

  finely chopped

• 40g brown sugar

  or maple syrup

• 2 tbsp premium fish sauce

• ½ tbsp ground black pepper

• 3 tbsp olive oil

• 650g pork belly

  thinly sliced, or chicken thighs, cut into bite-sized chunks

• vermicelli noodles, salad and pickles

  to serve

• spring rolls

  to serve (optional)

BASTING

• 1 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp premium fish sauce

Nutrition: PER SERVING (5)

• kcal466
• fat33g
• saturates10.5g
• carbs15.6g
• sugars11.8g
• fibre0.7g
• protein26.3g
• salt2.6g

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Method

• step 1

  Put the shallots, garlic, lemongrass, sugar, fish sauce, pepper and oil into a bowl, and whisk together until the sugar has dissolved.

• step 2

  Add the pork or chicken and stir to coat, then cover to marinate for at least 1 hr or overnight in the fridge.

• step 3

  Heat the oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Thread the marinated pork or chicken pieces onto soaked wooden or metal skewers and put on a wire rack set over a roasting tin. Cook in the oven for 12 mins.

• step 4

  Meanwhile, mix together the honey and fish sauce in a small bowl.

• step 5

  Remove the pork or chicken from the oven and set the grill to high. Brush the basting mixture over the skewers, then grill for 5 mins, turning occasionally.

• step 6

  Serve with the vermicelli noodles, salad and pickles. It is also fantastic with added spring rolls for a real treat.

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