Crispy pork roll, a Vietnamese street food delicacy, is a delightful combination of savory, crunchy, and flavorful ingredients. This delectable dish features tender pork belly marinated in a blend of spices and herbs, wrapped in rice paper, and deep-fried until golden brown. The crispy exterior yields to a juicy and succulent interior, while the accompanying dipping sauce adds a perfect balance of sweetness, sourness, and umami. This recipe guide provides step-by-step instructions for preparing crispy pork rolls at home, along with variations such as using ground pork, shrimp, or vegetables as fillings. Additionally, it includes recipes for the traditional dipping sauce, pickled vegetables, and a refreshing cucumber salad to serve alongside the crispy pork rolls. Whether you're a seasoned Vietnamese cuisine enthusiast or new to exploring its flavors, this comprehensive guide will equip you with the knowledge and techniques to create this iconic dish in your own kitchen.
Here are our top 5 tried and tested recipes!
CRISPY PORK & VEGETABLE ROLLS
Crispy Thai rolls with pork and vegetables - great for a starter. You can make these ahead and freeze
Provided by Mary Cadogan
Categories Buffet, Canapes
Time 45m
Yield Serves 6, with other dishes
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Blend the cornflour with 3 tbsp cold water to make a paste to stick the rolls together. Put the noodles in a heatproof bowl, pour over boiling water to cover and leave for 3 minutes. Drain. Cool under running cold water, then drain well, tip into a large bowl and snip into small pieces with scissors.
- Add the pork, garlic, carrot, mushrooms, coriander, soy sauce, sugar and pepper. Mix together well with your hands.
- Take one wrapper out of the pack and put it on a board (keep the rest covered or they will dry out). Cut the wrapper in four and put a heaped teaspoon of filling onto one side of each square, brushing the sides with paste as you go (1), fold over the end, then the two sides (2) and roll up (3). Make the rest in the same way. Cover and chill until needed.
- Heat about 3cm of oil in a wok or frying pan, add half the rolls and fry until crisp and golden, about 2-3 minutes. Drain on kitchen paper and cook the rest. Serve on a platter with lettuce leaves, mint sprigs and a small bowl of dipping sauce. Get each guest to take a leaf of lettuce and a mint spring, then wrap it around a roll with a slick of sauce - a lovely combination.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 307 calories, Fat 16 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 36 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 3 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 7 grams protein, Sodium 2.11 milligram of sodium
CRISPY PORK ROLL
GemWraps are new and easy to work with.
Provided by Dave Smith
Categories Meat Appetizers
Time 10m
Number Of Ingredients 25
Steps:
- 1. 1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease a rimmed baking sheet.
- 2. 2. Quarter lengthwise the pork into 4 even fillets.
- 3. 3. Mix breadcrumbs, sugar, paprika, and salt.
- 4. 4. Drizzle with oil and mix in with a fork until the oil is thoroughly incorporated.
- 5. 5. Beat egg white. Dredge pork in cornstarch, then egg, then panko mixture.
- 6. 6. Bake until thermometer registers 145°F, about 14 to 16 minutes.
- 7. 7. Toss cabbage, carrots, vinegar, mayo, wasabi paste and season with black pepper.
- 8. 8. Lay Origami Carrot Ginger Wrap shiny side down.
- 9. 9. Lay in rice, radish, slaw then chicken strips. Roll and cut. Serve with Tonkatsu Sauce.
- 10. Tonkatsu Sauce Directions 1. Heat to a simmer, blending all ingredients thoroughly. Cool & store.
PORK ROAST WITH CRISPY PORK CRACKLING
Recipe video above. This is how to make a pork roast with tender juicy flesh, with a crazy-crispy crackling! The crackle is bubbly and puffy from edge to edge as it should be, rather than an impenetratable rock hard flat sheet of skin or worse still, littered with rubbery patches.And the gravy is to die for, thanks to the flavour loaded roasting pan juices!KEY STEPS: Use pork shoulder, dry skin, no need to score (but if it's already scored, that's ok), salt the skin evenly, slow roast low uncovered, keep the skin surface level using foil balls, and blast it for crispy skin! Read the post for extra tips, step photos, and why this recipe works!
Provided by Nagi
Categories Mains
Time 3h35m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Dry skin: Pat the skin dry with paper towels. If time permits, leave in the fridge uncovered overnight (even 1 hr helps). If not, pat extra well.
- Preheat oven to 220°C/430°F (200°C fan).
- Season flesh: Sprinkle pork flesh with 1 1/2 tsp salt, all the pepper and all fennel seeds and 1 tbsp olive oil. Rub into flesh, right into all the crevices and cracks.
- Salt skin: Flip pork, drizzle skin with 1 tsp oil, then rub all over with fingers. Sprinkle all over with remaining 1 1/2 tsp salt, taking care to get even coverage. Un-salted patches will not become bubbly crackling, it will be a hard flat sheet.
- Garlic & onion bed: Place halved garlic bulbs and onion in roasting pan. Place pork skin side up on top of them.
- Wine: Carefully pour wine into the pan, being sure not to wet the skin. Transfer to oven.
- Lower oven: Immediately turn oven down to 160°C/320°F (140°C fan).
- Slow roast: Roast for 2 1/2 hours.
- Level at 1 1/2 hours: Check pork after 1 1/2 hours to see if the pork is warped and the skin's overall surface is significantly unlevelled. If so, adjust to make the skin surface as level as possible using balls of foil and moving large dislodged pork pieces to the side (key tip for crispy crackling, Note 3). Then return to oven for the remaining 1 hour.
- Check pan & salt on skin: If pan is drying out, add some water. If there are bald patches on the skin without salt (eg it fell off), spray lightly with oil spray (or brush lightly with oil) then sprinkle with salt. (Remember, salt = bubbly skin!)
- Increase heat: Turn oven up to 250°C/485°F (all oven types), or as high as it will go if your oven won't go this high.
- Make skin crisp: Return pork to oven for 30 minutes, rotating pan as needed, until skin is crisp and bubbly all over. If needed, use foil patches, secured with water soaked toothpicks, to cover parts that are done and keep crisping up remaining patches.
- Rest: Transfer pork to serving platter, tent loosely with foil (don't worry, crackling stays super-crisp) and rest for 20 minutes (stays warm up to 1 hour). Then slice using a serrated knife.
- Serve with gravy. Don't pour gravy over crackling - pour it off to the side! See note for reheating.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 344 g, Calories 746 kcal
SLOW-ROAST PORK ROLLS WITH APPLE CHILLI CHUTNEY
Don't stint on the cooking time - it really is the key to meltingly soft, full-flavoured meat
Provided by Sarah Cook
Categories Dinner, Main course
Time 6h15m
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Heat oven to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. Sit the pork in a large roasting tin. If the skin isn't already scored for you, score it with a small, sharp knife. Mix together the thyme, fennel seeds, oil and 1 tsp salt with a good grinding of black pepper. Rub this over the top and ends of the pork. Roast for 30 mins, then cover the whole tin with a large sheet of foil, reduce the oven temperature to 140C/120C fan/gas 1 and return the pork to the oven for a further 5 hrs.
- While the pork is cooking, make the chutney. Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Soften the onion and chilli together for 10-15 mins. Once soft, stir in the apple chunks, vinegar and sugar with 50ml water. Cover and cook over a low heat for 15-20 mins, stirring occasionally, until the apple is very soft. Blitz half the apple mixture with a hand blender, or scoop half into a food processor and whizz until smooth, before stirring back into the pan with the leaves from the thyme sprig.
- Take the pork from the oven - the meat should be very tender - and increase the temperature to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. When the oven has reached temperature, discard the foil and put the pork back in for 30 mins to crisp up the skin a little. For really crisp crackling, remove the skin from the meat, wrap the meat in foil to keep warm, and return only the skin to the oven for 30 mins. Use a couple of forks to shred the pork from the joint. Sandwich in soft buttered rolls with apple chilli chutney, warm or at room temperature. Serve with pieces of crisp crackling on the side.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 714 calories, Fat 41 grams fat, SaturatedFat 15 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 22 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 21 grams sugar, Fiber 2 grams fiber, Protein 66 grams protein, Sodium 1.31 milligram of sodium
SLOW-ROAST ROLLED PORK BELLY
Our October 2010 Good Food magazine cover recipe in all its crispy, crackly, melt-in-the-mouth glory
Provided by Matt Tebbutt
Categories Buffet, Dinner, Main course
Time 3h10m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Toast the spices in a dry frying pan for a couple of mins. Pound them together in a pestle and mortar with some flaked sea salt, the garlic and half the thyme to make a paste, then mix with 2 tbsp olive oil.
- Lay the pork on a board skin-side down. Rub the herb mix all over the flesh then scatter with the remaining whole thyme leaves. Neatly roll the meat into a joint surrounded by the skin then use butchers' string to tie the joint tightly at regular intervals to hold the joint together. Cover and chill, leaving to marinate for a few hours or overnight.
- When ready to cook, rub the skin of the joint with plenty of salt and 1 tbsp remaining olive oil. Put it on a wire rack and roast at 200C/180C fan/gas 6 for 30 mins. After this time, squeeze the lemons over the skin and turn the heat down to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Roast for a further 2 hrs. Finally turn the heat back up to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and give it a final blast for another 30 mins or so, to finish the crisping of the skin. Allow to rest somewhere warm for 20 mins. Carve up into thick slices and serve with your favourite roast dinner accompaniments.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 585 calories, Fat 44 grams fat, SaturatedFat 16 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 2 grams carbohydrates, Protein 45 grams protein, Sodium 0.83 milligram of sodium
Tips:
- Choose the right pork belly: Look for pork belly with a good amount of fat and meat. The fat will help the pork belly become crispy, while the meat will provide flavor.
- Score the pork belly: Scoring the pork belly will help the fat render and the skin become crispy. Make sure to score the pork belly deeply, but not all the way through to the meat.
- Season the pork belly: Season the pork belly with a mixture of salt, pepper, and other spices. You can also add a mixture of herbs, garlic, and ginger to give the pork belly more flavor.
- Roast the pork belly: Roast the pork belly in a preheated oven until the skin is crispy and the meat is cooked through. The roasting time will vary depending on the size of the pork belly.
- Rest the pork belly: Let the pork belly rest for a few minutes before slicing and serving. This will help the juices redistribute and make the pork belly more tender.
Conclusion:
Crispy pork belly is a delicious and versatile dish that can be served as an appetizer, main course, or snack. It is a popular dish in many cultures and can be cooked in a variety of ways. Whether you are roasting it in the oven, grilling it on the barbecue, or frying it in a pan, crispy pork belly is sure to be a hit with your friends and family. So, next time you are looking for a delicious and impressive dish to serve, give crispy pork belly a try.
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