This dish is super duper easy to make but tastes so delicious! If you know you are working late during the week, you can just marinade the meat the night before or early the morning of. Stephen doesn't like eating pork and he is not a fan of rice either but even he thought this was LOVELY!!! He ate the whole thing (not anything near the pork bone or the fat though hehehe). He wants to replace normal rice for broken rice in ALL his dishes :)Ingredients (serves 2)
2 pork loins with 2cm slots cut along the top - this will allow better concentration of flavours and faster cooking time
2 eggs
1 cucumber sliced length wise then thinly on a diagonal
1 tomato sliced in thin wedges
1 spring onion finely chopped
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 cups of broken rice
vegetable oil for frying
Marinade
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 large lemon grass finely chopped
2 gloves of finely chopped garlic
Method
- 1. Place your pork loin and all the marinade ingredients in a plastic zip lock bag. Make sure the marinade is evenly distributed over the pork. Leave this to marinade for at least 6 hours, overnight would be ideal.
- 2. Once you are ready to eat. Prepare and cook your broken rice in a rice cooker.
- 3. Place the spring onion and vegetable oil in a small bowl. Cover the bowl in cling film and heat this in the microwave for about 1 min on high heat.
- 4. If you can, try to cook your pork loin on a barbeque or ridged skillet for the charcoal line effect. If not, a fraying pan will be just fine. The pork needs to cook for about 3-5 minutes on each side, depending on how thick they are.
- 5. Just before you are ready to serve, fry your eggs (one at a time) in a small frying pan with plenty of oil to create a crispy boarder around your egg.
- 6. Arrange your rice on a plate. Spread some of the spring onion infused oil over the rice. Arrange your cucumber, tomato, egg and pork on and around the rice (if you put some effort into the presentation, it tastes even nicer!).
- 7. Pour some nuoc mam (refer to Vietnamese dipping sauce recipe) all over your dish. ENJOY!!!
Don't waste your time cooking rice in a pot, buy yourself a rice cooker. They are EASY to use and they do all the work for you. You might need a few practice with getting the amount of water right, but once you have that fine tuned, you are on your way to perfectly cooked rice every time. You can get a very basic rice cooker in Kmart for $15.
