Grilled Pork Noodles

Name: Grilled Pork Noodles
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams cups bean sprouts, rinsed and drained; 12 cilantro sprigs; 237 milliliters About sweet and sour fish sauce; 2 cloves garlic; 2 Tbsps hoisin sauce; 59 milliliters honey; 2 stalks (about 3/4 oz. total) fresh lemon grass; 12 mint sprigs; 118 milliliters sliced onion; 2 Tbsps oyster sauce; 1 teaspoon pepper; 680 grams boned center-cut pork loin; 170 grams red-leaf lettuce, crisped and torn into bite-size pieces; 454 grams dried rice noodles (maifun, rice sticks, or rice vermicelli); 118 milliliters crushed or finely chopped roasted, salted peanuts; 2 Tbsps soy sauce

Grilled Pork Noodles might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe covers 29% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 547 calories, 34g of protein, and 6g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. It is perfect for The Fourth Of July. A mixture of pepper, cilantro sprigs, oyster sauce, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Soak 6 to 12 thin wood skewers (8 to 10 in. long) in water at least 15 minutes.

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Water

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Wooden Skewers

Meanwhile, trim off and discard tough tops and root ends of lemon grass.

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Lemon Grass

Remove and discard tough outer layers of stalks until you reach tender inner part.

Cut tender part into 1/4-inch pieces.

In a blender, combine lemon grass, garlic, onion, oyster sauce, hoisin, soy, honey, and pepper; whirl until finely ground and soupy.

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Oyster Sauce

Lemon Grass

Garlic

Hoisin Sauce

Pepper

Honey

Onion

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Blender

Trim and discard fat from pork. Slice meat across grain as thin as possible, then slice into about 1-inch-wide strips. Coat pork slices with lemon grass mixture.

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Lemon Grass

Cooked Pork

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Meat

Pork

Weave wood skewers in and out of meat strips, down the center, at 1-inch intervals. Loosely push meat together so it bunches up, filling skewers equally.

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Meat

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Skewers

In a 5- to 6-quart pan over high heat, bring about 3 quarts water to a boil.

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Water

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Frying Pan

Add rice noodles and cook until they are barely tender to bite, 3 to 5 minutes.

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Rice Noodles

Drain, then immerse the hot noodles in cold water.

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Pasta

Water

Let stand until cool, then drain.

Divide lettuce, bean sprouts, and mint and cilantro sprigs among 6 wide soup bowls. Mound equal portions of noodles in the bowls.

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Bean Sprouts

Cilantro

Lettuce

Pasta

Mint

Soup

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Bowl

Place pork on a barbecue grill over a solid bed of hot coals or high heat on a gas grill (you can hold your hand at grill level only 2 to 3 seconds); cover gas grill. Cook pork, turning to brown the meat on all sides, 6 to 8 minutes total.

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Meat

Pork

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