Thit Nuong is a popular Vietnamese grilled pork dish, marinated in lemongrass, garlic, and fish sauce, known for its smoky flavor and tender texture. Perfect with vermicelli noodle salad or stuffed in a Banh mi.
Ingredients
Marinade:
3lbpork tenderloin, thinly sliced
¼cupshallots, minced
2Tbspgarlic, minced
¼cupfish sauce
¼cupbrown sugar
½tspblack pepper
2Tbsplow sodium soy sauce
2lemongrass stalks, finely chopped
1Tbspolive oil
Ingredients:
2Tbspsesame oil
¼cupunsalted butter
Scallion oil for garnish:
8green onions, chopped
½cupavocado oil, or any neutral oil
Instructions
Mix all ingredients together and marinate overnight, or at least 4 hours.
Remove marinated pork from fridge.
Bring it to room temperature, about an hour.
Grill over a charcoal grill (preferred), gas grill, or fry in a large cast iron skillet.
If not grilling, then use a large skillet, on medium high heat, add 2 Tbsp sesame oil and ¼ cup butter to the pan.
Add half of the marinated pork and cook for 4 minutes, untouched.
Flip meat over, reduce heat to medium, then cook for another 4 minutes.
Remove meat from pan and repeat process with the second batch.
To make the green onion oil, heat 1/2 cup oil in a small saucepan. Make sure to never fill the pan more than 1/3 or hot oil will overflow.
Once oil is hot, remove from heat and add green onions.
Garnish grilled pork with green onion oil.
You can serve this in a banh mi sandwich, eat with a vermicelli noodle salad, or serve it with rice.