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Com tam

Broken rice, grilled pork chop, a fried egg over the top.

Com tam
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Broken rice and grilled pork

50 minutes · serves 4 · Medium

What you need

  • 4 pork chops, bashed thin
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 300g broken rice or jasmine rice
  • 4 eggs
  • Cucumber and tomato
  • Nuoc cham
  • Spring onion oil

What you do

  1. 1Marinate the flattened chops in fish sauce, sugar, crushed garlic and honey for at least an hour.
  2. 2Grill over a high heat, 4 minutes a side, until the sugars catch and blacken in places.
  3. 3Rice steamed as usual — broken rice if you can find it, for the softer texture.
  4. 4Fry an egg per person, lacy edges, soft yolk.
  5. 5Rice, chop, egg, a spoon of spring onion oil, salad, and nuoc cham poured over the lot.

With pork belly slices

35 minutes · serves 2 · Easy

What you need

  • 300g pork belly slices
  • Fish sauce, sugar, garlic
  • Rice
  • 2 eggs
  • Nuoc cham

What you do

  1. 1Marinate 20 minutes, then fry hard until the edges crisp.
  2. 2Rice, egg, sauce.