ยำหมูกรอบ or Crispy Pork Salad
Cooking and me were never good friends before I came to the US. I suppose I was too lazy back then and never cared about learning it since my mom would do it anyways.
Now that I have to live away from home, knowing how to cook has become more important than ever. For a reason, it’s too expensive to eat out over here. I’ll need at least $10 each time to do. Twice a day and 31 days a month, that will total to around $620 a month. Yikes! For another, I can’t see myself eating American food everyday. It’s not because their food is bad; it’s just it is often too rich and that isn’t quite compatible with an Asian system like mine.
So the other day, I tried out this one dish called ยำหมูกรอบ or Crispy Pork Salad, which I had grown to love and would eat regularly when I was in Thailand this summer. Just like other salads, this salad was quite simple and easy to make. The only time-consuming part, though, was the making of the Crispy Pork itself – which took me almost an hour to make. Unless you don’t have access to a ready-made crispy pork, you may wanna skip this part. But again, it’s always good to try doing something like that at least once and make yourself proud. 
For those who wanna make it, below is the recipe:
- CRISPY PORK SALAD
- Ingredients
- 300 g of pork belly (សាច់ជ្រូកបីជាន់)
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 cup of vinegar
- 6 cups of cooking oil
- How to make it
- Thoroughly mix the salt and vinegar.
- Boil the pork belly until it is well cooked.
- Take the belly out of the pot and leave it until it’s dry.
- Score the skin on the belly of pork crossways with a sharp knife.; then paint it with the salt and vinegar you mix and leave to dry.
- Heat your frying pan until it’s really hot.
- Add the pork strips in batches & deep-fry for about 40 mins, or until the skin has crackled & is golden.
- Cut the pork crossways into thin strips, and it should be ready for our salad.
- Ingredients
- SALAD
- Ingredients
- 50 g of thinly sliced cucumber
- 50 g of thinly sliced onion
- 50 g of sliced tomato
- 50 g of lettuce
- 50 g of cilantro (ជីវ៉ាន់ស៊ុយ)
- 1 tablespoon of lime juice
- 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of ground chili
- How to make the salad
- Mix the fish sauce, lime juice and sugar together in a small bowl.
- Mix the crispy pork with the cucumber, onion, tomato, lettuce and cilantro we prepared in a salad bowl.
- Pour the ground chili and dressing we prepared in step 1 onto the salad mix and toss them together.
- Ingredients
Then your yummy salad should be ready! Enjoy!
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