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Vietnamese pork and mint meatballs

Name: Vietnamese pork and mint meatballs
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: /asian, /asian recipes
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon long-grain rice, unwashed; 450g minced pork; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 tablespoon fish sauce; 1 tablespoon caster sugar; Vietnamese mint leaves, to garnish; 1 teaspoon caster sugar; 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice; 1/4 cup (60ml) fish sauce; 1 red chilli, seeds removed, sliced

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by Jill Dupleix

Food writer

Oct 03, 2015

Impress at your next party with these tasty grilled pork meatballs with Vietnamese dipping sauce.

1 tablespoon long-grain rice, unwashed
450g minced pork
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon caster sugar
Vietnamese mint leaves, to garnish

Dipping sauce

1 teaspoon caster sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/4 cup (60ml) fish sauce
1 red chilli, seeds removed, sliced

Method

1.

Heat a small frypan over medium heat and dry toast the rice until golden, shaking pan to avoid burning. Grind to a powder in a coffee grinder or in a mortar and pestle.
2.

Combine the pork, ground rice, garlic, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp ground black pepper, fish sauce and sugar and knead until well-mixed.
3.

To make the dipping sauce, dissolve the sugar in the lime juice, then add the fish sauce and sliced chilli.
4.

With wet hands, roll pork mixture into small balls. Pan-fry over medium-high heat, turning, for 2-4 minutes in a little oil. Thread a toothpick through each mint leaf, then attach to a ball. Serve with sauce.