Southern Vietnam

Cha trung

Name: Cha trung
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 300 g minced pork (pork mince, ground pork); 4 two yolks kept aside egg; a small bundle soaked and cut sweet potato glass noodles (glass noodles, cellophane noodles); 4 pieces soaked and chopped dried wood ear mushroom (dried black fungus); 3 minced shallots; 2 cloves minced garlic; 1 tbsp fish sauce; 1 1/2 tsp sugar; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 1 sliced spring onion (green onion, scallion); 1 tsp for the dish cooking oil (vegetable oil)

Egg and pork steamed into a savoury meatloaf with a golden yolk lid. The quiet star of the broken rice plate.

45 minTime

20 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

318kcal

20 gprotein

1 gfibre

45minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Minced pork (pork mince, ground pork)300 g

Egg4, two yolks kept aside

Sweet potato glass noodles (glass noodles, cellophane noodles)a small bundle, soaked and cut

Dried wood ear mushroom (dried black fungus)4 pieces, soaked and chopped

Shallots3, minced

Garlic2 cloves, minced

Fish sauce1 tbsp

Sugar1½ tsp

Black pepper½ tsp

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)1, sliced

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tsp, for the dish

Method

5 steps

1Soak the glass noodles and wood ear in warm water for 10 minutes, drain and chop small.
2Beat two whole eggs and two whites. Keep the two yolks in a cup. Mix the pork, noodles, wood ear, shallots, garlic, fish sauce, sugar and pepper into the beaten eggs.
3Oil a heatproof dish, press the mix in evenly and steam over boiling water.
4Beat the yolks with a pinch of the spring onion, brush over the top and steam again.
5Rest 5 minutes, then slice into wedges.

Serve it like this

Cut into wedges and serve on broken rice with sliced cucumber, tomato and a small bowl of nuoc cham.

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