Monday, January 15, 2007

Asian Spice Rub Pork Lettuce Wraps

The other day my mate Stu gave me a deluxe chunk of pork and invited himself over for supper. (Mental note: if you give me quality meat, you can come to eat!) That humble pork roast was magically transformed tonight into Asian Spice Rub Lettuce Wraps. Here's the lowdown.


Ingredients
yummy chunk o' pork

Marinade
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1 cup sake
2 tablespoons black bean sauce
2 tablespoons ABC sweet soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
thumb ginger, grated
3 cloves garlic, crushed

Spice Rub
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon chinese 5 spice powder
1 teaspoon ground pepper
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon green tea, powdered
1 teaspoon lemonade crystals
2 teaspoons brown sugar

Asian Slaw
1 cucumber, grated
4 carrots, grated
1 sm daikon, grated
1 fistful beansprouts
sm bunch fresh mint finely chopped
sm bunch fresh basil finely chopped
sm bunch fresh cilantro finely chopped
1 handful crushed peanuts
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup oil
juice 1 lime
splash fish sauce
splash sesame oil
2 tablespoons brown sugar

rice stick noodles
1 or 2 heads iceberg lettuce
crushed peanuts
Sriracha Rooster Sauce
ABC sweet soy sauce

Instructions
-Mix all marinade ingredients and pour over pork in a Ziplock bag. Marinate in fridge overnight. 2 hours before tucker time dry off pork and make spice rub.
-Mix spices and rub on meat. (Duh, that's why it's called spice rub.) Fire up your BBQ on high but only light one side. Put the pork ON THE SIDE THAT IS NOT LIT. This is called indirect grilling and is a fabulous way to cook a larger piece of meat. After a half hour rotate the meat so that the side that was away from the heat gets a turn.
-Meanwhile, make your asian slaw which just involves alot of grating and chopping.
-Soften the rice stick noodles by pouring boiling water over them and let them sit for 10 min
-After 1 hour of indirect grilling check your pork. It should be done, take it off, slice, shred, or chop and sprikle it with any leftover rub.
-drain and rinse the noodles and prepare for yumminess

Get yourself a very large napkin cuz this is going to be messy but worth it. Pull off a large leaf of lettuce to use in a burritoesque fashion. Place some noodles, pork, slaw, peanuts, and a drizzle of ABC and Sriracha into the leaf. Wrap it all up and munch to your heart's content.

1 comment:

philter said...

yea, the .ca works great.

Later my friend