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Thai Pomelo Salad with Baked Pork
This pomelo salad is THE most refreshing salad ever! It's best eaten cold and even then it still gives you a delicious burst of flavor in every bite! And the baked pork that goes with it is just as amazing!
- Prep time
- 40 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 165 grams pork
- ½ teaspoon black soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 4 cups pomelo
- 1 cup yardlong beans (cut diagonally and blanched)
- 5 Thai bird's eye chilis (cut into thin rounds)
- 8 kaffir lime leaves (julienned hair thin)
- 3 tablespoons deep fried shallots (you can make this yourself or buy the ready-made version)
- ½ tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- ½ tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon Thai chili paste
- ½ teaspoon Thai chili flakes
Instructions
- 1
Marinate the pork with black soy sauce, soy sauce and ground white pepper for 10 minutes. Then, bake at 180 °C for 20 minutes.
- 2
Start making the dressing by dissolving sugar in lime juice. Once the sugar is fully dissolved, add fish sauce, Thai chili paste and Thai chili flakes and mix.
- 3
When the pork is done, slice it into Thin pieces.
- 4
Place all the ingredients in a salad bowl, pour the dressing in and mix thoroughly.