Caramelized Pork with Crunchy Shallots - Lynn Smythe
Learn how-to make a stir fried entree featuring pork and garlic, served with a sweet and salty caramel glaze and topped with crunchy fried shallots.
This recipe for stir fried caramelized pork, with crispy shallots, makes 4 servings. Serve the pork along with a generous portion of sticky rice, to soak up the wonderful sticky caramel glaze.
Ingredients for Caramelized Pork with Crispy Shallots
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil, such as peanut oil or canola oil
- 6 Asian shallots - peeled and sliced thin
- 1 pound lean pork - remove any excess fat, then cut the pork into small, thin strips
- 6 cloves garlic - peeled and minced
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1/4 cup palm sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
Directions for Caramelized Pork with Crispy Shallots
- Place the vegetable oil in the bottom of a wok, or heavy sauce pan.
- Heat the oil over medium heat and fry the shallots until golden brown.
- Remove the fried shallots to a paper towel lined plate.
- Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the oil from the wok or sauce pan.
- Add the garlic, and stir fry for a minute or two, until fragrant and golden brown.
- Add the pork to the pan and stir fry until no longer pink.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, palm sugar and white pepper.
- Stir the sauce into the wok or sauce pan.
- Continue cooking the pork, until the liquid in the sauce has mostly evaporated and formed a thick, sticky caramel-like sauce.
- Place the caramelized pork onto a large serving platter and garnish with the crispy fried shallots.
- Serve immediately.
- Leftovers may be stored for a day or two, in the refrigerator, in an airtight container.
Recipes Tips and Suggestions
- Shallots look a bit like a small, oblong, red onion. French shallots, which can be found at most grocery stores, may be substituted for Asian shallots.
- Online specialty stores, such as Importfood.com, carry a full array of Thai cooking ingredients and utensils.
- Palm sugar comes packaged in small discs. The discs must be pounded out, using a mortar and pestle, before being measured out and used in recipes. Light brown sugar may be substituted for the palm sugar.
- Add one or two crushed Thai peppers, when cooking this recipe, to create a hot and spicy version of caramelized pork with crispy shallots.
Additional Thai Style Recipes
Sticky rice is a wonderful, classic Thai side dish to serve along with caramelized pork with stir fried shallots. The Thai style meatballs with spicy peanut sauce recipe can be made with either ground beef, pork or turkey. Serve cool and crisp Asian-Style Vegetable Salad with ginger teriyaki dressing along with the Thai-style meatballs.
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Lynn Smythe - ABOUT THE WRITER Born and raised in Rochester, New York, freelance writer Lynn Smythe obtained her bachelor's degree in Geology from ...
