Spicy Grilled Pork Salad

by Tataya Kudo - March 25, 2013

For today recipe, I prepared very refreshing Spicy Grilled Pork Salad (Nam Tok Moo, นํ้าตกหมู) because it's been a while since I have shared Thai style salad. Spicy Grilled Pork salad is a very popular north eastern dish served at many street stalls in Bangkok. I hope you enjoy making this easy salad at home.

The keys to making this delicious meat salad are the PORK and "dressing".

Pork: I highly recommend you to use pork butt for this salad because they contain enough fat that carries the flavors over your taste buds.

Dressing : I like my salad dressing super hot and very spicy but this is up to you but please be generous with the amount of herbs and spices, e.g, shallots, peppermint leaves. Also for the best texture, don't skip the toasted ground rice, then you will get spicy grilled pork salad with the restaurant taste .

Sweet – not an essential element of this recipe but can help lessen the acidic and balance the flavor so don't forget to add a pinch of sugar to your salad.

Below is my Spicy Grilled Pork Salad (Nam Tok Moo, นํ้าตกหมู) recipe.

Ingredients

Yields 2-3 servings

30 minutes

200 grams pork butt
for the marinate
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/2 tablespoon Thai light soy sauce

for the dressing
good handful of peppermint leaves
1 stalk spring onion, sliced thinly
3-4 medium shallots, slice thinly
150 ml. water
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon toasted ground rice
1 tablespoon chili powder
3/4 tablespoon lime juice
a pinch of sugar
Preparation
1. Cut the pork into bite size pieces, marinate with the oyster sauce and Thai light soy sauce for 30 minutes, then grill it.

2. Transfer the pork into a small pot, add in water, bring to the boil.

3. Add in shallots, season with fish sauce, toasted ground rice, chili powder, lime juice and sugar. Add in spring onion and peppermint leaves, remove from heat.