Name: Lemongrass “Hamburgers”
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon nam pla; Salt and black pepper to taste; Lime wedges or Dijon mustard for serving; 1 teaspoon stemmed, seeded, and minced fresh chile or hot red pepper flakes, or to taste; 3 or 4 large shallots or 1 medium red onion, peeled; 4 garlic cloves, peeled; 1½ to 2 pounds boneless pork, preferably from the shoulder; 2 lemongrass stalks, trimmed and finely chopped

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

The Best Recipes in the World

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

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Of all the powerful ingredients in these burgers—lemongrass, shallots, garlic, chile, and nam pla (called nuoc mam in Vietnamese for information on these Asian fish sauces)—none survives the cooking as well as the lemongrass, whose distinctive scent and flavor override all the others, reducing them to bit players.

Lemongrass is changed less by cooking than most seasonings, and this goes for its woody texture too, which is why you remove t

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