Name: Pork and Rice (Bai Sach Chrouk )
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons [60 ml] canola oil; 3 garlic cloves, minced; 3 tablespoons coconut palm sugar, finely chopped or grated, or 1 tablespoon lightly packed brown sugar; 4 fried eggs, for serving (optional); 1 bunch green onions, cut into thin slices; ¼ cup [60 ml] coconut milk; ¼ cup [60 ml] soy sauce; Four 1-inch- [2.5-cm-] thick, bone-in pork chops (about 1 pound [455 g]); Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; Steamed jasmine rice, for serving

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

We Are La Cocina

By Leticia Landa and Caleb Zigas

Published 2019

About

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