Best Lemongrass Pork Loin Recipes
GRILLED PORK LOIN WITH LEMONGRASS
The beauty of butterflying and rolling up a pork loin is that the marinade covers more of it, spicing up every bite. Next, refrigerate and wait while the riot of bold flavors-lemongrass, shallots, soy and fish sauces, brown sugar-does its thing. A leisurely 40 minutes on the grill renders the pork tender. Then your job is a cinch: Just tuck it into lettuce wraps and top with fresh herbs and a pickled carrot-daikon slaw.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Pork Recipes
Time 10h15m
Yield Serves 6 to 8
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a food processor, pulse garlic to chop, then add lemongrass and pulse until finely chopped. Add shallot and pulse to create a fine paste. Pulse in oil, soy and fish sauces, and brown sugar until smooth.
- Butterfly pork loin: Place pork on a cutting board vertically (with short sides at top and bottom). Using a large, sharp knife, and starting at top, cut lengthwise down the center, almost all the way through but leaving a hinge of about 1/2 inch. Unfold, as if opening a book.
- With knife blade parallel to cutting board, slice through left side of loin, opening meat as you go, and again leaving a hinge. Repeat with right side. If needed, pound loin to an even thickness with a meat mallet. Season with salt, then rub half of lemongrass paste all over meat. Re-form into original shape, tie with kitchen twine at 2-inch intervals, and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate at least 8 hours and up to 1 day. Bring to room temperature 1 hour before grilling.
- Prepare grill for direct- and indirect-heat cooking. Remove pork from plastic; place over indirect heat, cover, and cook, maintaining a temperature of about 400°F, about 20 minutes. Brush with remaining lemongrass paste and continue cooking, covered, until a thermometer inserted into thickest part of pork registers 135°F, about 15 minutes.
- Transfer to direct heat and cook, uncovered, turning frequently, until charred in places and thermometer registers 138 ̊F, about 5 minutes more. Let pork stand about 10 minutes, then thinly slice and serve with pickles, chili sauce, lettuce, and herbs.
LEMONGRASS PORK LOIN
Steps:
- in a bowl, combine lemongrass, garlic, salt, coriander seeds, pepper and stir to mix. add the oil and stir into a thick paste. set aside
- lay pork loin on counter and make 1" deep cuts into pork, make cuts thicker and pull back like a magazine. do not cut through
- spread 3/4 of the mixture on the top of the pork and then roll the pork into a tight cylinder, securing it at 3" intervals with butcher's twine. rub the cylinder with the remainder of the spice rub. cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 8 hours.
- preheat oven to 325F, bring meat out and leave out to come to room temp.
- roast until temp reaches 140F. cover with foil and let sit on counter 15 min.
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