A full flavoured light and healthy lunch that can be prepared quickly. The prune and pork meat balls are moist and deliciously sweet.
Level of Difficulty:
1/5
Pork and Prunes Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1kg lean pork mince
- 200g chopped Australian Prunes
- 100g peanuts
- 2 shallots
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 small knob of ginger
- 60ml fish sauce
Method
- 1. Roughly chop shallots, garlic and ginger and place in mortar and pestle.
- 2. Pound together with peanuts, add fish sauce.
- 3. Place pork and prunes into a large bowl and add the mix from the mortar and pestle.
- 4. Mix together by hand and then shape into balls. Makes about 20.
- 5. Place on a baking sheet and cook at 180°C for about 10 mins or until cooked.
The Banh Mi
Ingredients
- 4 crusty baguette rolls
- 12 pork and prune meatballs
- 100ml mayonnaise
- 50ml sriracha sauce (type of chilli sauce)
- a handful of pickled carrot and diakon
- 1/3 cup rice vinegar
- Pinch of sugar
- 1 bunch coriander
- chopped red chillies (if you like it hot)
Method
- 1. Mix together the mayonnaise and sriracha sauce and generously spread on each roll.
- 2. Finely dice the carrot and daikon. Mix together with rice vinegar and a pinch of sugar.
- 3. Fill the rolls with pickles, coriander and chilli.
- 4. Top with pork and prune meatballs.
DID YOU KNOW?
Prunes contain beta-carotene and Vitamin K which make people happier
