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Preparation
20 minutes
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Processing
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
If you are wondering what to cook for your family or loved ones this weekend, don’t worry, today TasteVN will show you how to make grapefruit leaf rolls, a rolled dish that is delicious, attractive, and extremely simple to make!
Ingredients for Grapefruit Leaf Rolls For 3 people
Pork 300 gr Grapefruit leaves 20 gr (about 20 leaves) Shallots 2 bulbs Fish sauce 1 teaspoon Common spices A little (salt/ ground pepper/ monosodium glutamate)
How to choose fresh and delicious pork
- About color: Prefer to choose fresh pieces of meat that have bright colors (light pink or light red) and the fat should be white and slightly translucent. Avoid choosing meat that has unusual colors, pale colors, or too dark colors. If the meat looks shiny and feels slimy when touched, it is better not to buy it.
- About smell: Good meat will have the characteristic aroma of meat, which is not unpleasant and does not have a strong fishy smell. Pieces of meat with strange smells, fishy odors, or rotten smells are a sign of poor quality meat, so you should avoid them!
- About elasticity: If it is fresh meat, when you press on the piece of meat with your hand, you will feel good elasticity. Additionally, when touched, the meat should feel firm, not too hard or mushy, and there should be no slimy liquid coming out, then it can be chosen for purchase.
How to Make Grapefruit Leaf Rolls
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Prepare the Ingredients
For shallots, peel off the skin, wash thoroughly, and chop finely.
Similarly, for the meat you purchased, wash it clean and then chop it finely.
For the grapefruit leaves, soak them in salt water for about 5 minutes, then rinse thoroughly with water multiple times and let them drain.
Tip: How to Clean Pork Properly and Eliminate Odor
- Blanch in boiling water: Place the meat in a pot of boiling water for about 2 – 3 minutes. Then, quickly remove the meat and rinse it with clean water to eliminate the odor!
- Soak in diluted salt water: After cleaning the meat, soak it in water mixed with salt for 25 – 30 minutes, then rinse it with clean water to also reduce the odor.
- Use ingredients to eliminate odor: Before preparing to blanch the meat, you can add ingredients such as dried shallots, white wine, vinegar, ginger, or lemongrass into the pot of water and blanch for about 2 – 3 minutes!
See details: How to clean pork properly and without odor.
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Marinate the meat
Add 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of MSG, 1 teaspoon of ground pepper, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce, along with minced shallots to the meat prepared in the previous step.
Next, mix the meat mixture well!
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Rolling the Meat
Place a sufficient amount of meat filling on the surface of the grapefruit leaves. Next, roll it tightly like a spring roll.
Continue doing this until all the meat filling is used up!
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Grilling the Meat
When the charcoal grill is hot, place the prepared rolls on it and start grilling. Don’t forget to turn them regularly so they don’t burn and cook evenly!
If you notice the grapefruit leaves becoming softer, it means the grapefruit leaf rolls are cooked. You can serve them on a plate and enjoy!
Tip: You can fry the grapefruit leaf rolls in a pan if you don’t have a charcoal stove at home!
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Final Product
The dish of grapefruit leaf rolls is hot and fragrant with the scent of grapefruit leaves, combined with the rich flavor of tender meat rolls that will surely make you love it from the very first taste.
Don’t forget to dip the grapefruit leaf rolls in a little sweet and sour fish sauce or chili sauce, TasteVN guarantees it will be incredibly delicious!
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