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num pang with pate

Classic Num Pang With Pate, Ground Pork, and Pickled Papaya Salad

Thida Koeut
This is the classic Cambodian num pang sandwich.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Appetizer, dinner, lunch, Main Course, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine Cambodian
Servings 2
Calories 901 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 can Sardines in tomato sauce 155g
  • 1 stalk Spring onions
  • Cilantro to taste
  • ½ pound Ground pork
  • 3 cloves Garlic
  • 1 tspn Soy sauce
  • 1 tspn Fish sauce
  • ½ tspn MSG
  • 1 tspn Sugar
  • 1 cup Spicy papaya side dish You can get the papaya side dish recipe here
  • 1 tbsp Cooking oil
  • ⅓ pound Pork pate*
  • 2 Baguette 6-7 inches
  • Optional ingredients: Thai basil, chili powder, Sriracha sauce

Instructions
 

  • Chop spring onions and set aside.
    Cut spring onions
  • Mince garlic and set aside.
    cut garlic
  • Preheat cooking oil in a wok or frying pan over medium-high heat.
  • Add garlic to the cooking oil and fry until golden-brown, while stirring continuously with a spatula.
    Fry garlic
  • Add ground pork to the frying pan and mix together with the garlic. Continue frying for 7 minutes.
    Add pork to the frying pan
  • Open the can of sardines and add the fish and the tomato sauce to the frying pan, then mix with the ground pork and fry for 5 minutes more.
    Add canned fish to the frying pan
  • Remove the ground pork mix from the frying pan and set aside to cool.
  • Make a deep-enough in the baguette, lengthwise, to accommodate the fillings.
    slice the baguette in half lengthwise
  • Spread the fried ground pork mix over one half of the baguette.
    spread ground pork
  • Place (or spread, depending on consistency) the pate over the fried ground pork mix on the same half of the baguette.
    Add pate to the sandwich
  • Stuff the spicy papaya side dish into the baguette, on top of the meat fillings.
    Add pickled papaya to the sandwich
  • Garnish with cilantro.
    num pang with pate

Notes

*Feel free to use any pate you can find, although the original version uses a luncheon meat that's similar to bologna and SPAM.

Nutrition

Serving: 2gCalories: 901kcalCarbohydrates: 65.1gProtein: 57gFat: 46.1gSaturated Fat: 17.1gCholesterol: 156mgSodium: 1789mgPotassium: 564mgFiber: 5.8gSugar: 19.2gCalcium: 198mgIron: 8mg
Keyword Cambodian sandwich, num pang
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