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Marinated Pork steaks with Nam Jim dressing, fast dinner

Marinated Pork Steaks with Nam Jim make a delicious and easy Thai inspired dinner that you can make in 30 minutes
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course dinner, Dressings, Gluten free, Maincourse
Cuisine Australian, Thai
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Pork steaks

  • 40 ml olive oil 2 Tablsp
  • 1 crushed garlic clove
  • 5 ml fish sauce 1tsp teaspoon
  • 4 Pork Loin steaks nice and thick

Nam Jim dressing

  • 125 ml lemon juice 1/2 cup
  • 50 gm sugar, white 3 1/2 Tabsp
  • 15 ml fish sauce 1/2 Tblsp
  • 2 ea coriander root with some stem cleaned, chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 1 small chilli *optional chopped
  • 1 teaspoon ginger sliced* optioanal

Salad

  • 1 bag salad mix 400gm (Asian salad mix or fine-cut slaw) /14.10 oz
  • 1 bunch coriander, picked from the stems
  • 1/4 red onion, sliced *optional
  • 1 bunch mint, picked optional*
  • 12 cherry tomatoes 1/2'd * optional

Steamed rice

  • 1 cup Jasmine rice any size cup, full
  • 1 1/4 cup water same cup as yiou used for the rice
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions
 

Pork Steaks

  • Put the Pork steaks into a bowl with the oil and garlic, fish sauce. Turn them over to coat and set aside 5 minutes up to 30 minutes

Salad and Nam Jim Dressing

  • Nam Jim is often made by crushing all the ingredients together in a food processor or in a pestle and mortar then all of the ingredients used. For this dressing though I just roughly chop all of the ingredients and strain them out later
    Put the lemon juice, sugar and fish sauce into the bowl and stir well to dissolve. Taste the sauce. It should have a good balance of lemon, sugar, and salt. Adjust if necessary.
    Clean the coriander roots of any dirt. Chop the garlic, ginger, coriander roots and chilli. Put all into the lemon juice mixture. Set aside.
    Strain the dressing before using

Steamed rice

  • Put the rice into a bowl and add cold water. Stir well then pour into a drainer and shake to get rid of any extra water. This just takes a little bit of the starch out of the rice.
  • Put the rice, salt and cold water into the pot and bring up to a boil
  • As soon as it boils, stir, put on the lid and turn it to the very lowest setting. ( If you have a ceramic cooktop you probably should turn it off). Leave on the stove without opening the lid for 12 to 15. After this open the lid and stir. Put the lid back on and set aside.
    This will make enough rice for 4 but if you love rice and you want more than a spoonful then double this recipe

Grilled the Pork Steaks

  • This is the perfect way to cook a Pork steak. This method is taken from the Australian Pork website. Follow for the perfect steak
  • For 2cm thick steaks use our 6-2-2 method: Preheat a pan, griddle pan or BBQ plate just like you would for any other steak. Shake off any excess marinade. Cook it on one side without turning for 6 minutes. Turn it over once and allow it to cook for 2 more minutes. This method will cook the steak to just white.  If you prefer a little bit of pink just reduce the cooking time. If your steak is thicker than 2cm, adjust the cooking time on the second side.
    Take the steak straight out of the pan without flipping over and place on a plate to rest for two minutes. That allows the juices to settle and it will be lovely and tender. That’s how simple it is: 6 minutes on one side, 2 minutes on the other and 2 minutes to rest = the 10 minute pork steak!
  • Toss the salad, herbs, onion and tomatoes together pouring over the dressing and tossing well. Put a little rice on each plate, top with a Pork steak, and finish with the salad on top and any dressing in the bottom of the bowl onto each plate. Garnish with extra coriander

Notes

I have added ginger to this Nam Jim. This isn't traditional but I like it
Add as much or as little chilli as you like
You can also use precooked rice here too, if you like it  
Visit Australian Pork for more hints on cooking Pork steaks
( disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Australian Pork)
https://www.pork.com.au/cook-pork-steak/
 
Keyword 6-2-2, australian pork, Dinner, gluten free, pork steaks