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Caramelized Pork Rice Bowls with Pickled Carrot

Sweet-savory ground pork over rice with quick pickled carrots and cucumber.

Caramelized Pork Rice Bowls with Pickled Carrot, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
35 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$13.03

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb ground pork
  • 1 1/2 cup jasmine rice
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1/8 cup brown sugar
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 3/4 lb carrots
  • 1 cucumber
  • 4 tbsp white distilled vinegar
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)
  • 1 tbsp sriracha hot sauce(optional)

Method

  1. Cook the jasmine rice according to package directions.

  2. Shred the carrots and toss with the vinegar, a teaspoon of the sugar, and a pinch of salt. Let sit while you cook.

  3. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and brown the pork, breaking it up, 6 minutes.

  4. Add the minced garlic and cook 30 seconds, then stir in the fish sauce and remaining brown sugar.

  5. Simmer 5 minutes, stirring, until the pork is glossy and caramelized at the edges.

  6. Serve over rice with drained pickled carrots, sliced cucumber, cilantro, and a squeeze of sriracha.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$52.13$13.039 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£19.37£4.849 of 9 ingredients
Australia$49.84$12.469 of 9 ingredients
Canada$71.64$17.918 of 9 ingredients
Spain13,52 €3,38 €7 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$537.69$134.427 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$29.14*$7.296 of 9 ingredients
Greece15,00 €*3,75 €6 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٥٥٣٫٦٣ ج.م.‏*‏١٣٨٫٤١ ج.م.‏6 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 25,58*€ 6,406 of 9 ingredients
Germany11,55 €*2,89 €5 of 9 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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