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Pork Recipes

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13 recipes

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) with sauerkraut, pork and smoked sausage — Poland recipe

🇵🇱PolandAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew)

Poland's national dish — a slow-simmered stew of sauerkraut, fresh cabbage, mixed meats, smoked sausage and dried mushrooms. Deeply savory, rich and smoky. Famous for getting better with each reheating; Poles say the best bigos is on the third day.

210 min450 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Bánh Mì with pork, baguette and daikon — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bánh Mì

Bánh mì (banh mi, bánh mỳ, バインミー, 越南法包) is a Vietnamese sandwich: a crisp baguette filled with fried pork, quick-pickled carrot and daikon (đồ chua), cucumber, cilantro and chili sauce. The pork is sliced thin and marinated with lemongrass and shallot, as for thịt nướng (grilled pork), then seared in a hot pan instead of over charcoal. Active cooking takes about 25 minutes, and the pickles stand for 30 minutes while you prepare the pork.

25 min640 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Egg Roll in a Bowl with pork, cabbage and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Egg Roll in a Bowl

Ground pork with garlic, ginger and shredded cabbage in a soy-sesame sauce — all the filling of a Chinese egg roll, none of the wrapper, done in 20 minutes in one skillet. Low-carb, high protein, better than takeout.

20 min350 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Dan Dan Noodles with noodles, pork and chili oil — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dan Dan Noodles

Wheat noodles dressed in a sauce built from sesame paste, soy sauce, black vinegar, and chili oil, topped with pork mince cooked until slightly crispy and a scattering of crushed peanuts. This is the street food that gave Sichuan cuisine its international reputation. The heat is real, the numbing tingle from Sichuan pepper is the point, and the sauce comes together in the bowl — not in a pan.

35 min590 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Bún Chả with ground pork, pork belly and fish sauce — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Bún Chả

Hanoi's most iconic street-food dish: smoky grilled pork patties (chả băm) and caramelized pork belly slices (chả miếng) submerged in a warm, sweet-sour dipping broth, served alongside cool rice vermicelli, pickled carrot and daikon, and a heap of fresh Vietnamese herbs. The components arrive separately and each diner builds their own bite — a tangle of noodles and herbs dipped into the broth with a piece of pork and pickle, all in one mouthful. Gained international fame when Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain ate it at a Hanoi street stall in 2016. The version that gained that fame is a Hanoi recipe, distinct from the southern bún thịt nướng: no lemongrass in the pork, the sauce served warm not cold, patties alongside sliced belly.

60 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Smashed Gyoza with ground pork, gyoza wrappers and napa or green cabbage — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Smashed Gyoza

A viral riff on pan-fried gyoza that skips the folding entirely. A ball of seasoned pork filling drops into a hot oiled pan, a gyoza wrapper is pressed over the top, and the whole thing is smashed flat with the bottom of a glass. Result: maximum pan contact, a shatteringly crisp wrapper, and a golden-crusted pork patty — all in one piece. No pleating, no steaming step, no technique barrier. Eat open-faced with soy-vinegar dipping sauce, or fold like a taco.

30 min310 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice) with ground beef, ground pork and white rice — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice)

Tefteli are Russian meatballs mixed with rice and braised in a creamy tomato gravy. The rice worked right into the mince pokes out and keeps them soft — which earns them the nickname 'porcupine' or 'hedgehog' meatballs. A light crust from browning holds the shape, the inside stays tender, and the gravy soaks into a side of mashed potatoes or buckwheat.

70 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Banh Cuon (Vietnamese Steamed Rice Rolls) with rice flour, tapioca starch and ground pork — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Breakfast and Brunch

Banh Cuon (Vietnamese Steamed Rice Rolls)

Banh cuon are the silkiest thing in Vietnamese cooking — sheets of rice batter steamed paper-thin, so soft they're almost translucent, wrapped around minced pork and wood ear mushrooms. A northern Vietnamese breakfast staple, they're piled with fried shallots, fresh herbs, bean sprouts, and slices of cha lua, then dipped in nuoc cham, the sweet-sour-salty fish sauce dressing. The tapioca starch in the batter is what gives the wrappers their gentle chew.

75 min430 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce) with silken tofu, doubanjiang and fermented black beans — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce)

Mapo tofu is the definitive Sichuan dish — cubes of silken tofu suspended in a glossy scarlet sauce of fermented chili bean paste and black beans, studded with crisp bits of pork and finished with freshly ground Sichuan peppercorn. The result is má là: the tingling numbness of the peppercorn against the burn of chili. Soft, fiery, and deeply savoury, it's built in minutes and eaten straight over steaming rice.

40 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Golabki Soup (Polish Cabbage Roll Soup) with ground pork, white cabbage and white rice — Poland recipe

🇵🇱PolandMedium

Soups

Golabki Soup (Polish Cabbage Roll Soup)

Golabki soup is the Polish cabbage roll taken apart and cooked in one pot. Ground pork, cabbage, rice and tomato give the same taste as the rolls, with no leaves to blanch and nothing to wrap. One hour instead of three.

60 min310 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Georgian Khinkali with wheat flour, ground beef and ground pork — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Georgian Khinkali

Khinkali are large Georgian dumplings built to hold seasoned meat and its own hot broth. The dough must be sturdy enough to pleat without tearing, yet thin enough to eat around the thick top knot. They are boiled, showered with black pepper and eaten by hand while the broth is still hot.

150 min610 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Pork and Cabbage Dumplings (Chinese Jiaozi) with all purpose flour, ground pork and Napa cabbage — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Pork and Cabbage Dumplings (Chinese Jiaozi)

These northern Chinese jiaozi have thin, pleasantly chewy skins and a juicy pork filling threaded with sweet Napa cabbage. Salting and squeezing the cabbage keeps the filling moist without flooding the wrappers. Make them for Lunar New Year, or settle in for an unhurried weekend folding session.

120 min472 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

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fish sauce soy sauce ground beef white rice sauerkraut baguette daikon carrot cilantro garlic peanuts pork belly