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This is an authentic recipe from our team in Cambodia, featured in our Cambodia Recipe Box. The ingredients labeled with a * below are hard-to-find ingredients that we’ve sourced from Cambodia and are all included in our recipe box which is available for shipping throughout the USA and China. For more information and to purchase online, click here.
This is a homemade favorite in Cambodia, where pre-stuffed tomatoes (and bitter gourd) are sold in the ready-meals section of supermarkets, alongside stir-fries and sour soups. Some families like to serve these up in a clear broth, where the tomatoes come undone and the meatballs float on their own. It’s always served with rice.
Recipe Notes:
When choosing tomatoes, large round cooking tomatoes are best. Beefeater is a bad choice because it’s not a cooking tomato and will just turn to a tasteless pulp. Better Boy tomatoes work great as well as firm tomatoes on the vine.
Ingredients
Items marked with a * are included in our Cambodia Recipe Box.
For the tomatoes:
8 tomatoes (see notes)
250g / 9oz ground pork
1 small onion, finely diced
3 green onion sprigs, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, finely minced
1cm ginger, finely minced
1 egg
1 Tbsp fish sauce*
1 Tbsp lemongrass powder*
1 Tbsp galangal powder*
2 tsp palm sugar*
Pepper to taste
Pinch of salt
For the sauce:
Tomato hearts, from the 8 tomatoes above
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp fish sauce*
2 tsp rice flour*
Directions
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