Pork Bahn Mi

A bahn mi is a popular Vietnamese style sandwich made a crusty baguette and loaded up with meat, vegetables and a mayonnaise based sauce. It is also usually spicy, but not always. This recipe is for a flavorful Pork Bahn Mi that has deliciously marinated lemongrass roasted pork, a crunchy citrus daikon slaw and a spicy mayo on a grilled baguette.

One way to make this sandwich feel more authentic is to get the pork sliced really thin. The best way to do that is to use a meat slicer. I know these can get spendy but they can be used for some many things, like making your own lunch meat or cutting cheeses to the thickness you want. I wanted one for years but didn’t get one because I wasn’t sure that I would use it enough to make it worth taking up space in my cupboard. But I use it pretty regularly and love it. One note about slicing the meat for this sandwich – slice lengthwise, so that you get longer pieces. It just makes it easier to eat.

For this slaw, if you cannot find daikon radish (its a long round white radish) you can replace with the smaller red radish. It will change the flavor slightly, but will still be good. Not all groceries carry daikon, you might find it in your Asian Market as well. I like to use a cheese grater to shred the cabbage, carrots and daikon. It helps for it to all come together nicely when they are all roughly the same size. The zest of the lemon adds such a great punch of citrus flavor.

This is going to be a pretty massive entree sandwich. You can serve it with a side of fries or tots or potato chips, but you may not really need anything along with it. The construction of this sandwich is pretty important, specifically with the grilling of the bread. It is a fairly “wet” sandwich, so when you toast or grill the bread, you get an extra layer of “protection” from the sandwich falling apart while you are trying to eat it.

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Pork Bahn Mi

A delicious lemongrass marinated pork sandwich loaded up with a crunchy daikon slaw and spicy mayo

Course Dinner, Main Course, Sandwich

Cuisine American, Asian, Vietnamese

Keyword baguette, baked pork chops, daikon, daikon slaw, homemade spicy mayo, jalapeno, lemongrass, roasted pork, spicy mayo

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Marinating Time 4 hours hours

Servings 6

Ingredients

• 6 6 inch French Baguette
• 1 Jalapeno sliced
• 1 English Cucumber cut in half and then thinly slice lengthwise
• ¾ cup Mayonnasie
• ½ cup Sriracha
• Cooking Spray

For the Pork

• 3 lb Pork Roast
• 2 tbsp Lemongrass minced
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 2 tbsp Rice Vinegar
• 1 tbsp Grated Ginger
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp White Pepper

For the Daikon Slaw

• 1 cup Shredded Carrots
• 1 cup Shredded Cabbage
• 1 Lemon juice and zest
• 1 cup Shredded Daikon Radish
• ½ Red Onion thinly sliced
• ½ cup Fresh Cilantro chopped
• ¼ cup Oil
• ¼ cup Rice Vinegar
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Pepper
• 1 tsp Ground Ginger

Instructions

• Add all ingredients for the pork marinade to a gallon zipper bag and combine. Add pork roast and seal bag. Place in refrigerator to marinate for 4 hours (up to 24hours).
• Preheat over to 400degF.
• Place marinated pork on a baking rack on a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Bake in oven for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest for at least 10 minutes before thinly (a meat slicer works great for this).
• In a bowl, combine ingredients for the daikon slaw. Thoroughly mix together then cover and place in refrigerator until ready to build the sandwiches.
• In another smaller bowl, add mayonnaise and sriracha and mix thoroughly. If you have a squeeze bottle, add spicy mayo to bottle and place in refrigerator until ready to make sandwiches.
• Over medium high heat, heat up grill pan or frying pan. Cut each baguette in half and spray each side with cooking spray. Grill each piece of bread and set aside.
• Add 5-6 slices of pork to bottom bread, add 4-5 slices of cucumber, then a portion of slaw, drizzle with spicy mayo, a few jalapenos slices and place top bread on. Use two long toothpicks then slice in half.