Pork Wrapped Shrimp Skewers with Vietnamese Green Rice Recipe

Pork Wrapped Shrimp Skewers with VietnaPork Wrapped Shrimp Skewers with Vietnamese Green Rice Recipe (by Chef Leah Cohen, a “Top Chef” alum and chef at Southeast Asian food chef at  Pig & Khao)mese Green Rice Recipe
I love the variety of ethnic foods that my family gets to experience by living in NYC. Recently, I attended a Samsung House event where Chef Leah Cohen prepared a wonderful meal using Samsung kitchen products. A popular “Top Chef” alum, Chef Cohen is currently preparing Southeast Asian food at her Pig & Khao restaurant on NYC’s Lower East Side. She prepared two courses and a dessert for the intimate gathering.

The first course, Shrimp Skewers Wrapped in Pork Coated with Young Green Rice, was delicious and seemed pretty simple to prepare. Asian cooking is very popular, so I asked for the recipe. The great thing is that you don’t have to live in a major metropolitan area like NYC in order to cook Asian foods at home. You can buy fish sauce through Amazon, an affiliate partner. (Leah recommends Squid Brand Fish Sauce.) The Vietnamese young green rice (also called Cốm) is not as easily found though. (Chef Cohen, who was kind enough to share her recipe, mentioned that Rice Krispies provide a similar result as the young green rice…although you won’t get the nice, green color.) In any event, I am sharing the recipe below…enjoy!