This pork dip is basically a homemade peanut sauce recipe with pork! Think of this as an amazingly addictive pork peanut sauce dip that will always disappear first!
So...I took this peanut sauce recipe and made a Thai peanut sauce dip with pork. I've been making this for years and my family scarfs this peanut sauce recipe with pork right up. Sometimes I make it for dinner and we make lettuce wraps with it. I serve rice on the side and a smashed cucumber salad. Everyone is happy. But one great way to please all is to use this as dip. It's new and addicting and has no cheese or dairy, which is a change from most dips I know of.
Go ahead. Look up the word dip. I've never realized just how many meanings there are for the word. My favorite from the Urban Dictionary goes like this: "Dip - leave abruptly. To get the hell out of somewhere." In this case at least, with this recipe, it would go something like this: "Quit being a dip. If you don't put that damn dip in front of me, I'm going to dip right out of here."
And with good reason, because this is damn good dip. You are going to want to dip your dippers into this dip and hoard this mess of a dip where it only belongs to you and just you. This is a totally addicting dip. I kid you not. Sometimes I fool myself and serve it with lettuce whereupon it becomes a peanut sauce dip recipe with pork that can be used in lettuce wraps and then served for dinner. After all, dips just aren't for dipping anymore. You know that, right?
It seems we've made it through chili week on the Blogosphere. Every other blog I've read is doing the chili. I guess I'm with the in crowd. Of course everyone who wasn't, seems to be doing dips. Ooo eee! I'm doing both, just to make it clear. Yes, that season of the year is upon us. The time of crock pots and chili and dips. Yeah, Some might say Super Bowl is finally here, but being the non football fanatic that I am, I scream "Football season is almost over!".
But being the dip I am, at least when it comes to football, you ought to know that I'm not a dip, when it comes to dips. I know a good dip when I see one and this peanut sauce dip is one of them. Yes, it is a peanut sauce recipe with pork. No sour cream or cream cheese, though it does have Thai ingredients and I love Thai food. You could also say that it has Vietnamese ingredients and I love Vietnamese. I guess it's kind of AC/DC. Just like the dip or lettuce wrap thing; what ever way floats your boat! You can serve it with rice crackers or veggies like carrots, cucumber rounds and roasted sweet potato slices. Of course, it also tastes great over rice or noodles. I made scallion Chinese flat bread which made a great dipper. Remember, versatile is this dip's middle name!
I'm placing a bet that you are going to love this dip. I love artichoke dip and I love onion dip. But here and there it's nice to switch things up a bit. Go ahead. Don't be a dip. Just make this dip!
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Recipe
Thai Pork Dip or Don't Be a Dip
- Prep Time: 20 Minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 4-8 Servings 1x
Description
This pork dip is basically a homemade peanut sauce recipe with pork! Think of this as an amazingly addictive pork peanut sauce dip that will always disappear first!
Ingredients
1 lb ground pork or turkey or chicken
1 T minced or crushed garlic
2 T finely chopped lemon grass or lemon grass in a tube
½ can of coconut milk (If dip sits and becomes to thick, slowly stir in the other half)
2 T peanut butter
2 T fish sauce
2 T brown sugar
1 T Sriracha
1 T chopped cilantro
Garnish with chopped peanuts, some cilantro and some shredded coconut if you'd like.
Serve with rice crackers, dippers or in lettuce leaves.
Instructions
In a skillet cook pork or turkey until brown.
Stir in garlic and lemon grass and cook for another 2 minutes.
Stir in coconut milk, peanut butter, fish sauce, brown sugar, and Sriracha.
Cook and stir until thickened over medium high heat about 5-10 minutes. Stir in cilantro before serving.
Garnish and serve with your favorite dippers and sippers!
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Kyomm (Vow. Move. Live.) says
sounds yummy and with all those ways to use it.. am going to have to give this a go.. thanks for sharing
Abbe Odenwalder says
This is good a zillion ways! Thanks, Laura!
Abbe Odenwalder says
It is Denise! Give it a go!
sprinklesandsauce says
Good looking dip! Funny urban dictionary meaning!
Lea Ann (Cooking On The Ranch) says
What a very interesting recipe and it sounds delicious. And being from Denver, I really appreciate the comment above me. Go Broncos, we're crazed here in Denver. Pinning this one.
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
I will not be a dipshit and forget to make this dip. 🙂
Abbe Odenwalder says
Very clever, Maureen! Growing up, we kind of overused that word, did we not? Forgot about it!
Guru Uru says
This dip is so healthy and looks delicious 😀
Cheers
CCU
Shelley @ Two Healthy Kitchens says
This looks fantastic! What a wonderful change of pace - and yes, perfect for the Super Bowl! I absolutely love the city of Seattle, but I've gotta cheer for Peyton on this one! Thanks for the awesome recipe! 😀
Mary Callan says
What a delicious dip - wonderful ingredients - and such a healthy way of serving it:)
Mary x
Laura Dembowski says
Love the idea of serving this in lettuce wraps. Or with the flatbread. Yum!
Liz Berg says
Your dip sounds terrific, Abbe! Go Broncos!!!
Abbe Odenwalder says
That's the spirit, Liz! I'm even wearing orange today!
Paula @ Vintage Kitchen Notes says
A dip without cheese, that's so interesting Abbe! I would use it over pasta too, because I put everything on pasta, and this recipe would really work!
Abbe Odenwalder says
I'm a pasta nut, Paula. And you are right. I could eat most anything on pasta!
Nazneen Hamilton says
Dip, dip or dip, this is lovely! You had me at peanut butter, sriracha, sugar, coconut milk......yummy!!
Abbe Odenwalder says
The above sound so good, don't they, Nazneen? It is a good change from a cheese or sour cream dip! Thanks!
Bam's Kitchen says
Pork dip for the men? They will love it! Put it in a lettuce wrap and all the girls will be swooping over this dip. Great Thai flavours and that will go well here at my house.
Abbe Odenwalder says
You got that right, Bam! Enjoy it!
Sharon D says
Humorous write-up, Abbe! I sure learned something about the word "dip" today..lol ..The dip looks fantastic, by the way ♥ ^.^
Abbe Odenwalder says
Thanks Sharon! Lots of dip today!
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert says
Well Abbe you rule in the dip posts! It was super-dip-licious to read and probably even better to dip and eat. Love Thai and all those flavors. It is a must try (I would like the lettuce wrap) and absolutely go Broncos! I lived in Denver when John Elway first wore his orange crush uniform. And, I have been a fan of Peyton Manning since he work orange in Tennessee, when I lived there. Yeah!
Abbe Odenwalder says
You got it Tricia! Go Broncos! Thanks!
Anna and Liz Recipes says
Abbe never had anything like this, but you got my curiosity going here, sounds really amazing!
Abbe Odenwalder says
Truly, Anna and Liz-this rocks!
Denise Browning@From Brazil To You says
Dip or no dip, this looks amazing!!!!!!!! What a great recipe, Abbe!
Shirley Tay says
Coconut & Peanuts do go hand in hand, don't they? Would love to dig into the dip!
Abbe Odenwalder says
You are so right Shirley. I'll bet coconut and peanuts there are kind of like ketchup and mustard here!
shannon weber says
so...pork dip? you just won super bowl food this year. i mean, the dudes will go WILD FOR SOMETHING CALLED PORK DIP. It sounds delicious, too: i can see this working disguised as lettuce wraps; i would totally eat it either way. 🙂
oh! and there's one more way you can use dip: it's probably a derivation of dipping out of somewhere, but it's "doin' the dip." if you're "doin' the dip," it means that someone has spotted you in a place/situation you should not be, and you have also spotted them. instead of acting like a normal person and saying hello or acknowledging their presence, you get nervous and "do the dip," which means you act like you didn't see the person and try to get away undetected. "Doin' the dip," ladies and gentlemen. I learned that by watching Jersey Shore YES. I. DID.
Abbe Odenwalder says
So now I have to watch Jersey Shore? Wow! So many meanings for dip! Thanks for letting me know, Shannon. We are finally getting to the last season of Breaking Bad and now I have to buy it on Net Flicks to see it!
Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl says
I'm going to start using the word dip when I'm leaving somewhere, "Gotta dip". I like how that sounds. This looks great, yum yum. Ok, dipping on out now!
Abbe Odenwalder says
Pamela-I likes that interpretation, too! Always have something to remember! And now-go dip!
Angie Schneider says
That looks more like a spaghetti sauce to me...which means GOOD!
Have a great day!
Angie
Abbe Odenwalder says
Have to admit that it would be great over pasta! Thanks, Angie!
Barb | Creative Culinary says
I just want a nickel for every time you wrote dip. And, well, some of THIS dip. You dip good! 🙂
Abbe Odenwalder says
Thanks Barb!. I wish I could have a nickel, too!
Kitchen Riffs says
Yup, we food bloggers are definitely calendar driven. And when the calendar says the Super Bowl cometh, then so do recipes for dips and chili. 😉 This is a particularly nice one -- loads of zing to it. Just the thing to help me get in touch with my inner dip! Fun post -- thanks.
Abbe Odenwalder says
So true, John! And this is a great dip. Take that inner dip and dip away!
Ansh| Spiceroots says
That is one dipilicious dip ! I can see it being dipped into 😀
Abbe Odenwalder says
I like that Ansh! Dipilicious! Great word!