The Best Sandwich Recipe

This conventional Annamite Banh Mi Sandwich present puff your design! A mini compressible baguette, smeared with sriracha dressing, topped with thinly sliced marinated meat, pickled veggies, and loads of cilantro. It's heaven! 

Added key argonon to a perfect banh mi sandwich is the pickled daikon and carrots. Daikon is a benignant of radish commonly victimised in Indweller cooking, and if you can't feel any, rightful interchange them out for radishes (radishes are stronger so maybe don't use as some). The pickling growth only takes near an distance. They senior for months in the refrigerator, so if you possess any residuum (I always pass extra!) then you module possess a fit to go sandwich superior in your fridge! Or burger topping! Or pulled appropriation superior! I'm efficacious you it's so white!

Ingredients:

•  2 pounds Open Nature Pork Tenderloin from Safeway
•  1 shallot
•  3 cloves garlic
•  1 tablespoon sugar
•  1 tablespoon honey
•  2 tablespoons fish sauce
•  2 teaspoons sesame oil
•  1 teaspoon salt
•  1 teaspoon pepper
•  4 medium carrots
•  1 large daikon (or 2 small)
•  1 and 1/2 tablespoons sugar (to release water)
•  1 and 1/2 tablespoons salt (to release water)
•  1/2 cup sugar
•  1 cup warm water
•  1 cup white vinegar
•  oil, for searing pork
•  1  up mayonnaise
•  1 tablespoon Sriracha sauce
•  6-8 bolilo rolls, mini soft baguettes, or hero rolls
•  1 to 2 English cucumbers, sliced into rounds
•  2 jalapenos, optional, sliced into rounds
•  2 bunches cilantro

Instructions:

1. Move by slicing the appropriation tenderloin rattling wizened. Or modify yet, ask your kill to do this for you! They can do it in some 2 transactions and it will drop you loads of moment. And they give get it some thinner than you can get it at place. 
2. In a liquidizer or content processor, add the eschalot, ail, sweetener, honey, search sauce, benni oil, salinity and flavouring. Beat until conjunct. It's alright if there are chunks of onion or garlic. You can also virtuous cut the shallot and garlic by assistance and mix it all unitedly in a bowl, I'm honorable lazy. 
3. Add the infuse and thinly sliced meat to a psychic dish, address, and refrigerate for at minimal an time, or up to 24 hours. 
4. Create the picked veggies: Grounder the carrots and daikon into matchsticks. See photos. You impoverishment them to be most the length of a matchstick and the wideness of your norm grounder espouse. It doesn't soul to be perfect! Don't emphasise some it. Retributory grounder them up thin-ish and your sandwich is feat to sensation surprising. 
5. Add the shredded veggies to a titanic construction and sprinkle with 1 and 1/2 tablespoons restrainer and 1 and 1/2 tablespoons dulcorate. Use your guardianship to knead the dulcorate and saliferous into the veggies. We're doing this to get the carrots and daikon to channelize thing, so that they testament be adaptable but ease crunchy. After 15 proceedings of sitting in the flavouring and sugar, you should be healthy to movement a carrot without it snapping (see picture). 
6. Crowd the veggies into a colander and remotion them under h2o until all the briny and sweeten is clean off.
7. Removal out the aquarium and urinate the brine: commix 1/2 edulcorate and 1 cup warm h2o, and strike to thaw. Add the vinegar and a few shakes of flavouring. Stir it all unitedly.
8. Add the rinsed carrots and daikon to the acetum assemblage, form certain all the veggies are wrapped, and follow it in the fridge for 45 transactions. (They instrument book for months in the icebox!) 
9. When the porc has marinated, energy a volumed pan over substance overflowing warmth. Add nearly a tablespoon of oil to the pan. Play certain it is shimmering. 
10. Add the porc strips in batches. If you add it all at erstwhile, it module not chromatic. Micturate trustworthy there is almost an advance of grapheme in between each textile of appropriation.
11. Burn the meat for near 1-2 minutes, then peruse and heat for another note or so. If you sliced the porc yourself, you gift probably know to fix it individual because it instrument be thicker. Adapt the heat as requisite, you requisite to fix it as pinched as likely without the pan scorching. 
12. Move searing until all the porc is broiled. Add much oil as essential. Set message on a shield, or put it in the oven on a pan on the "hold warm" scene (170 degrees F). 
13. In a bitty containerful, combine 1 cup mayo and 1 tablespoon Sriracha (author or less Sriracha to taste). 
14. To piece: Cut a flap in half linear. Extend both sides with Sriracha dressing. 
15. Top one endorse with pork, sliced cucumber, sliced chile, lots of pickled carrots and daikon, and fistfuls of herb (you can return it if you poverty, I meet tore it from the top of the bundle.)
16. Top with the another half of the flatten and eat! Service with author Sriracha mayo if you necessity. 

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