Beef skewers filled with sausages

Beef skewers filled with sausages

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Beef meatballs filled with Chinese sausage, liver, and bacon, grilled on skewers and sprinkled with peanuts and chopped chives oil.

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These Vietnamese meatballs contain a filling of sausage, pork liver, and bacon. Once grilled, they are served with peanut sauce and cilantro oil.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Total45 min
  • DifficultyMedium
  • CostModerate
  • Cooking methodbarbecue
  • Estimated cost$14.46 $3.62 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 7, 2026.

Ingredients

4 people
  • $9.27
  • $0.14
  • $0.00
  • $0.02
  • $1.51
  • $1.74
  • $1.23
  • $0.38
  • $0.17

Prices from US supermarkets for 6 of 9 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Combine the ground beef with the nuoc-mâm, sugar, salt, and glutamate, then form approximately 7 meatballs. ≈ 10 min
  2. Flatten a meatball, place 2 pieces of sausage, liver, and bacon on top, close it up, and roll it into a ball, then skewer it. ≈ 10 min
  3. When serving, cook until the meatballs are golden brown on all sides, remove the skewers, and arrange on a serving dish.
  4. Sprinkle with peanuts, then coat with a ciboule-flavored oil paint. ≈ 2 min
  5. Serve with fish sauce or nuoc-mam, seasoned to your liking, plain or wrapped in a rice pancake with fresh herbs. ≈ 2 min

The bill

Beef skewers filled with sausages

  • 450 g of ground beef$9.27
  • 1 tablespoon of fish sauce$0.14
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar$0.00
  • ½ cup of salt$0.02
  • 1 Chinese sausage (lap cheong), cut into approximately 14 slices$1.51
  • 115 g of pork liver, cut into sausage-like pieces$1.74
  • Pork fat (quickly blanched, cut like a sausage)$1.23
  • grilled and crushed peanuts$0.38
  • oil paint by Ciboule$0.17

Total$14.46

that's $3.62 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 450 g of ground beef
  • 1 tablespoon of fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • ½ cup of salt
  • ½ cup of glutamate
  • 1 Chinese sausage (lap cheong), cut into approximately 14 slices
  • 115 g of pork liver, cut into sausage-like pieces
  • Pork fat (quickly blanched, cut like a sausage)
  • grilled and crushed peanuts
  • oil paint by Ciboule
  • wooden carvings

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