Dohneiiong
Dohneiiong is a pork dish from Meghalaya which is one of the North East State of India. Dohneiiong is the very famous Khasi black sesame pork served on different occasions. It is pork cooked with black sesame seeds as the hero ingredient.
Ingredients
- 300 grams Pork
- 4 tablespoon Black Sesame Seeds
- 10 pieces Dry Red Chillies
- 1 large Onion chopped
- 2 teaspoon Ginger Garlic paste
- 2 large Green Chilly slit
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 3 tablespoon Mustard Oil
- 1 tablespoon Salt or as per taste
- 2 cups Water or as required
Instructions
- In a bowl add the broken dry red chillies, hot water, cover the bowl and let the chilly soak in the hot water while you make the other ingredients ready. Drain the water and grind the chillies into a paste.
- In a saucepan dry roast the black sesame seeds till it starts to crackle. Turn off and grind them into fine powder or you can keep it coarsely pounded.
- In a pressure cooker add the pork, salt to taste and some water and pressure cook the pork for about 10 minutes or till the pork is cooked. It will not take more water to cook the pork so add less water accordingly.
- In a pot heat the mustard oil till smoking hot. Add onion, green chillies, ginger garlic paste and saute till the onion starts to brown
- Add the chilly paste, turmeric powder, salt to taste and saute for about 2 minutes.
- Add the cooked pork, mix well, cover the pot and cook for about 10 minutes in medium heat stirring it occasionally.
- Add the sesame powder, stir and mix them well together nicely.
- Add the left over pork stock if any or you can sprinkle little water and cook for 5 to 10 minutes and take off the heat.
Notes
- Fresh pork is used for making this recipe.
- Traditionally mustard oil is used but if it is not available you can replace with other cooking oil.
- Red chilly is optional and can be adjusted as per your preference.
- You can add more water and adjust the gravy consistency as per your palate.