Naga Pork Curry
Naga pork curry is a traditional and authentic Naga style pork recipe. This Naga pork recipe is a delicious and exotic pork curry which is easy and simple to prepare. Enjoy it with piping hot steam rice.
Equipment
- Pan
- mortar and pestle
Ingredients
- 500 Grams Pork
- 10-12 Large Dry red chilli
- 2 Inches Ginger
- 10-12 Small Garlic
- 3-4 Tablespoon Bamboo shoot extract (or bamboo shoot)
- 1 Tablespoon Sichuan peppercorn (timur)
- 1-2 Tablespoon Salt
- 300-500 ml Water or as required (adjust as per your required consistency)
Instructions
- Coarsely ground the ginger and garlic just to open the flavor. Keep aside.
- Dry roast the sichuan peppercorns for a minute or two. Coarsely crush it and keep aside.
- Break the dry red chillies and add them to a bowl. Add hot water and soak them covered for 5-10 minutes.
- Drain the water and ground them in mortar and pestle into a paste.
- In a pot add the pork, bamboo shoot water, salt and grounded red chilly paste, stir and mix well and cook on medium heat stirring them frequently for about 5-10 minutes.
- Add enough water covering the meat, cover the pan and cook on medium heat stirring occasionally till the pork is completely cooked. It might take approximately 20-25 minutes.
- Adjust the gravy consistency as per your requirement, add the grounded ginger garlic and crushed peppercorns, give a nice stir and cook for about 2 minutes and take off the heat.
Notes
- You can use bamboo shoot extract or fermented bamboo shoot as well.
- For those who can't source or are not familiar with bamboo shoot, you can use about 2 tomatoes.
- Use freshly ground ginger and garlic for the authentic taste and flavor
- You can make it a dry version or gravy base so adjust the consistency as per your choice.
- You can use add-ons like potato, bitter eggplant and mustard leaves.
- You can make the same version using green chillies.
- Raja mircha lovers can add 1 or 2 king chilli as per your palate for the extra heat.