Burmese-style Pork

Name: Burmese-style Pork
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Myanmar (Burma)
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon turmeric powder; 8 shallots, peeled; 2 fresh red chiles, finely chopped; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 12 garlic cloves, peeled; 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar; 3 lb 5 oz/1.5 kg pork, cubed; 1 red onion, peeled; 3 tablespoons peanut oil; 1 teaspoon shrimp paste; ½ inch/1 cm piece of fresh gingerroot, peeled

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's Great Curries

By Keith Floyd

Published 2004

About

The sesame and peanut oils add a lovely flavor to this dish while the turmeric provides color.

Ingredients

3 lb 5 oz/1.5 kg pork, cubed
1

Myanmar (Burma)
Main course
Spicy

Method

Put the onion, garlic, ginger, shallots, and vinegar into a food processor and whiz together. Transfer to a bowl and mix in the pork. Let marinate in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.

When the pork has marinated, take out the meat, reserving the marinade. Heat the sesame oil and 2 tablespoons