Pork and transparent vermicelli

Name: Pork and transparent vermicelli (Semur Babi)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 3 green chillis or freshly ground black pepper; 1 piece of ginger or 1 tsp ground ginger; 500 g (1¼ lb) sliced pork; 4 or 5 tbs dark soya sauce; 1 tbs oil; 60 g (2 oz) vermicelli; a bunch of spring onions; 3 cloves garlic; 3 ripe tomatoes

Semur Babi

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Use thinly sliced pork for this dish, preferably leg—either raw or cold roast pork. The vermicelli is the transparent kind, made from green bean starch, that is common in Japan and all over south-east Asia. In Indonesia we call it by its Chinese name, so-un.

Ingredients

500 g (1¼ lb) sliced pork
a bunch of spring onions

Asia
Indonesia
South East Asia
Noodles
Spicy

Method

Clean and cut the spring onions into pieces about 2 cm (nearly 1″) long. Seed the chillis and cut into very fine sticks, and cut the ginger in the same way. Peel and seed the tomatoes, then chop them. Peel the garlic and slice it thinly. Soak the vermicelli in cold water for 30 minutes, then drain.