Goan Rich Pork Stew with Vegetables

Along with vindaloo, baffat comes from the Portuguese-influenced cooking of Goa. Baffat is a dry, hot-sour dish of meat and vegetables thickened with peanuts and roasted chickpeas and sometimes coconut. This is my mother’s version with no changes, except that the meat is treated in a way that renders out as much fat as possible before cooking.

Roasted chickpeas are sold at most health food stores. At Indian groceries, ask for husked channa or gram.

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