Jungle Curry of Pork Spare Ribs

Name: Jungle Curry of Pork Spare Ribs
Yield: for 6-8
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: salt; 1 recipe quantity Jungle Curry Paste; 1 kg/2¼ lb pork spare ribs, cut into 5–8cm/2–3 in lengths; 1.4 litres/ 2½ pt hot water; 115 g/4 oz thinly sliced bamboo shoots; lots of coriander leaves, mint leaves and holy basil leaves, to garnish; 225 g/8 oz pea aubergines; fish sauce, to taste; 8–10 apple aubergines, cut in halves; 8 baby purple aubergines, cut in half lengthwise

Preparation info

for
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

New Wave Asian

By Sri Owen

Published 2002

About

This jungle curry has a good strong flavour and, after some experimenting, I find that spare ribs of pork are just the right meat for it I suggest you choose the American cut for the ribs -that way, there is always plenty of meat on the bones. Chop them into short pieces, 5-8 cm / 2-3 inches long, befo