Name: Balinese-Style Banana Leaf–Wrapped Pork Chops
Ingredients: 5 cloves garlic, chopped; 2 thumb-size pieces fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped; 3 large shallots, chopped; 2-inch (5-cm) piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped; 2 jalapeño or serrano chiles, chopped; 4 fresh kaffir lime leaves, minced; 2 stalks lemongrass, tops and tough outer leaves removed, chopped; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon fish sauce; 3 tablespoons grated unsweetened coconut; Freshly ground black pepper; 1 large piece of banana leaf, rinsed, thawed if frozen; 4 thick-cut bone-in pork chops; Lime wedges

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Slow Cook Modern

By Liana Krissoff

Published 2017

About

On a whim a few years ago I bought a three-author cookbook published in the UK with the glorious title Best-Ever Cooking of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia & the Philippines: Ingredients, Techniques, Traditions, & All the Popular Local Dishes. And they aren’t kidding. It’s an absolutely insane book: step-by-step photographs of every single dish (all 340 of them—how’d they do that?), no-holds-barred ingredients lists (terasi and belacan, milkfish and mutton, sour carambola gree