Name: Smoked pork with bamboo shoots
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: two 225 g/8 oz cans bamboo shoots in water; 20 g/¾ oz fresh root ginger, grated; 2 bay leaves; 10-12 garlic cloves, crushed; 675 g/1½ lb smoked gammon joint, cut into 2.5cm/1in cubes; 1-3 fresh green chillies, slit open lengthways (deseeded if preferred); Plain Boiled Rice, to serve; 1-3 fresh red chillies, slit open lengthways (deseeded if preferred)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

About

Pork and beef are the most popular meats among the various tribes in Nagaland. The Nagas are extremely hospitable and love to welcome their guests with food, often slaughtering a pig for the occasion. In this recipe, Bas Tenga Pura Gahori, the pork is marinated and would then be smoked over a wood fire - using smoked gammon recreates this flavour. The cooking process is simple, but the result unbelievably good.