Pepperized Pork

Ingredient:

Items to roast:

• 2 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 inch cinnamon stick
• 2 1/2 tbsp whole black pepper
• 10 whole cloves
• 1 green cardamom

Marinating items:

• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 tbsp cooking oil*
• Salt as desired

Cooking items:

• 750 gms pork (cut into pieces as per your desire)
• 2-3 tbsp fresh ginger garlic paste
• 4 green chilly finely slit
• 3 medium sized red onions cut into big cubes and then separated individually
• 1 tsp kashmiri chilly powder*
• 2 tbsp dark soya sauce
• 3-4 tsp finely chopped fresh coriander
• 2 tbsp cooking oil

Direction:

1. Dry roast all items mentioned under items to roast in a pan;
2. Once cooled, powder the above roasted items;
3. Now add the powdered ingredients with the items mentioned under marinating items to the meat and mix well;
4. Set aside the marinated meat for 1 hour or more if possible*;
5. After an hour, cook the marinated meat till the meat is well done;
6. Remove the meat pan from fire and transfer majority of the gravy from the meat pan into a bowl and keep it aside;
7. In a pan, heat cooking oil and add onion and green chilly and fry for 2-3 minutes;
8. Now add ginger-garlic paste, kashmiri chilly powder, dark soya sauce and add the meat gravy so that the onion gets cooked and the gravy is evaporated. Cook well for 3-4 minutes on medium flame stirring occasionally to ensure that it does not stick to the bottom of the pan;
9. Add the meat and cooked for another 2-3 minutes till the mixture is well heated;
10. Add chopped coriander, stir all the mixture and remove from fire.

You can serve this dish with white bread, steam rice, dosa or idli.

*Tips:

• I used grapeseed oil for cooking;
• The more you keep the meat aside to marinate the better;
• You can use any chilly powder if you don’t have kashmiri chilly powder