Tuesday, 29 December 2009

• Pork Intestine Curry

  My cousin and I cooked some curries together last Sunday. The main dish was pork intestine curry. I've been cooking curry for some days now, so it's not really a new thing anymore, and the steps are almost the same for other kind of curries, like beef or pork, or chicken.
  
  First, you cut up the meat and clean it very well. You have to spend a long time cleaning the pork intestine because... well, it's intestine.. you know. Otherwise, it can taste and smell a little bad. So you wash it many times, scrape up the sides with a knife, etc. do whatever necessary.
  
  Then you put some salt, a pinch of tamarind powder, and fish sauce into the meat, and let it soak up the juices. You don't need to put in more flavors when you're cooking anymore.
  
  While waiting for that, you can mash some dried chili, onions and garlic together. And then you put the pan on the stove, pour some oil in and let it simmer. I only put a tiny bit of oil because I don't like it when food is too oily.
  
  Then you put in the mashed dried chilli, onions and garlic into the hot oil, and stir it occasionally until it starts to smell good. (That's what my cousin told me to do. haha)
  
  

  
  
  

  After that you put the meat in and mix it together with the chilli paste that we has previously put in. Then put a lid on it, and wait for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally so that it won't stick to the pot. Then you put in some water, and then put the lid on.
  
  We had to switch to coal stove right when I was putting in the mixed chili paste because electricity went off.
  
  

  
  
  

  Then you wait until all the water you had put it has evaporated. Then you have to put some more water in again. (That way, the pork meat softens each time you put in more water).
  
  We repeated that step 2 more times, because pork intestine can be very chewy, so needs to be very soft.
  

  
  

  
  The End Result
  

  
  

  
  Pork Intestine Curry
  

  Don't know if that was helpful. haha. Because I've never written Burmese food recipes before.
  

  
  

  
  Dried Fish Curry
  

  I cooked this later in the afternoon. I was going to heat it up the next day and put it in my lunch box. The first meal I have ever cooked for my lunch box. Hooray!
  
  Below are some veggies that my cousin cooked while I was out using internet in the morning.
  

  
  

  
  Kyat Hin Kharr Thee Kyaw (Fried Bitter Gourd)
  (I helped stir it though :P)
  

  
  

  
  

  Hin Nu Nal Kyaw (A Specie of Amaranth)
  

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