Another Rick Stein recipe and a request from my sister to make it for her when she came visiting recently. Khmer Pork, Coconut & Pineapple Curry‘s a savoury sweet dish; savoury coz it’s a curry and sweet coz ripe pineapple’s added to it. An interesting but at the same time delish curry..

Recipe from Rick Stein’s “Far Eastern Odyssey”

Ingredients:

  • 800g lean boneless pork shoulder
  • 1 small pineapple or 200g prepared fresh pineapple cubes
  • 4 small round green Thai aubergine or 100g purple aubergines
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 40g fresh coconut, grated
  • 300ml coconut milk
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tsp palm sugar (or sugarcane sugar)
  • 1 tbsp tamarind water
  • leaves from 1 small bunch of Thai sweet basil

Ingredients for Curry Paste (kroeung):

  • 25g peeled galangal, roughly chopped
  • 1 tsp ground turmeric or 25g fresh turmeric, roughly chopped
  • 20g garlic, roughly chopped
  • 4 fat lemongrass stalks, core chopped
  • 50g shallots, roughly chopped
  • 2 kaffir lime leaves, finely shredded
  • 1 strip pared lime zest (from a kaffir lime, if available)
  • 1 tsp Cambodian or Thai shrimp paste
  • 1 medium hot red or green chili, chopped

timetable

recipe

    Serves 4
    Prep time 30 mins
    Cook time 75 mins
    Total time 105 mins
105mins
total time

Preparation:

  1. Pound or blend all curry paste ingredients. Add 1-2 tbsp water (I used 2 tbsp vegetable oil i/o water) to get paste moving, if necessary.
  2. Cut pork into 2.5-3cm pcs.  If necessary, peel pineapple, cut it into 4 wedges lengthways, slice away core and cut fruit into chunks.  Cut round green aubergines into wedges or purple aubergines into pieces similar in size to pineapple.
  3. Heat 2 tbsp oil in a wide-based pan or wok, add half of pork pcs and brown lightly on all sides. Set aside on a plate and repeat remainder.
  4. Add remaining oil and curry paste to pan or wok and fry gently over a medium heat for 2-3 mins till it starts to smell aromatic.  Return pork and to pan with 300ml water, part-cover and leave to simmer gently for 1 hr.
  5. Uncover, add grated coconut, pineapple, aubergines and coconut milk and simmer with lid off for a further 10 mins.
  6. Add fish sauce, sugar and tamarind juice, then stir in basil.  Season to taste with salt and serve.



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