Hot pork curry with pumpkin
May 2, 2008
I know that you can’t distinguish the slices of pork from the slices of pumpkin but they are both there *lol* I have to admit that I made the sauce too thick - see that oil? most of it was from the coconut milk. This simple recipe was found from one of my Thai cookbooks. Handy whenever I couldn’t come up of something for dinner.
What you need:
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1-2 tbsp red curry paste (commercial)
- 500g lean pork but into bite size
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 350g butternut squash, cute into bite size
- kaffir lime leaves, 6
- 1/4 cup coconut cream (thicker than the first)
- 1tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- for extra thin sliced red chilies
Heat the oil in a wok, add curry paste and stir for about a minute. Add pork and stir fry over medium-high heat until golden brown. Add coconut milk, water, pumpkin and kaffir leaves, reduce heat to low leaves and simmer for 5-10 minutes. This really depends on the pork cut that you will be using so I suggest not to leave it while simmering, try to find out if your pork is cooking well. Lean pork is quite easy to over cook resulting to hardening of the meat. According to the book, the coconut cream is the last to be added but I also added it together with the milk (multi tasking that’s why) but if you want a thinner sauce, add the cream after about 5 minutes (after adding the last batch of ingredients.)
Add fish sauce to taste. And don’t forget that steamed jasmine rice!!
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May 6th, 2008 at 6:47 am
ang sarap naman ng pagkapula niyan! yum! kaso…hindi rin ako kumakain ng pork…not anymore. baliw ano?! psst, i have a tag for you.
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May 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Give me 2 bowls of steamed rice, please
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May 8th, 2008 at 12:17 am
hello tita thess!
i was just talking to tita stel over the phone and we were talking about bikol express! parang relatives sila nito, lalo tuloy ako nag-crave! penge rin 3 cups naman ng rice! mahal na dito e:)
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May 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I just made a curried pork with onions and sweet peppers, but I’ve got to say, yours looks nicer than mine did!
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May 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Oh wow ang sarap naman nito. Gusto ko rin ang pumpkin at curry!
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hi Thess. This one looks really appetizing. Something I think I would enjoy.
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May 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
ill be trying this one and get back to comment again once it is successful
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