Pork Vindaloo Recipe

                                                              Pork Vindaloo Recipe

Happy New Year foodies

Here comes my first post of the year 2015.Pork Vindaloo  is a Kerala Christian specialty recipe in Fort Kochi area originally from Goa.It comes from the Anglo Indian families to Kerala kitchen  It's a spicy dish with vinegar and red chillies which tastes better as it sits like fish curry.  ‘Pork Vindaloo’ can be served with rice, pulao, appam, chappathi, parathas or bread and kappa(tapioca)

Ingredients needed

1. Pork - 1 Kg
2. Fennel - 1/2 Tsp
3. Cinnamon sticks - 1
4. Clove - 5
5. Cardamom  - 3
6. Mustard - 1/2 Tsp
7. Fenugreek seeds(uluva)-1 pinch
8. Chopped ginger - 2Tsp
9. Chopped Garlic - 2 Tsp
10. Vinegar - 2 Tb sp
11. Onion - 2 medium or 1 big
12. Tomato - 1
13. Chilli powder - 2 Tb sp
14. Kashmiri chilli powder - 1 Tb sp
15. Turmeric powder - 1/2 Tsp
16. Black pepper powder - 1/2 Tsp
17. Salt - to taste
18. Chopped cilantro - 1/2 Tsp

Method

• Clean and cut pork into medium size pieces.
• Grind ingredients 2- 7 in a mixxie with vinegar.Make a smooth paste out of it.Marinate cleaned pork with this masala paste and keep aside or in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
• In a pressure cooker, add some oil saute ginger - garlic paste or chopped ginger and garlic,then  onion and  tomato puree  fry this until oil separates.
• Simmer the flame add masala powders in the list and fry lightly  until the raw smell goes by continuous stirring.Then finally add the marinated pork pieces.Mix it well and add 1 cup of water.
• Cook marinated pork in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles,if its an young pork and 1-4 whistle for old meat.
• Once it is cool,open the lid and simmer for 5 minutes until the gravy thickens.
• Garnish with chopped cilantro and your delicious Pork Vindaloo is ready and serve warm with  any rice,parathas,naan,bread or kappa.

Notes

• If you want,you can add more cilantro leaves.
• Instead of tomato,use sauce or ketch up
• Avoid cooker if possible and cook in normal heavy bottom pan for more taste.It will takes 45 minutes.But tastes good..I didn't use cooker this time and it tastes better after sitting for 6 hours.
• You can add potato pieces too along with pork for pressure cooking.It gives a thick gravy....in that sense you can define this curry pork with aloo...
• In this recipe,i didnt use Kashimiri red chilli,since i don't have it.If you use that, you will  get red colour gravy.

Prepare this for your family.

Serves for 6

Preparation Time - 1 hour