Northeast Indian

Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style)

Name: Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style)
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 1.5 lb pork shoulder, cut into cubes; 1.5 cups bamboo shoots; 1 cup mustard greens, chopped; 1 tbsp ginger, sliced; 5 garlic cloves; 3 dried red chili; 2 tbsp mustard oil; 1 tsp salt; 1.5 cups water

Asenla @asenla_kohima

Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

55 min Medium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb pork shoulder, cut into cubes
1.5 cups bamboo shoots
1 cup mustard greens, chopped
1 tbsp ginger, sliced
5 garlic cloves
3 dried red chili
2 tbsp mustard oil
1 tsp salt
1.5 cups water

How to cook it

Heat the mustard oil in a pot and fry the ginger, garlic and dried red chilies for 2 minutes until fragrant.
Add the pork and sear over high heat 8 minutes, turning the pieces, until lightly browned.
Add the fresh bamboo shoots, water and salt, and bring to a boil; fresh bamboo shoot cooks down softer and milder than the dried or fermented kind, without the sharper tang.
Cover and simmer 25 minutes until the pork is nearly tender and the bamboo shoot has softened.
Stir in the chopped mustard greens and simmer, uncovered, 8 minutes more until they wilt into the broth and the pork is fully tender.
Serve hot with plain rice.

Serve it with

A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
  
  25 min
The protein alongside
- Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils)
  
  45 min
What it is eaten with
- Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge)
  
  40 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 340 kcal
Protein: 24 g
Carbs: 8 g
Fat: 24 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pork with Fresh Bamboo Shoot (Arunachali-Style) takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.