Northeast Indian

Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork)

Name: Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork)
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups rice; 1 lb pork, bone-in pieces; 1 tbsp mustard oil; 1 tbsp ginger, sliced; 3 garlic cloves; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 1 bay leaf; 3.5 cups water; 1 tsp salt

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast, 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.

50 min Medium Low sodium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups rice
1 lb pork, bone-in pieces
1 tbsp mustard oil
1 tbsp ginger, sliced
3 garlic cloves
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 bay leaf
3.5 cups water
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Rinse the rice and set aside.
Heat the mustard oil in a heavy pot and cook the pork with the ginger, garlic, turmeric, and bay leaf until the pork is lightly browned, about 8 minutes.
Add the water and salt, bring to a boil, then cover and simmer until the pork is nearly tender, about 20 minutes.
Stir in the rinsed rice, cover, and cook over low heat until the rice is fully cooked and has absorbed the pork broth, about 20 minutes, stirring gently partway through.
Let it rest covered for 5 minutes off the heat before fluffing and serving hot.
This one-pot dish is a full meal on its own, no side dishes needed.

Watch how to cook Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork), 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. Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork)
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: 440 kcal
Protein: 18 g
Carbs: 52 g
Fat: 18 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 400 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

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

When to cook it

Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.