Northeast Indian

Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot)

Name: Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot)
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 1.5 lb smoked pork; 1 cup bamboo shoots; 1 onion; 1 tbsp ginger, sliced; 6 garlic cloves; 4 dried red chili; 2 tbsp mustard oil; 1 tsp salt; 1 cup water

Asenla @asenla_kohima

Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot) 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.

60 min Medium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb smoked pork
1 cup bamboo shoots
1 onion
1 tbsp ginger, sliced
6 garlic cloves
4 dried red chili
2 tbsp mustard oil
1 tsp salt
1 cup water

How to cook it

Cut the smoked pork into small cubes; it is already firm and deeply flavoured, so it needs only a short simmer rather than a long braise.
Heat the mustard oil in a pot and fry the sliced onion, ginger, garlic and dried red chilies for 5 minutes until fragrant.
Add the smoked pork and sear 5 minutes, turning the pieces to pick up the aromatics.
Add the bamboo shoots, water and salt, and bring to a boil.
Cover and simmer 25 minutes until the pork is tender and the bamboo shoots have softened and taken on the smoky flavour of the pork.
Mash a few pieces of pork and bamboo shoot against the side of the pot to lightly thicken the broth, which is the pounded, rustic texture the name rep points to.
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 Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot), 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. Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot)
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: 350 kcal
Protein: 24 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 26 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 9 g

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

When to cook it

Vawksa Rep (Mizo Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot) takes about 60 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.