Northeast Indian

Naga Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot

Name: Naga Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 1.5 lb smoked pork; 1/2 cup dried bamboo shoot; 1 tbsp ginger, sliced; 3 garlic cloves; 2 green chili; 2 cups water; 1/2 tsp salt

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

Naga Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot 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 carb Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb smoked pork
1/2 cup dried bamboo shoot
1 tbsp ginger, sliced
3 garlic cloves
2 green chili
2 cups water
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Soak the dried bamboo shoot in warm water for 20 minutes, then drain.
Cut the smoked pork into small pieces and rinse briefly.
Place the pork, bamboo shoot, ginger, garlic, and slit green chilies in a pot with the water.
Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer over low heat until the pork is tender and the flavors meld, about 35 minutes.
Taste before adding salt, since smoked pork and bamboo shoot are both already salty and pungent.
Serve hot with plain rice; this is the everyday Naga protein, simmered rather than fried in oil.

Watch how to cook Naga Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot

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Serve it with

A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Naga 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. Naga 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 Naga 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: 270 kcal
Protein: 22 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 18 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 560 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

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

When to cook it

Naga Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot 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.