Pickled Salted Pork With Mogay (Madras Cucumber) - Lallu

Recipe by Laveena Shetty

PICKLED SALTED PORK WITH MOGEY

Ingredients:
1/2 kg salted pork (store bought or home made recipe below, cut in cubes)
2 large onions (cubes)
1 whole pod garlic (chopped)
1/2" ginger (finely chopped)
2 tbsp bafat powder
2 tbsp amla/gooseberry size tamarind (puréed)
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
3 fresh cinnamon leaves/tikke pana
3 green chillies
salt to taste
vinegar to taste
1 large mogay/madras cucumber (cut in cubes)

Steps:
  1. Cut the salted pork belly in to cubes. Clean the salted pork and soak it in water for 10 minutes for the salt to extract.
  2. In a large cooking pan, add the cubed drained pork, add onions, garlic, ginger, bafat powder, garam masala, tamarind, coriander and cumin powder and cook well. Stir occasionally.
  3. Add mogay to the salted pork, followed by salt, cinnamon leaves, turmeric, and a little vinegar.
  4. Cook till desired and serve hot.
  5. ENJOY!

SALTED PORK

Ingredients:
1/2 kg pork belly
1 cup rock salt

Steps:
  1. Wash the pork belly well. 
  2. Add deep slits vertically, keeping the skin intact below (would look like a loaf of bread with slits but intact on one side)
  3. Fill rock salt in between the slits and wrap it tightly with thread. 
  4. Refrigerate in a glass container for 1 week.