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Sweet pork with green mango and chilli

Australian Gourmet Traveller quick spring recipe for sweet pork with green mango and chilli.

By Lisa Featherby
  • Serves 4
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Sweet pork with green mango and chilli

Ingredients

  • For deep-frying: peanut oil
  • 800 gm female pork belly cut into 3cm pieces
  • 80 ml (1/3 cup) kecap manis
  • 2 green mangoes cut into julienne on a mandolin
  • 1 bunch sawtooth coriander, washed and thinly sliced
  • 1 bunch round mint, leaves picked
  • To serve: fried shallots
  • To serve: steamed jasmine rice
Chilli palm sugar dressing
  • 1 garlic clove, coarsely chopped
  • 1 small red chilli, coarsely chopped
  • 60 gm light palm sugar
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) lime juice, or to taste
  • 2½ tbsp fish sauce, or to taste

Method

Main
  • 1
    Steam pork belly in a steamer placed over a saucepan of boiling water until cooked through (15-20 minutes), then combine in a bowl with kecap manis. Preheat oil in a wok or deep-sided frying pan to 180C.
  • 2
    Meanwhile, for chilli palm sugar dressing, pound garlic and chilli in a mortar and pestle to a fine paste. Add palm sugar and lime juice, stir until melted, then add fish sauce.
  • 3
    Deep-fry pork in batches until golden (5 minutes; be careful as pork fat may burst while frying and oil may spit). Drain on absorbent paper, transfer to a bowl. Combine mango and herbs in a separate bowl, drizzle half the dressing over, add pork belly and toss to combine. Serve immediately with fried shallots scattered over and remaining dressing and steamed jasmine rice to the side.

Notes

This recipe is from the September 2009 issue of .

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