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Black pork curry recipe

What does the Sri Lankan black pork curry taste like? Black pork curry brings out the flavors of tender smoky pork flavor to spotlight that you might want to keep making this curry over and over to keep that taste around. This is how I make it.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Course: Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine: Sri Lankan, Sri Lankan curry
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 3 tbsp whole coriander toasted and ground
  • 1 tsp whole cumin toasted and ground
  • ¼ tsp fennel seeds toasted and ground
  • 5 curry leaves toasted
  • 1 tbsp dry raw white rice toasted until deep brown and ground
  • 2 tbsp grated coconut toasted until deep brown and ground
  • 2 inches piece of pandan leaves
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 4 whole red chilies toasted and crushed
  • 2 cloves
  • 3 cardamom pods
  • 3 inch piece of cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 2 tbsp salt
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 1 inch piece of ginger
  • 2 inch piece of lemongrass
  • 5 cloves of Malabar tamarind soaked and cut into small pieces
  • 3 tbsp whole black pepper freshly crushed
  • 4 lb. pork rinsed and cut into small pieces
  • 1 tbsp toddy vinegar

Method
 

  1. Dry roast coriander, cumin, fennel seeds, and chilies separately.
  2. on the same skillet toast white rice and curry leaves, until dry and turns smoky brown. (Rice will take longer to brown)
  3. Next toast grated coconut until deep brown and fragrant.
  4. Grind all toasted spices, black pepper, cloves, red chilies, nutmeg into a fine powder in a blender cup or spice grinder.
  5. Use four heaping tablespoons of this deep black curry powder and all remaining spices except cinnamon in the blender cup with sufficient water to make a smooth paste. you just made pork curry paste.
    black curry seasoning
Cooking the curry
  1. Add curry paste you just made to pork and massage into the meat.
  2. Heat couple of tablespoons coconut oil and add stick of cinnamon to fry for a second. add all the meat. in the cooking pot trying to scrape out the curry paste as much as possible into the cooking pot.
  3. Add a cup and half of water cover and cook on low until meat is cooked through and tender. Mine took 40 minutes, cooking time will slightly vary depending on how many pork bones you are using and how small the meat is cut.
  4. Pork shoulder cooked in smoker with black curry paste
    black pork smoked
  5. pork curry cooked in oven
    pork curry made in oven with flat bread and salad

Notes

For smoking with black curry paste use the curry paste to rub the entire piece of meat and cook in Dutch oven over 8 hours at 225-degree temperature. 
Cooking curry flavored pork roast in oven place seasoned pork in Dutch oven and cook at 325 degrees for 2 hours. (Cooking time will be shorter if you are using the curry cut pork).