Passport & Plate - Pork in a spot
Kazakhstan | Thursday, March 13, 2014 | 5 photos
Ingredients
Pork in a Pot
For four individual-sized clay pot we need following products:
Pork — 800 gr.
Potatoes — 4 pieces
Forest mushrooms — 200 gr
Onion — 1 piece
Carrot — 1 piece
Garlic — 1 piece
Green onion 1 tuft
Cilantro 1 tuft
Cheese
Sour cream
Meat broth
Tandyr nan
Flour - 6 glasses
Yeast - 50-60 gr
Salt - 2 spoons
Water - 1,5 glasses
How to prepare this recipePork in a Pot
All the ingredients (pork, potatoes, mushrooms, onion, carrot and garlic) chop coarsely.
Salt and pepper the ingredients and combine them together with sour cream. I also added some rosemary for flavor.
Leave the composition for some time, while the oven is heating to 180°C.
When the oven is warm, put the pork in a pot, then the mixture of vegetables.
Pour some meat broth in each pot.
Grate some cheese and put in on the top.
Cook in the oven for about 1.5 hour. Then take pots from oven, put greenstuff in each pot, close and let them just stand for 15 minutes.
Notes: Keep the pots in water for 15 minutes before cooking in order to fill the grains of the pots with water.
Tandyr nan
Make the dough with flour, yeast, water and salt.
Set aside in a warm, draught-free place to prove for 45 minutes-1 hour or until the dough has almost doubled in size.
Make round cakes and bake it in special stove.
It’s a simple recipe but the cakes are so delicious! I think the secret is tandyr stove.
The story behind this recipeI always perceived the meal in a pot as something special and magic. When I was a little girl I used to like fairy tale about The Magic Porridge Pot. I do not remember if I ever believed in Santa Claus, but in the magic of pot I have always believed, and the reason is the story below.
While my parents were busy in the garden, I decided to make the cream of wheat by myself. I knew that my mom used the pot to cook the mush. So I found the pot, filled it all with the semolina and milk and then put it in the oven. Briefly, when my mom came back she saw such a thing: the entire kitchen was dirty of my first culinary experience and I was sitting next to the pot, saying "Stop, little pot, stop". How could I possibly know that semolina will be expanded so much?)))
Even now I believe in the magic of pot, but in a different way.
The meat in a pot is a traditional Russian dish; the only difference of modern culinary is that now people prepare it in ovens, while earlier the food was prepared in Russian stove called petchka. Stove in Russia has always been not just a heating appliance, but the true heart of the house: people used it for preparing food and providing sleeping space and it is even believed that house spirit who protects the home lived next to the stove. That’s why the meal in a pot brings some domestic comfort and warmth.
You know, there are some kinds of recipes that you try to prepare and you like the taste but you don’t have a willing to try it again. And there are some kinds of recipes which you need only to try once and you already have a desire to cook it again. The pork in a pot is the exact recipe for me.
I should say that here, In Kazakhstan, live more than 100 different nationalities, each one has its own culture, traditions and ... cuisine. So with the traditional Russian dish we serve traditional Kazakh round cake from the stove called tandyr. That’s a kind of integration of different cultures here that gives us such a wonderful taste.
