Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 lb Boneless lean pork, cut into
-1-inch cubes
1 1/2 c Water
2 ts Palm sugar OR Indian jaggery
-OR commercial brown sugar
1 ts Tamarind paste, dissolved in
2 tb Water, strained
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Fish sauce (nam pya ye)

Pork prepared in this manner is recommended by Buddhist healers for
persons who are watching their diet (tha-moat-htan).

1. Cook the pork in the water in a covered pan over moderate heat for
about 45 minutes, until the liquid has nearly evaporated.

2. Add the sugar, tamarind liquid, salt, and fish sauce. Cook over
low heat until almost all the liquid has evaporated and just enough
sauce remains so that the pork is moist.

Serve warm with rice with other dishes.

From: THE BURMESE KITCHEN by Copeland Marks and Aung Thein, Evans and
Company, Inc., New York. 1987. ISBN 0-87131-524-6 Shared by: Karin
Brewer, Cooking Echo, 7/93

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