Description
Special Laing is a dish of dried taro leaves cooked in coconut milk and cream with tender pork pieces and lots of red chillies.
Ingredients
- 500 g sun dried taro leaves
- 500 g pork neck, sliced into small pieces
- 4 pcs medium taro, sliced
- 2 tbsp bagoong (fermented shrimp paste)
- 6 pcs birds eye chillies, chopped and seeds included plus more for garnishing
- 5 cups coconut milk
- 1 cup coconut cream, plus more for garnish.
- 12 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 thumb sized ginger, sliced
- 1 large red onion, chopped
- freshly ground black pepper
- fish sauce
- cooking oil
Instructions
- Generously season pork pieces in salt and pepper, set aside
- In a wok add 1 cup of water then add the pork, bring to a boil then continue to boil until water dries out and renders fat, once it renders fat continue to cook until its brown and crispy.
- Remove all but 3 tbsp of oil into the wok, add garlic, ginger, onion and chillies. Sauté for a minute.
- Pour 3 cups of coconut milk then bring it to a boil, simmer in medium high heat until sauce thickens and starts to render coconut oil. This will take around 20 to 30 minutes.
- Add the remaining coconut milk, bagoong and taro leaves, try to submerge all leaves gently (do not over mix) into the coconut milk then continue to cook covered in low heat for 20 minutes. Check liquid levels, add a bit water if necessary.
- Mix the laing making sure it’s not stuck on the bottom of the wok.
- Add the sliced taro on top together with the coconut cream, simmer in low heat for 10 more minutes.
- Season with fish sauce, turn off heat then serve garnished with more coconut cream on top.