Wak Gominda | Pork with Pumpkin | Garo Recipe

Garo Pork with Pumkin recipe

Wak gominda is a traditional pork with pumpkin recipe of the Garo tribe in North East India. It is an oil free and easy to cook recipe with a few humble ingredients available at home. It’s a superlatively delicious combination of meat and vegetable. It’s my personal favourite dish, which is perfect for a comforting meal on any day. First the colour of this dish is so beautiful, where the pork is ultra-tender, the pumpkin is sweet and perfectly heated by the fresh green chilies. The dish is so popular that no parties can be considered complete without it and I’m sure that you will be totally blown away with this delicious recipe from North East India.

INGREDIENTS

1.    Pork 500 gms

2.    Pumpkin 500 gms chopped into chunky pieces

3.    Green chilies 10 to 15 slit

4.    Salt as taste

5.    Ginger (optional) 1 inch roughly pounded

6.    Kalchi or Khar 4 tablespoon or 1tsp cooking soda

PREPARATION

1.    Take a large pot or pan, add your pork pieces, ginger and salt as taste still – stir, cover and cook it for 20 to 30 minutes and occasionally stir in between.

2.    Now we will add the slit green chilies, stir and open cook it for a couple of minutes.

3.    Add your pumpkin pieces and Kalchi, which if you don’t have can be replaced by cooking soda; stir it well, cover and cook it for 30 minutes until the pumpkin is completely soft and begins to disintegrate.

4.    Now we will open cook it for another 5 minutes and taste the dish as well as adjust the kalchi and salt. I like adding a teaspoon of khalchi towards the end and cook it for 5 more minutes.

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