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Braised Pork Roast in Banana Leaves

By: Cook Indonesian

Ingredients:
• 1.25 kg pork roast, butterfly cut
• sea salt, to taste
• ground black pepper, to taste
• 3 spring onions (scallions), chopped
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 2 banana leaves, large, each 60x30 cm

Seasonings:
• ¼ teaspoon coriander (ketumbar), ground
• ¼ teaspoon galangal (laos), ground
• 2 cloves (cengkeh), finely ground
• 1 clove garlic, peeled and finely chopped

Braising Liquid:
• 5 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
• ½ teaspoon galangal (laos), ground
• ¼ teaspoon lesser galangal (kencur), ground
• 250 mL (1 cup) light soy sauce (kecap asin)
• 1 stick, 7.5 cm long cinnamon (kayu manis)
• 125 mL ( ½ cup) water

Preparations:
• Clean and dry roast. Rub with salt, pepper, combined seasoning ingredients and spring onions. Roll up roast and tie with clean string
• In heavy dutch oven, heat oil and brown roast all sides, about 3minutes each side. Remove when done and wrap roast loosely with banana leaves
• Add braising liquid ingredients to Dutch oven and bring to a simmer.
• Lower in banana-leaf wrapped roast and cover tightly. Reduce heat to lowest possible and braise for 2 hours 30 minutes.

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