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Stewed pork is a Christmas special in our family. We celebrate Christmas every year at my sister’s house and my mom prepares a feast that also includes stewed chicken, curry duck, callaloo, stewed red beans, macaroni pie, potato salad, salad, dhalpuri and paratha roti.

It is accompanied by sorrel or ginger beer to wash it down to make more space. It is a meal I look forward to once a year. After our late lunch we exchange presents and continue the celebrations eating desserts including sweet bread, black cake and sponge cake and playing games until nightfall. After a filling and fun filled day we pack up our loot and drive back home.

Trini Stewed Pork

Stewed pork is a Christmas special in our family. We celebrate Christmas every year at my sister’s house and my mom prepares a feast that also includes curry duck, callaloo, stewed red beans, macaroni pie, potato salad, salad, dhalpuri and paratha roti. It is accompanied by sorrel or ginger beer to wash it down to make more space. It is a meal I look forward to once a year. After our late lunch we exchange presents and continue the celebrations eating desserts including sweet bread, black cake and sponge cake and playing games until nightfall. After a filling and fun filled day we pack up our loot and drive back home.

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Course: dinner, lunch

Cuisine: Caribbean, Trinidadian

Keyword: curry stew pork, stewed pork, trini stew pork

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 45

Servings:

Calories: 432kcal

Ingredients

3 lbs pork shoulder, ribs and/or neck bones, pork belly, cut into 1 inch pieces
2 tbs green seasoning
½ large onion
1 tbs minced garlic
4 scallions chopped
6 sprigs thyme
2 oregano fresh stems
2 pudina leaves chopped (substitute culantro/bandhania or cilantro)
2 tomatoes chopped
Hot pepper to taste (and or pimento pepper), optional
3 tsp Himalayan salt or to taste
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 tbs oil
5 tbs brown sugar
2 tbs ketchup
2 tbs butter
½ cup vinegar and/or lemon for washing meat

Instructions

Soak meat with enough water and 1/2 cup vinegar for 20 mins. Next, wash with the juice of a lime or lemon. Rinse several times and drain.
Season meat with green seasoning, onion, garlic, scallion, thyme, oregano, pudina, tomato, hot pepper, salt, black pepper.
Heat oil in a heavy Dutch oven or pot. Add brown sugar and allow it to froth, bubble, expand and darken. Stir in butter and ketchup.
Add meat and stir well to coat with the burnt sugar. Cover and cook for 30 minutes, stirring every ten minutes, until the natural juices evaporate.
Add 2 cups of hot water, stir, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and cook until the meat is fully cooked and the sauce has thickened, checking and stirring, another 10-15 minutes, or more if required. Taste and add more salt if necessary.