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Twa Ko (recipe)

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Twa Ko (recipe)
DishTwa Ko
Recipe languageEnglish
Adapted fromTevy's Food Blog
InstructionsPartial instructions
SubjectsFood & Foodways

Coarsely chopped fatty pork or beef pounded with lemongrass kroeung aromatics, stuffed into casings and air-dried.

This page records one documented preparation of Twa Ko, summarised from a published recipe. (Tevy's Food Blog) The cited source gives only partial instructions, so the method below is incomplete.

Ingredients

  • 3.5 lb pork shoulder, pork butt or beef with 25 percent fat
  • 0.5 cup minced garlic
  • 10 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced
  • 0.5 cup minced lemongrass
  • 0.33 cup minced galangal
  • 3 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 package Thai nam powder
  • 1 package red Chinese barbecue seasoning powder, optional
  • 1 to 2 tbsp crushed Thai chillies, optional
  • 1 cup cold cooked rice
  • Pork casing

Preparation

  1. Cut the meat into small pieces.
  2. Pound the lemongrass, galangal, garlic and lime leaves into a paste.
  3. Mix the meat, paste and remaining ingredients thoroughly by hand.
  4. Rinse the salt from the inside and outside of the casing.
  5. Fill the casing with a sausage stuffer or a clean wide-topped tube.
  6. Twist the filled casing into links.
  7. Hang the links in sunlight about one day, or fan them indoors for a day if there is no sun.
  8. Refrigerate or freeze the sausages until needed.
  9. Grill or pan-fry to serve; the cited recipe does not state drying or cooking times and temperatures.

Sources and reuse information

The ingredient list above is a plain factual listing of what the cited source calls for. The numbered method is a short original summary written for this wiki, not a copy of the source's instruction text. Follow the link for the full published recipe.