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Pork Sausage - {Cha Lua}

Ingredients

1 pound pork loin
8 ounces meat from small pig's head
2 cups salted water
¼ cup cooking oil
5 shallots diced
2 garlic cloves crushed
½ cup finely-chopped wood ear mushrooms
3 tablespoons whole black peppercorns
¼ cup sesame seeds toasted
2 eggs beaten
1 large banana leaf
3 tablespoons fish sauce (nuoc mam)
2 limes cut into wedges

Directions

Boil pork and pig’s head in salted water for 20 minutes, drain and de-bone; cut into small cubes.

Heat oil in a large frying pan, cook shallots and garlic until soft. Add pork, mushrooms and peppercorns. Cook, stirring until mushrooms are soft; finish with sesame seeds. Remove from heat, stir eggs through pork mixture.

Place mixture on the banana leaf, wrap and tie with a string. Steam for 2 hours (above boiling water). Unwrap and slice thinly. Serve with fish sauce and lime wedges.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

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