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View this post on Instagram Happy Spring Festival, friends! In honor of Year of the Pig I made a boar pörkölt (kind of like goulash) with hand-cut dumplings, fortified with Uyghur flavors. That means mixing Chinese Muslim and Eastern European ingredients — both are influenced by Ottoman cuisine, so this feels harmonious to me (even if swine is off the menu for Uyghur folks). The stew is @nicky.usa wild boar with Pixian doubanjiang (think Sichuan fava miso), smoked tomato sauce I put up last summer, lots of onion and garlic, and seasoned with ground coriander, cumin, black pepper, and paprika. The dumplings are kind of like Hungarian nokedli — just eggs, flour and salt, kneaded and roughly cut into bite-sized hunks. It’s important to note that Uyghur people celebrate Noruz on the actual first day of spring, not in winter like Chinese Spring Festival. But it’s a properly stewy day, and red is still a lucky New Year color. 🐗 🧧 🎊This delectable wild boar stew meat is available in convenient one-pound packs at @newseasonsmarket and other well-stocked grocers throughout the Northwest. A post shared by Heather Arndt Anderson (@heatherarndtanderson) on Feb 5, 2019 at 5:17pm PST
Happy Spring Festival, friends! In honor of Year of the Pig I made a boar pörkölt (kind of like goulash) with hand-cut dumplings, fortified with Uyghur flavors. That means mixing Chinese Muslim and Eastern European ingredients — both are influenced by Ottoman cuisine, so this feels harmonious to me (even if swine is off the menu for Uyghur folks). The stew is @nicky.usa wild boar with Pixian doubanjiang (think Sichuan fava miso), smoked tomato sauce I put up last summer, lots of onion and garlic, and seasoned with ground coriander, cumin, black pepper, and paprika. The dumplings are kind of like Hungarian nokedli — just eggs, flour and salt, kneaded and roughly cut into bite-sized hunks. It’s important to note that Uyghur people celebrate Noruz on the actual first day of spring, not in winter like Chinese Spring Festival. But it’s a properly stewy day, and red is still a lucky New Year color. 🐗 🧧 🎊This delectable wild boar stew meat is available in convenient one-pound packs at @newseasonsmarket and other well-stocked grocers throughout the Northwest.
A post shared by Heather Arndt Anderson (@heatherarndtanderson) on Feb 5, 2019 at 5:17pm PST