Asian Meats Recipes - Thai Galloping Horses (Mah Ho) Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 Tbs. peanut oil

• 1 garlic clove, crushed

• 1 small onion, finely chopped

• 12 oz. ground pork

• 3 Tbs. roasted peanuts, ground

• 3 Tbs. jaggery or brown sugar

• salt and pepper

• 1 fresh pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into rounds             

• 1 dried red chili, crumbled

• 2 Tbs. chopped coriander leaves

Serves 8

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Method:

1. Heat the ail in a large frying-pan. When it is hat, add the garlic and onion and fry, stirring occasionally, until the onion is soft.

2. Stir in the minced (ground) park and fry until it loses its pinkness. Add the roasted peanuts, jaggery or sugar and seasoning to taste.

3. Reduce the heat to. law and simmer the mixture far 10 to 15 minutes, or until the park is cooked through and the mixture is thick and dryish. Remove from the heat.

4. Arrange the pineapple rounds an a large serving platter. Carefully spoon the mixture aver the rounds, doming it up slightly in the middle.

5. Garnish with crumbled red chili and the coriander leaves. Serve at once.

Note: This exotically named dish is a typically Thai mixture of the sweet and savory - savory minced (ground) pork served on slices or rounds of sweet fruit. Pineapple is the fruit suggested here but more exotic oriental fruit such as rambutans could also be used. Mah ho is usually served as an hors d'oeuvre.