Northeast Indian
Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork)
Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice
- 1 lb pork, bone-in pieces
- 1 tbsp mustard oil
- 1 tbsp ginger, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 bay leaf
- 3.5 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Rinse the rice and set aside.
- Heat the mustard oil in a heavy pot and cook the pork with the ginger, garlic, turmeric, and bay leaf until the pork is lightly browned, about 8 minutes.
- Add the water and salt, bring to a boil, then cover and simmer until the pork is nearly tender, about 20 minutes.
- Stir in the rinsed rice, cover, and cook over low heat until the rice is fully cooked and has absorbed the pork broth, about 20 minutes, stirring gently partway through.
- Let it rest covered for 5 minutes off the heat before fluffing and serving hot.
- This one-pot dish is a full meal on its own, no side dishes needed.
Serve it with
A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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The protein alongside
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Jadoh (Rice Cooked with Pork) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on rice and pork.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Northeast India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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