Babi Pongteh

Recipe from Auntie Johna, supposedly a Malacca dish:

Ingredients:
Approx 25 small onions
2 clove garlic
(both onions and garlic peeled and chopped finely, or pounded)
3 heaped tablespoon of fremented bean paste (tau cheo)- pounded finely
1kg pig thigh (twee bak) cut into big chunks
10 dried shitake mushrooms, soaked, quartered and fried
3 potatoes peeled, quartered and fried
add salt and sugar(rock sugar) to taste
thick black sauce, gula melaka

Method:
Fry chopped onions and garlic till fragrant
Add pounded bean paste
When fragrant add in pork
Simmer for 10 mins
Add mushroom and potatotes and water from soaked mushroom
Simmer till pork tender
If too dry add hot water
When pork cooked, add salt to taste
Add rock sugar
Pongteh is generally on the sweet side, add more rock sugar and small sugar cane to give special sweet taste