How to prepare Axone
• Boil or pressurize the dry soybean dal till it gets cooked • Strain the water and transfer it to a bamboo basket, cover it with a banana leaf and hang over or keep over fire place(which takes around 3-5 days)
• Pour the fermented soybean in an aluminium pot and pound it with a pestle
• Divide in parts of about 150 to 200 gms and wrap it in a banana leaf
• Dry it over fire place until the fermented soybean gets little hard and banana leaves becomes darker in colour.
Makes 2 servings
Ingredients:
• Axone(Fermented soybean) -150 gms
• Smoked pork -250gms
• Tomato -1medium
• King chilli (Raja mircha)- 1 Piece
• Sliced Ginger- 30gms
• Water- 4 -5 cups
• Salt- As needed
Method of Preparation
• Chop the smoked pork and clean-wash in Luke warm water
• Slice the tomato and ginger
• Pour four cups of water in a pot and add axone, chilli, sliced tomato and cover the lid and bring it to simmer
• After axone gets dissolved and chilli, tomatos get softened mash it with a pestle
• Add the smoked pork and cook slowly until the meat gets tender
• Add ginger and thicken the gravy
• Turn off the heat and transfer to a serving bowl, garnish it with sliced ginger.
