Sweet spiced possum brais
Ingredients
- 4 whole possums
- 1 kg 1.5 castor sugar
- 500 ml 500 water and extra 360 ml
- 360 ml fish sauce
- 175 ml soya sauce
- 2 kg shallots
- 250 gm soya chilli paste
- 50 gm sambal oelek
- rendered duck fat
Instructions
- 1 Heat oven to 150 degrees C. Cut the possum into smaller joints. Sear in olive oil. Place possum in a deep oven proof dish and add enough duck fat to just cover the possum. Simmer slowly in duck fat for 4 to 5 hours until meat almost falls off bone. Cool. Strain and remove all meat. Discard bones and reserve fat / liquid for next batch. Dice meat into 5 cm cubes.
- 2
Bring the sugar and 500 ml of water to boil and cook to golden caramel. Add immediately the soya sauce, fish sauce, 360 ml water and possum meat. Stir well.- 3
Add soya chilli paste and sambal oelek and simmer for 10 minutes.- 4
Serve with rice and asian greens. - 2