Anishi Pork

Dried, pressed taro leaf cakes (anishi) cooked with pork — the taro leaves are blanched, pressed, and dried in the sun until they compact into dense, dark-green blocks that are then simmered with pork pieces, dried chilli, and ginger. An Ao Naga speciality with an earthy, slightly bitter flavour from the fermented leaf; the anishi dissolves into the sauce as it cooks.