Pork Recipes from Around the World
A tour of the world through pork — 38 authentic dishes, each from a specific region, each with its cultural story and dietary substitutions built in.
38 recipes
🇨🇻 Cachupa
Santiago (Praia), Cape Verde · medium · 180 min
The slow-simmered national stew of hominy corn, beans, and meats — endlessly reboiled and always improving.
🇲🇺 Rougaille
Port Louis, Mauritius · easy · 55 min
A Creole tomato stew of Mauritius, simmered with thyme, ginger, and curry leaf around fish or sausage.
🇯🇵 Osaka-Style Okonomiyaki
Osaka (Kansai), Japan · easy · 40 min
A crisp-edged cabbage pancake griddled with pork belly, painted with sweet-savory sauce and mayo.
🇨🇳 Mapo Tofu
Sichuan, China · easy · 30 min
Silken tofu in a glowing, numbing-hot chili bean sauce — Chengdu’s most famous export.
🇯🇵 Goya Champuru
Okinawa, Japan · easy · 25 min
Okinawa’s signature stir-fry of bitter melon, firm tofu, pork, and egg — humble food from the island of long life.
🇨🇳 Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork)
Guangdong, China · medium · 60 min
Lacquered, honey-glossed barbecue pork with burnished edges — Guangdong’s roast-shop crown jewel, oven-adapted.
🇯🇵 Sapporo Miso Ramen
Hokkaido (Sapporo), Japan · medium · 50 min
Snow-country ramen: a rich miso broth with wok-seared vegetables, springy noodles, and butter melting on top.
🇨🇳 Hongshao Rou (Red-Braised Pork)
Shanghai, China · medium · 105 min
Pork belly lacquered in caramel, soy, and rice wine until it trembles — Shanghai’s definition of home.
🇨🇳 Zhajiangmian (Fried Sauce Noodles)
Beijing, China · easy · 40 min
Thick wheat noodles under a savory fried soybean-paste pork sauce, ringed by crisp raw vegetables you fold in yourself.
🇮🇳 Goan Vindaloo
Goa, India · medium · 90 min
Pork marinated in a fiery vinegar-and-Kashmiri-chili paste, then braised sour, hot, and deeply garlicky.
🇻🇳 Bánh Mì
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · easy · 35 min
A crackly baguette stuffed with pâté, pork, pickled daikon-carrot, cilantro, and chili — French bread reborn in Saigon.
🇹🇭 Jok
Bangkok (Central), Thailand · easy · 55 min
A silky Thai rice congee topped with ginger, scallion, and a soft egg — the classic Bangkok breakfast.
🇰🇭 Bai Sach Chrouk
Siem Reap, Cambodia · easy · 40 min
Thinly sliced grilled coconut-marinated pork over broken rice, with pickles and a clear broth.
🇵🇹 Caldo Verde
Minho, Portugal · easy · 45 min
Portugal’s beloved green soup: silky potato broth with ribbons of collard greens and smoky sausage.
🇫🇷 Galettes de Sarrasin (Buckwheat Crêpes)
Brittany, France · medium · 40 min
Lacy, nutty buckwheat crêpes folded around ham, cheese, and an egg — the "complète" of every Breton crêperie.
🇳🇱 Stamppot Boerenkool
Gelderland, Netherlands · easy · 45 min
Kale mashed straight into potatoes with a well of gravy and smoked sausage — the Netherlands’ winter engine.
🇦🇹 Wiener Schnitzel
Vienna, Austria · medium · 40 min
Vienna’s golden icon: a thin cutlet in a puffed, wavy breadcrumb crust, fried in butter and finished with lemon.
🇫🇷 Tarte Flambée (Flammekueche)
Alsace, France · easy · 32 min
Paper-thin dough blistered under crème fraîche, onions, and lardons — Alsace’s answer to pizza, out of the oven in minutes.
🇵🇱 Bigos (Hunter’s Stew)
Masovia (Warsaw), Poland · medium · 175 min
Sauerkraut and fresh cabbage slow-cooked with assorted meats, mushrooms, and prunes — Poland’s national stew, better each day.
🇸🇰 Bryndzové Halušky
Bratislava, Slovakia · easy · 40 min
Soft potato dumplings tossed with sharp sheep’s-milk bryndza cheese and crowned with crispy bacon — Slovakia’s national dish.
🇫🇷 Quiche Lorraine
Lorraine, France · medium · 70 min
The original quiche: smoked bacon in a silky egg-and-cream custard, baked in buttery pastry — no cheese, the Lorraine way.
🇸🇮 Jota
Ljubljana, Slovenia · easy · 110 min
A hearty Ljubljana stew of soured sauerkraut, borlotti beans, potato, and smoked pork — winter in a pot.
🇪🇪 Mulgikapsad
Tartu, Estonia · easy · 135 min
Sauerkraut braised with pork and pearl barley until soft, sweet, and deeply savory — southern Estonia's pride.
🇱🇻 Grey Peas with Bacon
Riga, Latvia · easy · 70 min
Nutty grey peas simmered soft and tossed with crisp bacon and fried onion — Latvia's unofficial national dish.
🇱🇺 Judd mat Gaardebounen
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · medium · 140 min
Luxembourg's national dish: smoked pork collar simmered tender and served with a creamy broad-bean stew.
🇦🇩 Trinxat
Andorra la Vella, Andorra · easy · 50 min
Mountain cabbage and potato mashed together, then crisped in a pan with bacon like a rustic Pyrenean rösti.
🇸🇲 Nido di Rondine
City of San Marino, San Marino · advanced · 90 min
San Marino's "swallow's nest": pasta rolls filled with ham and cheese, sliced, and baked in tomato and béchamel.
🇱🇹 Cepelinai
Vilnius, Lithuania · advanced · 90 min
Zeppelin-shaped potato dumplings stuffed with meat, served with bacon-onion sauce and sour cream.
🇮🇪 Full Irish Breakfast
Munster, Ireland · medium · 40 min
The great fry-up: eggs, sausage, rashers, black and white pudding, beans, tomato, and soda bread.
🇲🇽 Cochinita Pibil
Yucatán, Mexico · medium · 235 min
Pork marinated blaze-orange in achiote and sour orange, wrapped in banana leaves and roasted until it shreds itself.
🇺🇸 Green Chile Stew
New Mexico, United States · easy · 95 min
Pork simmered with roasted green chiles and potatoes — the smell of a New Mexico autumn in a pot.
🇧🇷 Feijoada
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · medium · 180 min
Brazil’s black-bean and smoked-meat feast, simmered for hours and served with rice, greens, orange, and farofa.
🇵🇷 Mofongo
San Juan, Puerto Rico · medium · 45 min
Fried green plantains mashed with garlic and crackling pork, mounded and filled with garlicky shrimp or stew.
🇲🇽 Carnitas
Michoacán, Mexico · medium · 165 min
Pork slow-confit in its own fat with orange and bay until meltingly tender, then crisped — Michoacán’s Sunday-market glory.
🇵🇪 Pan con Chicharrón
Lima, Peru · medium · 60 min
Crisp fried pork and sweet camote layered in a soft roll with tangy salsa criolla — the definitive Lima weekend breakfast sandwich.
🇨🇦 Cretons sur Pain Grillé
Québec, Canada · medium · 90 min
A Québécois spiced pork-and-onion spread, cold from the fridge, smeared thick on hot buttered toast with a smear of mustard.
🇳🇿 Boil-Up with Doughboys
Waikato, New Zealand · easy · 110 min
A one-pot Māori classic: pork, kūmara, potatoes, and watercress simmered together, with dumplings dropped in at the end.
🇵🇬 Highlands Mumu (Earth-Oven Vegetables)
Highlands, Papua New Guinea · easy · 100 min
Sweet potato, greens, corn, and coconut milk steamed in banana leaves — an oven-friendly take on the mumu feast.