Pork and dark beer Lao stew

Ingredients; Pork stew meat 1 kg (cubed), 3 big onions, bay leaves, fish sauce 3 tbsp, garlic 2 cloves, white wine vinegar 4 tbsp, palm sugar 1 tbsp, dark beer Lao 1 bottle, raisins 150 gr., chilli flakes 1 teaspoon

Dust the pork with a little flour. Heat oil in a saucepan until sizzling, add the pork. Cook over medium heat until brown, add the chopped onions. Stir occasionally until the onions start to get soft.
Add the Beer Lao, bay leaves, garlic, sugar, fish sauce, chili flakes and vinegar. Let it simmer for at least 40 minutes, stir occasionally.
Add the raisins and cook for another 20 minutes. Taste and add more fish sauce, sugar or vinegar to your taste.

recipe; Hungarian goulash, more or less.

Ingredients: 500gr stew beef, 1 big onion, 1 yellow sweet pepper, 1 red sweet pepper, 200gr mushrooms, about 8 garlic cloves , 5 red tomatoes, 5 bay leaves, pepper, salt, 5 chili peppers, paprika powder, thyme, 2 tablespoons of tomato puree, fish sauce, butter or oil.

Cut the beef into bite-sized pieces and fry in hot butter or oil until brown. Use a deep frying pan. Slice the chili peppers and add them. Cut up the onion and sweet peppers, big chunks will do. After frying the chili peppers for two minutes, add the onion and sweet peppers. Turn the heat down and let it simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Add about 10 cl of water, the finely chopped tomatoes and tomato puree.
Now add the mushrooms, garlic, bay leaves, pepper and salt.
Close the lit and let it simmer, about 30 min. Have a taste and add a little thyme, paprika powder, chili flakes and fish sauce. Let it simmer until the meat is very tender. (about 1 hour).
Taste and add more fish sauce, herbs and spices if needed.
Serve hot with dark bread. You can top it with some cheese.
You don't have to add fish sauce, but Asian friends love it in their stew.