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Preheat your oven or BBQ to about 180C.
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Stab the meat of the hocks with a narrow blade knife making an incision which fits your finger; sprinkle Alpine Pepper into the cuts so that the flavours can penetrate all the way through the meat as it cooks.
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In a hot, oiled, deep roasting pan, brown the hocks on all surfaces to flavour the outside; once half done, add the onion to brown it as well.
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Once browned, remove from the heat and pour in the stock and add the chilli.
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Cover the meat with aluminium foil ensuring that the plasticized metal sheet does not touch the meat but sits proud; if this is not possible, cover the meat with a piece of baking paper or paperbark and then cover with the foil; (the main thing is to never let anything you will actually eat, be cooked in contact with foil).
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Place in the oven for 2 to 3 hours or until the meat easily pulls away from the bone; the pan can be uncovered for the last 30 minutes of this time (when you can also start to cook the rice as below).
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Once the hocks are cooked, remove them from the liquid and set aside in a warm place.
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Pull all of the meat away from the bones.
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Reduce the liquid in the pan to 1/4 the original volume; strain off and season this sauce with Wildfire Spice to taste.
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Boil the bunya nut halves in a minimum of water and then allow them to cool in this water, this will make it easy to get them out of the shells; use almonds if bunya nuts are hard to get and you can boil them or dry roast them as is your preference, either way, chop the nuts coarsely.
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Start to cook the rices: Add the brown rice and the rice grass to a saucepan which can be fitted with a lid; cover the rice with water so that the water covers the rice by 1 + 1/2 times as much again as the depth of rice; said in another way; you can measure the 200g of rice and add 300ml of water; note that if you were cooking white rice using this absorption method only 200ml of water would be needed.
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For the rice grass (or Inuit wild rice), follow the above directions as for white rice and use a small saucepan.
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To cook the rices, bring the water to the boil and continue boiling until the water boils down to within the surface of the rice; turn the heat down to a gentle simmer and fit the lid to the saucepan; continue simmering for 10 minutes or until the rice is cooked as indicated by blow hole in the surface of the swollen rice; remove from heat once done; place the snow peas on top of the rice and cover until required to serve.
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Styling : Serve the rices in a deep or flat bowl, topped with the braised pork, bunya and snow peas.
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Dust with Lemon Myrtle.
