Pork Curry with Pumpkin

A peppery, coconut-less curry inspired by a classic northern Thai curry

This curry is inspired by the classic northern Thai curry featuring bone-in chunks of chicken and winter melon, redolent of prickly ash berries, makhwaen or makhaen (Zanthoxylum limonella Alston).

Sichuan peppercorns, which are much easier to find in the US,¹ stand in for prickly ash berries here. The two aren’t the same, but belonging to the same genus,…