Read the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the blanks .
meat | temperature | pasty | tightly |
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now | takes | leaves | period | into |
Traditionally , cha lua is made of lean pork , potato starch , garlic , ground black pepper , and nuoc mam ( fish sauce ) . The pork has to be pounded until it becomes (1)_______ ; it cannot be chopped or ground , as the meat would still be (2)_______ , dry , and crumbly . Near the end of the pounding (3)_______ , a few spoonfuls of nuoc mam are added to the (4)_______ for flavour , but salt , black pepper , and sugar can also be added . The meat is (5)______ called giò sống , meaning " raw sausage " , and can be used in other dishes , as well .
The mixture is then wrapped tightly in banana (6)_______ into a cylindrical shape and boiled . If the banana leaf is not wrapped (7)______ and water leaks inside while it is being boiled , the sausage will spoil easily if kept at room (8)_______ . The sausage has to be submerged vertically (9)______ boiling water , and a 1-kg sausage typically (10)________ an hour to cook .
1. pasty
2. fibrous
3. period
4. meat
5. now
6. leaves
7. tightly
8. temperature
9. into
10. takes