Sweet And Sour Pork

Estimated cooking time: 45 minutes





Sweet & Sour Pork Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork loin, sliced into pieces
1 small can pineapple chunks
1 large onion, quartered
1 red & 1 green bell peppers, sliced into strips
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
3 tablespoons of peanut oil
4 tablespoons of cornstarch
3 tablespoons of ketchup
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
3 cloves of minced garlic

Sweet and Sour Pork Cooking Instructions:

In a pot, boil pork in 2 cups of water with 1/2 teaspoon of salt until tender, then drain (keep the pork stock for later).

Mix 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and soy sauce then coat the pork with the cornstarch mixture.

Fry the pork in a skillet until golden brown, set aside.

Dissolve the remaining 2 tablespoons of cornstarch on 1/2 cup of pork stock - set aside.

Sauté garlic and onions on oil, then add the bell peppers, pineapple chunks (including the syrup), ketchup, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and the dissolved cornstarch. Stir until sauce thickens.

Pour over fried pork then serve with rice.

Pork Sinigang

Estimated cooking and preparation time: 1 hour





Pork Sinigang Ingredients:

3/4 kilo Pork, cut into chunks
3 tomatoes, sliced
2 onions, diced
5 cloves of garlic, minced
100 grams Kangkong (river spinach)
100 grams String beans
2 pieces horse radishes, sliced
3 pieces gabi (taro), pealed
2 pieces sili pag sigang (green finger pepper)
200 grams sampalok (tamarind)
3 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)
1 liter of rice wash or water


Sinigang Cooking Instructions:

*Boil sampalok in water until the shell shows cracks. Let cool then peal off the shells and with a strainer, pour samplalok (including water) into a bowl. Gently massage the sampalok meat off the seeds, strain again.
* In a pot, sauté garlic and onion then add the tomatoes. Let simmer for 5 minutes.
* Add pork and fish sauce then add the rice wash. Bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes then add the gabi. Continue to simmer for another 15 minutes or until the pork is tender.
* Add the horse radish and simmer for 10 minutes then add the string beans, kangkong and sili (for spice-optional). Let boil for 2 minutes.
* Serve piping hot.

Sinigang Cooking Tip:


Instead of sampalok fruit (tamarind), you can substitute it with any commercial souring seasoning like Knorr sampalok seasoning or tamarind bouillon cubes for this pork sinigang recipe.

Pork/Beef Steak Filipino Style Recipie

Estimated time to prepare and cook: 50 minutes





Ingredients:

3/4 kilo tender pork or beef steaks, sliced
1 tablespoon kalamansi or lemon juice
5 tablespoons soy sauce
3 cloves of garlic
1 small piece ginger, crushed
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 cup onions, sliced in rings
4 tablespoons cooking oil


Pork / Beef Steak Cooking Instructions:

* Marinate the pork or beef steak in kalamansi (lemon) juice, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and pepper for 30 minutes.
* In a frying, add cooking oil. Add the marinated pork or beef steak and cook slow until done.
* Increase heat for a minute or two to brown steaks.
* Add the sliced onions and continue to cook for another minute.
* Serve on a platter including the oil and sauce.
* Best served with hot plain rice.

Pork Menudo

Estimated preparation & cooking time: 50 minutes





Menudo Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork (cut into small chunks)
1/4 kilo pork liver (cut into small cubes)
5 pieces chorizo Bilbao (also cut in small pieces)
4 potatoes (peeled, cut in small cubes, fried)
1 green and 1 red bell pepper (diced)
1 cup chickpeas
1/4 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1 cup pork or chicken stock
2 teaspoons of patis (fish sauce)
3 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon atsuete oil (optional)
3 tomatoes (diced)
1 small head of garlic (minced)
1 medium size onion (diced)


Menudo Cooking Instructions:

In a pan or wok, heat cooking oil and atsuete oil.

Saute garlic, onion. Then add the pork, liver, chorizo de Bilabo, tomatoes, bell pepper, paprika, patis and the stock.

Cover and bring to a boil. Simmer for 20 minutes or until the pork is tender.

Add the chickpeas, potatoes and raisins. Boil of another 2 minutes.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Serve hot with white rice.

Longganisa Recipe|Filipino Sausage

Estimated preparation & cooking time:



1 hour excluding standing and refrigeration time


Longganisa Ingredients:

1 kilo ground pork (include the pork fat)
1 spoon salt
1 spoon brown sugar
1 spoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon saltpeter (salitre)
1/2 teaspoon crushed laurel leaves
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon red peppers, minced
4 cloves of garlic, crushed then minced
1/4 cup vinegar
1/8 cup soy sauce
Sausage casings


Longganisa Cooking Instructions:


In a big mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except the sausage casings

Mix well and let stand for an hour

Tie one end of the sausage casing and slowly fill the casing with the ground pork mixture until the end of the casing, then tie the end

Tie the middle of the sausage casing in intervals of about 3 inches.

Keep refrigerated for 2 to 3 days

To cook, boil longganisa in 1/2 cup of water on a pan or wok. Water will soon evaporate then oil will ooze from the longganisa. Fry it on its own oil or add a few tablespoons of cooking oil and continue to cook for 5 to 10 minutes or until the sausage casings turn brownish

Longganisa Serving Tips:


Longganisa is ideally served with steamed rice or Fried Rice

Pork Kilawin recipe

Estimated cooking time:





Pork Kilawin Ingredients:

1 kilo pork
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup Vinegar
2 medium onions, chopped
4 cups of water
1 teaspoon salt

Pork Kilawin Cooking Instructions:

In a casserole, put pork in water and some salt.

Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes or until the pork is tender and the skin is soft.

Remove pork from water.

Slice the pork into bite sized pieces while still hot.

Place in a bowl and add vinegar, soy sauce and chopped, uncooked onions.

Serve immediately!

Crispy Pata

preparation & drying: 4 hours to 1 day



Estimated cooking time: 20 minutes



Crispy Pata Ingredients:

1 Pata (front or hind leg of a pig including the knuckles)
1 bottle of soda (7Up or sprite)
1 tablespoon of salt
2 tablespoons patis (fish sauce)
1/2 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon of monosodium glutamate (MSG)
4 tablespoons of flour
Enough oil for deep frying
Enough water for boiling

Crispy Pata Cooking Instructions:

Clean the pork pata by removing all hairs and by scraping the skin with a knife. Wash thoroughly.

Make four to five inch cuts on the sides of the pata.

On a deep stock pot, place the pata in water with soda and salt. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes. Then add the baking soda and continue to simmer for another 10 minutes.

Remove the pata from the pot and hang and allow to drip dry for 24 hours. An alternative to this is to thoroughly drain the pork pata and refrigerate for a few hours.

After the above process, rub patis on the pata and sprinkle flour liberally.

In a deep frying pot, heat cooking oil and deep fry the pork pata until golden brown.


Crispy Pata Dip Sauce:


Mix 3/4 cup of vinegar, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 2 cloves of crushed garlic, 1 head of diced onion and 1 hot pepper. Salt and pepper to taste.

Chicken/Pork Adobo

Estimated cooking time: 50 minutes



Adobo Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork cut in cubes + 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into pieces or
choice of either 1 kilo of pork or 1 kilo of chicken
1 head garlic, minced
1/2 yellow onion, diced
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 cup vinegar
2 cups of water
1 teaspoon paprika
5 laurel leaves (bay leaves)
4 tablespoons of cooking oil or olive oil
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Salt and pepper to taste
3 tablespoons water



Adobo Cooking Instructions:

In a big sauce pan or wok, heat 2 tablespoons of oil then sauté the minced garlic and onions.

Add the pork and chicken to the pan. Add 2 cups of water, 1/4 cup of soy sauce, vinegar, paprika and the bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or when meat is tender.

Remove the pork and chicken from the sauce pan and on another pan, heat cooking oil and brown the pork and chicken for a few minutes.

Mix the browned pork and chicken back to the sauce and add cornstarch dissolved in water to thicken.

Add salt and/or pepper if desired

Bring to a boil then simmer for an additional 5 minutes.

Serve hot with the adobo gravy and plain rice.


Adobo Cooking Tips:


You have the option to add crushed ginger to the onions and garlic when sautéing. Ginger adds a unique flavor to your pork/chicken adobo.

Filipino Pork Sisig

Sisig, the ultimate pulutan companion for beer. Around bars and restaurants, the many varieties of sisig dish is a best seller either to go along your favorite drink or to be chowed down with hot steamed rice.



Originally, sisig was made from chopped parts of a pig’s head — ears, snout, the brain, etc. Over the years it was reinvented into simple minced meat served on a sizzling platter with chili, liver, onion and seasoned with calamansi and vinegar.







Different orders of sisig come in pork, chicken, tuna, chorizo, bangus, and tofu. Adding raw egg on the dish while it’s sizzling hot heightens the flavor as well.



Estimated cooking time: 3 to 4 hours

Sisig Ingredients:

* 1-1/2 lbs pork cheeks (or 2 lbs deboned pork hocks)

* 1/2 lb beef or pork tongue

* 1/2 lb beef or pork heart

* 1/2 lb liver (pork, beef or chicken)

* 2 cups water (for boiling)

* 1 cup pineapple juice (for boiling)


* 1 tsp whole black peppers (for boiling)

Marinade seasonings:

* 1 cup chopped onions

* 3-4 finger hot peppers (siling labuyo) (seeded and chopped)

* 1/4 cup vinegar

* 1/4 cup calamansi juice (lemon juice)

* 1/4 cup pineapple juice

* 1 tbsp minced fresh ginger


* 1 clove garlic, minced

* 1 tsp whole black pepper (crushed)

* 1 pc bay leaf (crushed)

* Salt to taste

Sisig Cooking Instructions:

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Combine pork cheeks (or deboned pork hocks), heart, and tongue in pineapple juice, salt, water and crushed whole black pepper and bring to a boil; simmer for about 1 hour or until tender.

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Drain and cool to room temperature.

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Slice pork cheeks/hocks, liver, heart and tongue, into 2″X3″ X 1/4″ thick pieces.

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Place in bamboo skewers and grill over charcoal briquettes until pork rind is crisp and browned.


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Chop the grilled pork cheeks/hocks, liver, heart, and tongue into 1/4 inch sized cubes;

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Mix the chopped meat with the marinade seasoning mix of garlic, ginger, onions, vinegar, calamansi juice, hot peppers (siling labuyo), bay leaf, salt and pepper;

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Keep the marinated mixture in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours before serving.