Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, humba - braised pork belly. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Thinking of what to cook for dinner? Try this one: braised pork belly humba. Humba is a stewed pork dish very much similar to adobo.
Humba - Braised Pork Belly is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Humba - Braised Pork Belly is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook humba - braised pork belly using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Humba - Braised Pork Belly:
- Take 1 block tofu in fermented black bean sauce
- Take 4 cloves garlic
- Take 1 medium onion chopped
- Take 1 tsp black pepper corn
- Make ready 4 Bay leaves
- Get Pork belly or Pigue
- Take 1/4 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 1/4 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/8 cup sugar cane vinegar
Humba is a Filipino braised pork belly cooked by boiling thick cubes of meat until fork-tender. The next step is to allow the meat to render some of its fat before sauteing with spices and then braising it in soy-vinegar sauce. The method of cooking is similar to adobo (chicken or lean pork) by simmering the meat in a marinade of soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, bay leaf, and peppercorns. The difference is the type of meat used which is pork belly, which has skin, fat, and lean portions.
Instructions to make Humba - Braised Pork Belly:
- Blanch the pork belly for 4-5 minutes to remove excess fat and blood foams the wash it with cold water.
- Add the soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns, sugar, onions, garlic and fermented tofu then slow cook over Low heat the belly in sauce for about an hour and half.
- You may use pressure cooker, which will cook the meat for about 15 minutes, but I prefer the slow cooking under Low heat method for savoury flavour. :)
Many Filipinos cook humba without rendering the pork fat, and that is okay. Delicious braised pork belly with savory-sweet soy-vinegar sauce with a distinguishing taste of tausi cooked until tender. Pork Humba is another Filipino dish to try! Humba is a Filipino braised pork dish that is very popular in the Visayan and southern regions. Some say humba is originally a Chinese dish, which probably has a little truth to it.
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