Thursday, March 4, 2010

Pork Binagoongan

Ingredients:

600g pork picnic (kasim), cut into small chunks
3 to 4 tbsp shrimp paste (bagoong alamang)
1 (200g) pouch tomato sauce
2 finger pepper (siling haba), sliced


Procedure:

1. Saute pork chunks, bagoong, and sili in 1 tbsp oil for 8 minutes. Add tomato sauce. Saute for 3 minutes.
2. Add 1/2 cup water. Simmer over low heat for 30 to 40 minutes or until the pork is tender, stirring occasionally. Serve with rice, if desired.

Makes 5 servings

Sisig

Ingredients:

3 cloves garlic, sliced and fried to brown (reserve oil)
350g pork head and ear
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/4kg tuna steak, deboned and chopped
1 tsp calamansi juice
1 finger pepper (siling haba), seeded and sliced
2 birds eye chilis (siling labuyo), sliced
1 (200g) pouch Del monte sauce sulit tomato sauce with sarap liver spread


Procedure:

1. Boil pork for 1 hour or until tender. Chop, then season with soy sauce and 1/8 tsp pepper. Drain and reserve any marinade.
2. Sprinkle fish with calamansi juice. Set aside.
3. In reserved garlic oil, saute pork, siling haba, and siling labuyo for 5 minutes. Season with 1/3 tsp iodized salt, and 1/8tsp pepper.
4. Add fish and marinade, then saute for 2 minutes.
5. Add Del monte tomato sauce. Cook, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes or until slightly dry. Top with fried garlic if desired.

Makes 5 servings.