Pinatisang
Baboy
(Pork
Cooked in Fish Sauce)
Ingredients:
½ kilo
pork, cut into cubes
10 cloves
of garlic, minced
1 medium
bulb onion, chopped
6
tablespoons fish sauce
1
tablespoon white vinegar
1 table
spoon soy sauce
1
tablespoon black pepper, ground
2
tablespoons cooking oil
2 dried
blades of bay leaf
Cooking
Instructions:
Mix the
following in a pot: pork, white vinegar, soy sauce, ground black pepper, half
of the minced garlic, and four tablespoons fish sauce. Marinate for 30 minutes. Cook in low flame and stir occasionally. If the mixture dries up and the pork is still
not tender, add water. Continue cooking
in low flame until the liquid is reduced and the pork is tender. Remove from the stove.
In a
pre-heated pan, pour in the cooking oil and sauté the remaining garlic until
medium brown. Toss in the onion. When the onion is tender, add the remaining
fish sauce (approximately two tablespoons).
Stir in the cooked pork mixture from the pot. Put the bay leaf. Stir and let it simmer in a covered pan for
not more than five minutes.
This
recipe will serve up to four people.
Additional
Notes: You may reduce the amount of
fish sauce that you will be using. Every
fish sauce sold in the market has its own characteristic saltiness. Jufran Thai fish sauce was used in this
recipe.
