Pinatisang Baboy

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.