Pork Pochero Recipe
Ingredients:
2 pounds pork belly – cut into cubes
2-3 tablespoons oil
2 ripe saba bananas – each cut into 3 pieces
1 small carrots – cut into chunks
1 big or 2 medium potatoes – cut into quarters
2 cloves garlic – minced
1 medium onion – chopped
2 medium tomatoes – cut into chunks
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 tablespoons fish sauce
⅛ teaspoon ground pepper
2-3 cups pork broth – or water
1 cup baguio beans
1 cabbage sliced into 4
Instructions:
Boil pork belly in water until it becomes tender. Separate the meat and broth when ready to cook.
Heat oil in a deep pan or a pot and fry the potatoes, carrots, and bananas until the edges are slightly browned. Remove from oil and transfer to a plate.
In the same oil saute garlic, onion, and tomato until limp.
Add the pork belly cuts and the tomato paste.
Season with fish sauce and ground pepper.
Next, add back the fried potatoes, carrots and banana (saba) and also the baguio beans
Pour in the broth/water and let it simmer to cook the potatoes and carrots and until the broth turns into a thicker sauce.
Lastly, add the cabbage and Cover the pot for 3 minutes to cook the cabbage