Recipe: Delicious Pork Adobo

Pork Adobo. The Basic Pork Adobo version is what you see in the recipe below. There are also similar versions with additional ingredients. Pork and Chicken Adobo is perhaps one of the favorite when it comes to family picnics.

Heat oil in a large skillet; rotate to coat sides of skillet. Add pork pieces and cook until meat is browned. Add garlic and sauté for a minute. You can cook Pork Adobo using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pork Adobo

1. You need of pork belly, cut into 1.5-2” chunks.
2. Prepare of Soy Sauce.
3. It's of Apple Cider Vinegar.
4. You need of garlic; minced.
5. You need of Garlic Powder.
6. It's of Whole Black Peppercorns.
7. You need of Bay leaves.
8. You need of sugar.
9. You need of Cornstarch slurry.

Add soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaf, pepper and water. Stir together the vinegar, soy sauce, ketchup, garlic, and bay leaves in a large saucepan. Add the cubed pork, and bring to a boil over high heat. The Filipino adobo is a cooking process or technique where meat, seafood, or indigenous vegetables are braised in a mixture of soy sauce and vinegar with aromatics such as garlic, onions, peppercorns, and bay leaves.

Pork Adobo step by step

1. If you have time, marinate your pork belly pieces in soy sauce and garlic powder for at least 20mins..
   
2. If you don’t have time, or you’re really hungry like I was, just coat the pork belly pieces in about 1 cup soy sauce and 3 tbsp garlic powder while you mince up 5 cloves of garlic..
3. In a med-high heated pan with oil, fry the pork belly til golden brown on all sides..
4. Remove the pork, and add your minced garlic. Do not burn the garlic..
5. I added 3 bay leaves and 1.5 tbsp of Black peppercorns to bring out their flavors. Sauté for a minute..
6. Add the pork back in with the remaining soy sauce marinade, and add water just until half of the pork is covered. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to med-low and cover for at least 30 mins..
7. Add half cup of Apple cider vinegar (or to taste). Balance the salty/sour with some sugar. pour in about 2tbsp of a cornstarch slurry (1 part water : 1 part cornstarch) to thicken the sauce. Done!.

As many and as diverse are the islands and dialects in the Philippines are the many ways adobo is prepared. Combine the soy sauce, garlic, sugar and peppercorns in a large bowl. Most common is chicken (Adobong Manok) or Pork (Adobong Baboy). Vegetables like, snake beans, water spinach, and eggplant are also cooked in this manner. How to make Pork Adobo tastier Pork Adobo Recipe Instructions In a medium dutch oven or pot over medium high heat, add the oil and sear the pork until browned on all sides.