Pork Adobo
This first set of pictures is actually for vegetables in coconut milk. It is basically veggies sauted in onion, garlic, ginger, a little shrimp paste which is in the yellow tub and coconut milk. It would have been very delicious but I added too much paste. For my quantity of veg a 1/4 tsp would have been enough.
More crucially I made the mistake of using this brand of coconut milk. Wonderfarm from Malaysia you are not wonderful! I should have known when it was on special 4/£1. The consistency is that of slime, the taste is that of sickly sweet fake coconut, and I bought four tins. They are going straight into the garbage. Yuck.
This is the pork adobo. Marinate pork overnight with 4 cloves garlic crushed, 1/3 cup vinegar and 3 bay leaves, black pepper corns, 2 tbs soy sauce. Put all in pan including marinade, add 1/2 cup water and simmer for 1 hr. Add more water if needed.This was ok. It is my first time making Filipino food so maybe it wasn't quite right. The dish was quite strong tasting but not too spicey. Is this typical of Filipino cuisine?Recipes from Gerry Gelle Filipino Cuisine.
posted by Petit at 9:56 PM
4 Comments:
sounds yummy to me :) You can also add coconut milk to your pork adobo, it makes the sauce taste very rich and will thicken it. To make it truly authentic, add chicken for a CPA (chicken pork adobo) :)
In our house we marinate the chicken and pork pieces in a marinade of 2 parts vinegar and 1 part soy sauce. Lots of garlic, 1 bay leaf crushed and lots of pepper. After about 15 minutes add about 1/4 cup oil (olive oil is yummy. Bring everything to a boil, cover tightly and simmer under done. Remove the cover and reduce the sauce. Serve and eat! Traditionally adobo is marinated and then fried, but in our house we skip this part.
Thanks for the tips. I like the idea of adding coconut milk, except not Wonderfarm milk!
I will try your recipe next time:-)
actually, you'll find that Filipino flavors vary. As you try more recipes you'll find that we like a variety of flavors -- from sweet and salty, to puckeringly sour, to spicy hot and creamy, etc.
Hi. Isn't Wonderfarm a brand from Vietnam?
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