Easy Pork Humba Recipe

This Easy Pork Humba Recipe is a Visayan slow-cooked sweet pork dish based on the Chinese word Hong-ba (red-braised pork belly). It is similar to pork adobo and hamonado except that it characteristically uses fermented black soybeans (tausi).

The defining ingredient of humba is the fermented black beans (tausi), without which it is basically just a slightly sweeter Philippine adobo. Like adobo it has many different variants.

The most basic humba recipe uses fatty cuts of pork, usually pork belly (liempo). It is marinated in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, bay leaves, and black peppercorns. The pork is then sautéed with garlic. Once the meat is half-cooked and lightly browned, water is added to the rest of the ingredients, fermented black beans, and sugar. Banana blossoms may also be added. It is then allowed to simmer for a few hours until the meat is very tender. Alternatively, it can be cooked in a pressure cooker to cut down the cooking time. It is eaten with white rice.

Recipe for Pork Humba:

Easy Pork Humba Recipe

Recipe by Yummy FoodCourse: MainCuisine: FilipinoDifficulty: Easy

This Easy Pork Humba Recipe is a Visayan slow-cooked sweet pork dish based on the Chinese word Hong-ba (red-braised pork belly).

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg pork belly, cut into serving pieces

• 2 tbsp salted black beans (tausi)

• 1/2 cup dried banana blossoms

• 1 tbsp garlic, crushed

• 1 small onion; chopped

• 1/3 cup vinegar

• 1/4 cup soy sauce

• 1/4 cup brown sugar

• 3 bay leaves

• 1 cup rice water

• 1/4 tbsp ground black pepper (or whole peppercorn)

• Cooking oil

Directions

• Marinate pork belly in soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaves, and pepper for 30 minutes to one hour.
• In a saucepan, sauté garlic and onion.
• Add in marinated pork. Reserve marinade for later.
• Stir fry for a few minutes until the pork starts to render its oily fat.
• Add rice water and marinade. Bring to a boil and then lower heat to medium.
• Stew until most of the liquid has evaporated.
• Add brown sugar while stirring once in a while.
• Simmer until an oily sauce consistency is achieved.
• Balance seasoning with soy sauce, vinegar, or sugar according to your taste.
• Remove from heat and serve hot. Eat with rice. Enjoy!

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