Ingredients
- 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) boneless pork belly, skin on
- 1 onion, quartered
- 6 cloves garlic clove, smashed
- 3 bay leaves
- 2 tablespoons of fine salt
- 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
- vegetable oil, for deep-frying
- 1 handful chilli leaves (optional)
- steamed grain, for everyone
- 250 g (9 oz) cherry tomato plants
- 60 ml (2 fl oz/ cup) vegetable oil
- 6 cloves garlic clove, crushed
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons of sauteed shrimp paste (bagoong alamang)
- 1 lengthy eco-friendly chilli
- 2 red bird’s-eye chillies, thinly sliced around the diagonal
Cook's notes
Oven climate is for conventional if using fan-forced (convection), lessen the temperature by 20C. We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml 1 cup equals 250 ml. All herbs are fresh (unless of course specified) and cups are gently packed. All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless of course specified. All eggs are 55-60 g, unless of course specified.
Instructions
To componen-prepare the pork, put it inside a large, deep saucepan and pour in enough cold water to pay for. Provide the boil over high temperature, skimming any scum in the surface. Add some onion, garlic clove, bay leaves, salt and peppercorns. Lessen the heat to low, cover, and prepare for one hour, or until fork-tender. Transfer the pork to some shallow dish and permit to awesome. Strain the cooking liquid, discarding the solids, and reserve 250 ml (8 fl oz/1 cup) to help make the sauce. Discard the rest of the cooking liquid.
To deep-fry the pork, fill a sizable, deep saucepan or wok one-third filled with vegetable oil and put over medium–high heat before the oil reaches 180°C (350°F). Pat the pork dry using paper towel and reduce 2 cm ( inch) wide lengths, then into 1.5 cm ( inch) pieces. Employed in batches, lightly lower the pork in to the herbal and deep-fry for several minutes, or before the meat is golden and also the skin is crisp (make sure the oil returns to 180°C in between each batch). Remove having a slotted spoon and drain in writing towel. Break pieces in two and hang aside.
To deep-fry the chilli leaves, if using, return the oil to 180°C. Deep-fry the leaves for 25 seconds or until crisp. Remove having a slotted spoon and drain in writing towel.
To create guisado bagoong, halve five from the tomato plants and reserve. Cut the rest of the tomato plants into quarters. Heat the vegetable oil inside a large saucepan over medium heat. Add some garlic clove and prepare for thirty seconds, or until aromatic, adding the onion and prepare for 4 minutes, stirring until soft. Boost the heat to medium–high, add some quartered tomato plants and prepare, stirring and mashing them for ten minutes, or until completely damaged lower and beginning to caramelise. Add some sauted shrimp paste and prepare, stirring, for just two minutes.
Stir in 190 ml (6 fl oz/ cup) from the reserved pork cooking liquid, provide the boil, adding the deep-fried pork belly, eco-friendly and red chillies, and also the reserved tomato halves. Prepare for several-4 minutes, or before the pork is warmed through. Add some remaining pork cooking liquid based on your chosen finish of dry or wet.
Transfer the binagoongan to some serving bowl, garnish with fried chilli leaves, if preferred, and serve with steamed grain.
Note
Binagoongan got its name in the principal flavoring component, fermented shrimp paste, referred to as bagoong alamang. Binagoongan is available in many forms. Like many ulam, for example adobo, it's prepared “wet” or “dry”, either soupy, or reduced with virtually no sauce. A vintage “wet” variation of binagoongan replaces the deep-fried pork (lechon kawali) used here with steamed soft pork and uses fresh shrimp paste instead of guisado bagoong (sauted shrimp paste, onion, garlic clove and tomato).
Recipes and pictures from 7000 Islands by Yasmin Newman, printed by Hardie Grant Books, rrp $49.95.