Pochero My Way

My hubby has been bugging me to prepare pochero for him. I am no good on following instructions specially recipes. I am quite used to hand me downs recipe where measurement is always to taste (tantyahan ba). To give in to his whims, I brave the net and look for pochero recipes. I found some and revised my own recipe. Here it is:

Ingredients:
(keep in my mind that this recipe is for half kilo of pork, if you have less eaters, you can trim down the ingredients that would suit 1/4 kilo of pork, and if you have the whole neighborhood to feed, just adjust the ingredients, math baby, just ratio and proportions)

• Pork cubes (half kilo)
• Banana (saba) about 3 pieces or more if you like, cut it in three (slanting) or whatever as long as you can eat it
• Pechay 5 to 10 stalks (in our case isang tali)
• Cabbage, medium size, cut into 4 parts
• string beans, about 10 or more stalks (cut into two)
• Potatoes, 2 medium size, cut into 4 parts each
• Onion springs, 5 stalks 9or isang tali)
• 2 small onions, one sliced, the other one cut into 4
• garlic, 2 cloves, crushed
• peppercorn (about a teaspoon or less)
• optional: green peas, garbanzos, pork and beans (about half cup or more if you like)
• tomato sauce about 200 grams (or one small del monte pack)
• about 2 tablespoon fish salt or patis
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Preparations:

1. Boil the pork cubes until tender, then add the onions (the one cut into 4 parts), add peppercorn and spring onions. Let it boil for another 5 minutes
2. Meanwhile, fry the potato and banana, whichever way you like, you can first fry the banana then the potato or vice versa, it doesn’t matter that much.
3. While doing so, add the veggies (cabbage first then string beans and after a while the pechay) to the pork.
4. After frying the banana and the potato, reduce oil then saute garlic and onion and fish salt. Add the pork and the tomato sauce.
5. When the veggies change color or when it becomes more vibrant, remove it form the pot.
6. Cover the pork and reduce heat (very low), leave it for about 5 minutes (go check your blog or mine for updates).
7. After commenting on my blog, put the optional ingredients, you can have it all or just one or two.. as for me, I always put pork and beans for the kids (sweeter twist). Then add the potato and banana, add some water ( preferably from the pot where you tenderized the pork, about a cup). Let it boil.
8. Add the veggies and serve with steaming rice. YUM!

I am also no good on passing down recipe so in case you tried it tell me if it’s easy to follow 🙂
Happy eating!