TRADITIONAL ADOBO (Pork in Vinegar and Soy Sauce)

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 ½ lbs pork shoulder or 1 ½ lbs pork butt , cut into 1-1/2" cubes
• 1⁄3; cup vinegar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 cloves garlic , minced
• 1 small bay leaf
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ½ cup water
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients except cooking oil in a pot and let stand for at least 30 minutes.
2. Simmer covered for 1 hour or until meat is tender.
3. Drain and reserve the sauce.
4. Heat cooking oil in a skillet.
5. Brown meat on all sides.
6. Transfer to a serving dish.
7. Pour off all remaining oil from skillet.
8. Add reserved sauce and cook for a minute or two scraping all browned bits sticking to pan.
9. Pour sauce over meat and serve.

Reviews

[sugar momma]

Very good. Next time I will thicken the sauce with some corn starch just before serving though.

[Doku]

The meat was great, but I preferred the leftovers. The difference was that I decided to add some corn starch to the sauce, and made a gavy out of it that stuck to the meat more.

[MaVernaRica]

My father finds the above recipe kinda sweet, so I changed the white sugar to brown sugar, add a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce (Mama Sita's Barbecue Marinade Sauce will also do the trick =), and season with more pepper and a tablespoon of chili flakes for a kick of good spicy sensation. I also doubled the sauce for almost a kilo of chicken because we love saucy adobo!

Adobo just keeps geeting more good when reheated!
Thanks for this great recipe guide!