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  • Friday, April 18, 2008

    Recipe: Humba

    A friend asked for this one. She had somehow tasted the dish during Ganda's birthday.
    So here it is...

    Ingredients:

    1 kilo pork belly (cubed)
    1/2 can black beans
    4 tablespoon brown sugar
    4 tablespoon vinegar
    2 packets laurel leaves ( dahon paminta)
    1 packet banana blossom
    1 packet hebi (dried shrimp)
    1/4 head minced garlic
    soy sauce to taste

    Procedure:
    1. Put pork belly in a pan.
    2. Heat until some of its oil had been squeezed out by heat (in short, pakupsan, hehehe), do the ukay always.
    3. Do not overcook the pork (very important). Remove pan from heat.
    4. Put the (slightly) pinakupsan into a pot (including the expressed oil).
    5. Add all other ingredients. Mix well.
    6. Heat and simmer for 15 min with occasional mixing.
    7. Add soy sauce and/or more sugar to taste.
    8. Simmer for about half an hour, occasionally mixing to prevent pork from sticking to the pot.

    Note: It is important not to add water. It ruins my recipe... Hehehe...
    The main difference with other Humba recipe is the pakupos part, others just put water and boil the pork until tender. When doing the pakupos, do not overdo it, do not let all parts turn brown as if you want to eat it already. The correct time to remove the pinakupsan from heat is when it just turns brown with some expressed oil already.

    Kon ma-overdo, hunit ang panit inig kitkit (hehehe, nahutdan ko ug iningles...)

    I learned this recipe from my Mama way back in my high school/college days...
    It, still is, one of my favorites...