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Humba Recipe (Bisaya Version)

Pork belly with black beans and banana blossoms stewed in soy sauce and lemon lime soda. This is a popular Filipino dish in the southern parts of the Philippines.

Difficulty Expert
Time 120 min
Servings 10
Ingredients 12
Steps 10
Humba Recipe (Bisaya Version)
Filipino Updated 1/30/2021

Ingredients

Measured from the catalog payload.

  • 4 lbs pork belly cubed
  • 1 piece knorr pork cube
  • 3 cups clear soft drink
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 ounces banana blossom
  • 2 tablespoons salted black bean
  • 3 tablespoons white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup soy sauce
  • 1 piece onion chopped
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 6 cloves garlic crushed and chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed peppercorn

Instructions

10 cooking steps

  1. Heat a wok or pan. Sear pork belly until it turns brown and enough oil gets extracted from the fat. Remove the pork from the wok. Set aside.
  2. Heat around 3 tablespoons of oil. Sauté garlic and onion until the onion softens.
  3. Add the pork back into the wok and pour-in soy sauce. Sauté for 1 minute.
  4. Add vinegar. Continue sautéing until liquid dries-up.
  5. Pour clear soft drinks into the wok. Cover and let boil.
  6. Add crushed peppercorn. Adjust heat to low. Continue boiling for 35 minutes.
  7. Add banana blossoms and salted black beans. Cover the wok and continue cooking until the pork gets tender. Note: you can add water if needed.
  8. Add brown sugar. Stir. Cook for 1 minute.
  9. Transfer to a serving plate. Serve with warm rice.
  10. Share and enjoy!

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Main Course, Pork adobo, beef stew, humba Public recipe Revision 1