Pork asado
Ingredients :
a 1 to 1.5 kg. piece of roasting pork (shoulder or loin), preferably with a thin layer of fat on one side
3/4 c. of dark soy sauce
2 pcs. of star anise
2 laurel leaves
12 peppercorns
4-6 tbsps. of sugar
1 whole garlic
1 whole onion
1 tsp. of hoisin sauce
4 tbsps. of cooking oil
water
2-3 tsps. of tapioca or corn starch
Cooking procedure :
Prick the meat with a fork in several places.
Heat the cooking oil in a large heavy pan. Lightly brown the pork, rolling it in hot oil to brown all sides evenly. Pour enough water to reach 3/4 the height of the pork. Pour in the soy sauce and add the rest of the ingredients. What you’re looking for is an agreeable balance between the saltiness of the soy sauce and the sweetness of the sugar. So, use more or less of either ingredient to suit your taste. Simmer the pork, fat side up, for an hour to an hour and a half, depending on its thickness.
Lift the pork out of the liquid, place on a plate and cool to room temperature, Cut into 1/4 inch slices and arrange on a serving platter.
Strain the braising liquid. Reheat. Dissolve the starch in 1/4 cup of water. Pour into the braising liquid and cook, stirring, until thickened. Stir in the hoisin sauce and stir well to blend.
Pour the sauce over the sliced pork and serve.
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hello there! can u pls. share the complete ingredients and how to cook this so called pork asado?
keep it up
alam mo sassy cook itong asado na to may it be pork or chicken.. I have not ventured my experiments on this level yet.
star aniseed ha? did not think about this being used to pinoy cooking
Eden, there’s a link to page 2. It’s all there.
We call it sanque, actually, Sha. Come to think of it, I don’t know of any other recipe that uses star anise except asado and its variations.
I saw Delia (Smith) cook something like this which she says she learnt in Japan. I bought the star anise but never got to use it as I forgot the recipe!!! Buset na busy life.
Anyway salamat at nagpost ka hehehe Hindi ko alam asado pala tawag dun!
Hi sassy,
The meat is miticulously cut “hating kapatid”.
Just to let you know that asado could also be Portuguese! we write it with double s - assado.
regards
from Portugal
LOL Auee, time to buy star anise again?
Relly, I’m meticulous in that way, actually. I like equality.
Maria, thanks for that info.
Sassy, like all the recipes I got here, the asado was perfect!
I’m really really happy hehehe
Nandaya nga lang ako, I didn’t have hoisin sauce, I made do without it. Instead nilagyan ko ng sesame oil para mas aromatic.
My hubby says “parang sa siopao”, it was meant to be a compliment.
Great, Auee! Before I discovered hoisin sauce, I made do without it too.
Pardon my poor English because we do not speak it in my country. I believe you can understand too. I plan to travel Asia and maybe the Philippines so i look for information on the Internet. Now I know what food to try in the Philippines because of good information in your page. I be sure not to order food with the Spanish names because of many strange surprises.
hello there…i just want to ask where can i buy the star anise? Thank you.
Yeah, Luis, because Spanish dishes have been Filipinized over the centuries. It’s the Philippines, after all, and our native produce are not the same as those of Spain.
Vham, at the supermarket, dried spices section. You’ll also find star anise in most vegetable stalls in wet markets.
Thanks Connie! More power on your website..This would be a great help for me once i followed my husband in U.K. to cook for him:) God bless!
Hi,
This was my favorite dish when I was in college in the University Belt. Thank you so much for the recipe as I can cook this myself now here in Britain. Again, thanks for this brilliant website. Mabuhay!!!
I purchased a slab of porkchops about 12 inches long (the pork loins with the bone still intack) last week intending to use it for noche buena but failed to find a recipe which calls for this cut of meat. All recipes I found calls for the loins. Coul’d I use it for this ASADO recipe?
…Maybe you could suggest a recipe that uses this particular cut of meat.
THANKS so much!!!
Renato, you can use it for asado. Or you may try the humba recipe.