To those who are not familiar with the dish. Pork Humba is a sweet pork dish. It looks like the very popular adobo dish but is a bit sweeter and because of its pineapple juice and the salted black beans ingredients I can say that it is wonderfully different than the rest.
Pork belly, pork hocks, and pork ham are the 3 most common pig parts used in this type of dish. I followed the instructions that I encountered on YouTube here:
But what I would do better next time is I'll be using my favorite brand of Pineapple tidbits, it is I think deliciously smoother to the taste than just a pineapple juice and I think the quality of salted black beans can really play a big part to our finished product.
So here are the ingredients:
2 lbs pork belly
1 cup Pineapple juice
1 large onion diced
5 cloves garlic minced
2 tablespoons salted black beans
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 ½ tablespoons brown sugar
½ cup dried banana blossoms
2 pieces dried bay leaves
1 teaspoon whole peppercorn
and on the cooking instructions:
- Heat the cooking pot then brown the pork belly
- Add the onions and garlic and cook until the onions are soft
- Put-in the soy sauce, peppercorn, bay leaves
- Pour-in the pineapple juice and let boil. Simmer until the pork is tender (add water as needed)
- Add the vinegar and wait for the mixture to re-boil. Simmer for 3 minutes
- Spoon-in the salted black beans and brown sugar then simmer for 5 minutes
- Add the dried banana blossoms and simmer for 5 to 8 minutes
- Transfer to a serving plate and serve. Share and enjoy!
Here is when I prepared the ingredients:
Then I started to put in the meat in a pre-heated pot:
I am about to finish cooking:
The first serving fresh from the pot:
As I put it on the table ready to serve with rice:
