ESTOFADO

Pork Estofado is another pork dish that is commonly

served by Filipinos. This is similar to Adobo and Patatim.

 Normally the pork cooked in a blend of soy sauce

 and vinegar with bananas. Others add potatoes,

 carrots or sausages.

Pork Estofado is a stewed pork dish served with

fried plantains. This pork recipe is comparable to

pork adobo but, the use of carrots and fried plantains

 provide distinction to this dish.
I like the idea of having plantains in pork and beef

dishes. Plantains or ���saging na saba��� help improve

the flavor of a dish and adds a little sweetness to it.

Take the beef pochero as an example: the sweetness

of the plantains blends well with the other ingredients

producing a great tasting dish. Sometimes, I also use

 plantains in Beef Nilaga to add more life to it.
Do you like the idea of using plantains (saba) in some

 of the dishes that you cook?
Try this Pork Estofado recipe and let me know your thoughts.

Pork Estofado is made up of pork stewed in soy

 sauce and vinegar, mixed with plantains or saging

 na saba (a type of banana used in many savory dishes)

that adds sweetness to it and really makes the dish

 more appetizing. Others add carrots and potatoes.

 Others used to fry the plantains first but I don't prefer

 doing that because for me, it'll just ruin the true

flavour of the banana.

Pork Estofado is a Filipino dish made out of pork stewed

 in a sweet soy sauce and vinegar gravy mixed with

 bananas and carrots, its taste is nearly a cross

between Adobo and Patatim. Though the name might

sound Spanish this is a Filipino dish that was just given

a Spanish name and the word Estofado means ���stewed���

 or ���pot roasted��� which describes the cooking process

 of this dish.

Like any other estofado around the world like in

Guatemala and Chile it is a meat stew in but instead

 of using beef and tomatoes which the Filipinos already

have in the form of Kaldereta and Afritada it uses pork,

 soy sauce and vinegar.

I guess this is one of the last popular Filipino recipes

 that I know of, there might be a few more coming

 but after 144 Filipino Dishes it will hard to remember

 what I missed. So definitely there will still be some

 re-posts as the photos of the first posts I made

 in this blog is not in par with the captured images

 today.  Though I had posted a lot of Filipino dishes

most of them are savoury, that means the future

 posts will be more on the sweet dessert and

snacks the Philippines have.

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