Pork Afritada Recipe
Pork Afritada is a Filipino pork stew in tomato base with hot dog, carrots, potatoes, green and red peppers.
Servings 4 people
Calories 301kcal
Ingredients
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 medium sized potatoes peeled and sliced diagonally
- 1 big carrot peeled and sliced diagonally
- ½ green bell pepper seeded and sliced diagonally
- ½ red bell pepper seeded and cut diagonally
- 3 hot dogs sliced diagonally
- 1 small onion minced
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 1 ½ pounds pork butt or pork shoulder cut into 2 inch x 1 inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- ½ can (8 oz ) can tomato sauce
- 1 cup water
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil over medium heat.
- Fry both potatoes and carrots at the same time. Flip both when one side turns light brown.
- Carrots will cook first. When it turns light brown on both sides, remove it from the pan. Drain the oil and transfer carrots in a plate lined with paper towel to absorb the excess oil. Do the same thing for all fried veggies. Set aside.
- When potatoes turns golden brown remove it from pan. Drain oil and set aside.
- Saute green and red pepper for 2 minutes. Don’t overcook to maintain its crispness. Drain oil and set aside.
- Remove some oil from pan leaving about 3 tablespoons.
- Saute hot dog for 2 minutes.
- Add onion and cook for 2 minutes.
- Toss in the garlic and cook till golden.
- Add fish sauce.
- Stir in pork and cook till light brown.
- Add tomato sauce. Mix well.
- Pour broth or water. Bring to a boil then lower heat.
- Simmer and cook pork until tender.
- Add the carrots and potatoes and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the green and red pepper. Mix and cook for 1 minute.
- Season with ground black pepper, fish sauce or salt whichever you prefer.
- Serve hot.
Nutrition
Calories: 301kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 991mg | Potassium: 742mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 2290IU | Vitamin C: 30.9mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 2.4mg