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Pork Menudo Recipe

Pork Menudo is a traditional stew made with pork, liver, potato, carrots, green and red bell pepper in tomato based sauce.
Course Main Course, Stew
Cuisine Asian, Filipino
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 8
Calories 535kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds pork cubed (pork shoulder, pork butt or country style ribs)
  • ½ pound liver (pig liver) cubed
  • 5 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 large yellow onion chopped
  • 2 large tomato finely chopped
  • 2 large potato diced
  • 1 medium carrot diced
  • 1 small green bell pepper deseeded and diced
  • 1 small red bell pepper deseeded and diced
  • 3 hotdogs sliced diagonally
  • 1 cup water
  • ¼ cup raisins
  • 1 cup garbanzos drain liquid
  • 1 teaspoon annatto powder (achuete)
  • 2 tablespoons fish sauce
  • fish sauce or salt to taste
  • ground pepper to taste
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
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Instructions

  • In a bowl, combine pork and liver. Mash with your hands for 2 minutes. Set aside.
  • In a non-stick skillet, heat oil over medium heat.
  • Fry potatoes and carrots separately until almost cook. Remove from skillet and set aside.
  • Fry green and red bell pepper for a minute. Remove from skillet and set aside.
  • Fry hotdog for 2 minutes. Remove and set aside.
  • On the same skillet, saute onion until soft.
  • Add garlic. Cook until golden.
  • Add tomatoes and cook for about 5 minutes or until soft. Lower heat between medium low and cover skillet with lid.
  • Mash tomatoes with kitchen utensil.
  • Stir-in annatto powder and 2 tablespoons of fish sauce.
  • Toss-in pork and liver. Cover and cook until it releases its juice. Add water and simmer for about 40 minutes or until pork is cooked.
  • Season with salt or fish sauce and ground pepper.
  • Toss-in hotdog, potatoes, carrots, garbanzos and raisins. Cook for 3 minutes.
  • Stir-in red and green pepper. Turn off heat after a minute.
  • Serve hot with white rice. Enjoy!

Notes

  1. Easier Way: Skip frying potatoes, carrots, hotdogs, green and red pepper. Follow the steps of sauteing the onion, garlic, tomatoes, then after about 30 minutes of cooking pork and liver add the potatoes, carrots and hotdogs. Meat and vegetables will cook at the same time. Then add the garbanzos, raisins, green and bell pepper and cook for about 2 minutes.
  2. Potatoes, carrots, green and red pepper are crisp when pan fried instead of adding it to cook with the pork but it is up to your preference. It is still decadent even done the easier way.
  3. If using roma tomatoes, use 4 large ones. To me, the more tomatoes the better and finely chopped.
  4. You can add ½ cup frozen green peas at the same time you add the bell pepper.
  5. Add another ½ cup water if you want more sauce. Do this while cooking pork and liver.

Nutrition

Calories: 535kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 34g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 167mg | Sodium: 574mg | Potassium: 973mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 6849IU | Vitamin C: 43mg | Calcium: 54mg | Iron: 4mg