The Happy Home Cook: Instant Pot Pork Pata Tim

The Happy Home Cook: Instant Pot Pork Pata Tim

These days, in my American kitchen, I have very little time to put together a home-cooked Pinoy dish. But with the current favorite appliance, the Instant Pot, these chunks of meat cooked in less than an hour. The pork pieces were fall-off-the-bone tender and the sweet-salty, fragrant sauce swirling around was as marvelous as mom’s cooking used to be.

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The Happy Home Cook: Pork Humba

The Happy Home Cook: Pork Humba

Is it adobo?  Is it pata tim?  No, it’s pork humba. It is a pork dish popular in the Philippines.  It resembles the appearance of pork adobo, but replicates the sweet taste of pata tim.

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The Happy Home Cook: Paksiw Na Pata (Pork Leg Stew)

The Happy Home Cook: Paksiw Na Pata (Pork Leg Stew)

One popular way of cooking pata (pork leg) is by simmering it in vinegar and other spices.  The process is called paksiw. It is akin to the Chinese pata tim.

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The Happy Home Cook: Estofadong Pata

The Happy Home Cook: Estofadong Pata

Enjoy this sweet sour pork dish served with fried bananas.

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