Tender pork, potatoes, carrots, and hot dogs in a rich tomato-based sauce. This pork menudo recipe is pure Filipino comfort food. You’ll need extra rice for this.
Servings 4servings
Course Main Course
Cuisine Filipino
Ingredients
1.5poundspork bellycut into small cubes
1 ½cupssoy sauce
2tablespoonslemon juice
Oilfor sautéing
1small onionminced
10clovesgarlicminced
2-3bay leaves
1 ½cupstomato sauce
1 ½cupswater
1medium carrotpeeled and cubed
1medium potatocubed
Fish sauce or saltto taste
Sugarto taste
Black pepperto taste
1red bell peppercubed
½cupgreen peas
2hot dogssliced
Instructions
In a bowl, combine pork belly, soy sauce, and lemon juice. Marinate for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, prep the vegetables - mince onion and garlic, peel and cube carrot and potato, and slice bell pepper and hot dogs.
Heat oil in a pan or pot over medium heat. Sauté the onion and garlic until fragrant.
Add pork and bay leaves. Cook until the pork is lightly browned.
Pour in the tomato sauce and water. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes, or until the pork is tender.
Add the potatoes and carrots. Simmer for about 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender. Add a little more water if the sauce thickens too much.
Taste and season with fish sauce or salt, sugar, and pepper.
Add bell peppers, peas, and hot dogs. Cook for another 3 to 4 minutes, until the peppers are tender.
