Garlic-Thyme-Pepper Crusted Pork.

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GARLIC-THYME-PEPPER CRUSTED PORK
(Herbed & Spiced Oven “Broasted” Pork Belly)
First, why use the term “BROASTED”?
It’s the combination (portmanteau) of the words: BRoil and tOASTED.
The system of cooking is broiling – direct heat applied on top
with the use of the top heating rods and toasted for I utilized
the ever reliable…oven toaster, which I always summon to duty
in majority of my “innovated” recipes.
Something new for a pork belly prep. Instead of plain deep frying
and/or boiling then frying, meat is initially pressure cooked then broasted.
(pressure cooking tenderizes meat in shorter time and lets it absorb flavor enhancers present thereat
while toastering enhances “burnt” aroma, taste
and the much needed “eye appeal” for the dish.
INGREDIENTS:
MEAT:
½ kilo fully cleaned, deboned skin-on square rectangular or square “liempo”
(pork belly), sliced neatly 1 inch thick and 4-6” long, prick sides with knife
for flavor penetration while pressure cooking.
PRESSURE COOKING MIX:
enough tap water to cover top of all sliced pork
15 grams coarse salt
10 cloves crushed garlic
3 grams ground black pepper
2 medium white onion, sliced
BROASTING MIX:
15 ml. EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
30 grams cracked black pepper
5 cloves fresh finely chopped garlic
3 grams dried thyme
15 ml. “patis” (fish sauce) (this gives nice flavor I will bet)
PROCEDURES:
1.Sliced pork and all ingredients of the pressure cooking mix unto
pressure cooker, whistling nozzle attached, start with medium heat.
When it starts to whistle, pressure cook for 45 minutes.
When done, put below faucet and run tap water until whistling stops.
Remove nozzle, open lid, remove and set aside and let cool tender slices.
2. Pre-heat oven toaster ensuring top rods are the ones ON.
3. Mix and tumble well cracked black pepper, finely chopped garlic and dried thyme.
4. Rub “patis” on all sides of pork. Massage a bit. Let dry for a moment.
5. Rub EVOO on pork. Cover skin of pork with pepper-garlic-thyme blend.
Wedge unto highest top slot of toaster and broast for 8-12 minutes per side.
Color, aroma, burnt state and desired outcome will dictate your above broasting time.
6. Garnish and serve.
I like mine dipped in pineapple based, fresh pepper blendered hot sauce.

Create your own SISIG. Enjoy it 6 ways: as is, with rice, make into Roll, Crepe, Empanada or wrap in lettuce. 

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“SISIG”
“Sisig” (see’ seeg) is an original Filipino recipe started by folks
from the country’s northern part, Pampanga.
Often served as appetizer, on as is plain meat in sizzling plate,
as food to go along with beer, wine or liquor.
Modifications introduced by different regions rendered the delicacy
the status creating it a main course to go with rice meal.
To date, none that I know of, this preparation is somewhat similar or present in other countries.
Reason: the original recipe calls for the use of “char-grilled boneless pork mask” which,
I believe, is not at all sold out there.If yes, then great let’s proceed.My innovations: the use of other pork cut for lesser fat content
but still juicier & more tender to bite, the use of ingredients’ blend
other than those used in the original formula and
the technological sequence of preparation,
all contributing to a well rounded taste complemented by a different type of presentation
…in rolls, crepe or “empanada”.

Simple procedure attaining excellent taste and thereabout optimized
due to chronological production sequence.

So flattered am I when this innovation was actually approximated
(trying very hard) by no less than 5 restaurants in the Metro.

Smokey, vinegar-y & lemon-ly acidic, piquant with hints of onion, red cayenne and
cracked black pepper while crackling sound of seared pork skin fills your mouth
every tablespoonful encounter.
Highly recommended as “antipasto” for your cold ones.

And, again, I use the grammage system of prep by weight
not the volumetric cups & teaspoons.
Pound the weighing scale to your tabletop once more.

Servings: 20-25 X 50gram serving
Prep time: 45 minutes
Grilling time:  30 minutes
Total time:  1 hour 15 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
MEAT:
1 kilo skin-on pork mask if available
OR
1 kilo skin-on picnic shoulder (“kasim”)
¼ kilo lightly boiled chicken liver (semi cooked). Mash to a paste state. Set aside.
FLAVOR ENHANCERS:
Cane vinegar     70 ml.
Fine salt          5 grams
Cracked black pepper      2 grams
1 bulb large white onion finely chopped. Set aside ½.
1 clove garlic crushed. Set aside.
2 pcs “labuyo” (bird’s eye chilies) finely chopped.
soy sauce  50 ml.
palm oil        15 ml.
GRILLING & SERVING MEDIA:
griller
charcoal
Your OWN ROLL, CREPE SKINS or EMPANADA WRAPPERS

ROLL, CREPE & EMPANADA RECIPES:
Check out this PIZZA CRUST RECIPE by MELY MARAVILLA here:
http://melyskitchen.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/how-to-make-pizza-crust.html
and will make our OWN ROLL, CREPE & EMPANADA WRAPPERS:

1.    Using Mely’s recipe, just remove the YEAST and make your dough THINNER
…this will be your ROLL.
2.    Much much thinner, YEAST REMOVED and with 600 ml. evaporated milk,
60 grams butter and 8 pieces beaten eggs added to Mely’s recipe
(this will be like the consistency of a pancake flour blend-a viscous fluid):
and this will be for your crepe (or KREP).
Unto flat frying pan, pour 30 ml. of mix and flatten in a round-circular motion by a small rolling pin.
Brown a bit and there you have a crepe.
3.     Of Mely’s PIZZA CRUST RECIPE, get 100 grams dough,
dusting with little flour every now and then, flatten well to make it round.
This will be your Empanada wrapper.

PROCEDURES:
1.    De-hair and clean well meat.
Boil to “bite-friendly” tenderness but not to the point of disintegration.
2.    In fiery red charcoal, while tossing and tumbling boiled meat as needed,
grill enough to sear or turn skin dark brown.
3.    Slice and cut into 4 pieces per square inch. Set aside.
4.     In a suitable frying pan, heat palm oil.
Add in crushed garlic, toss until brown, dump the ½ chopped onion-mix and tumble until translucent.
Remove or strain cooked solids. Set aside this “flavored oil”.
5.    In a bowl, in this sequence and while tossing constantly,
mix cut meat with chicken liver paste, toss well then pour in vinegar,
soy sauce, salt, black and “labuyo”. Mix well.
6.    In the same frying pan with “flavored oil” pour in meat mixture
and lightly heat tumbling well to avoid sticking to bottom of pan.
7.    Remove pan from heat and lastly, add in the other ½ chopped onion. Tumble.
8.    In still live charcoal or at direct fire from gas stove,
heat very lightly YOUR ROLL until little brown spots appear.
Lay flat unto plate and pour in 50 grams “Sisig”.
Add any combination veggies (cabbage & carrots etc.) you wish as ADD-ONs.
Roll as shown in picture. Cut into 2-3 pieces if desired.
Garnish. Serve.

OR, while heating YOUR CREPE in flat cooking ware, add in your “Sisig” 
and add-on veggies, roll as in picture. Serve.

OR, lay flat YOUR ROUND EMPANADA WRAPPER, fill in with 30-50 grams “Sisig”,
FOLD and cut to HALF-MOON effect…FRY…PRESTO!
You will be happy to serve your EMPANADA SISIG.

Gramp’s Salad. (…just a term. Also designed for young ones)

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GRAMP’S SALAD
Constantly communicating and exchanging ideas
on just right & proper ingredients’ usages
to Chef Ma, a culinary professor, down mid part of archipelago, in Visayas.
Had given her some recommendations on the kinds of
ingredients, food grade chemicals & preservatives to be used in:
sauces, cooked canned Filipino per-serve recipes and bottled-flavored iced teas.
An extra perk, in exchange for my recommendations,
she developed a “super easy & quick to prepare veggies salad”
dedicating the apt nomenclature to me:
“GRAMP’s SALAD”
Simple as they are, I adjusted some ingredients,
removed un-needed ones and introduced “quick blanching” into veggies.
“Quick boiling water blanching” does not take away crispness,
it, in fact, retains, & enhances the green color of veggies
while acting as “bactericidal” medium (killing bacteria)
that may be present in raw ones as amoeba.
Thus, “amoebiasis”, in big essence, is prevented.
And I was excited to take snaps of it…so here:
INGREDIENTS:
1.    8-10 pieces of processed meat product you wish.
Slice into strips and fry to your desired done-ness. Set aside.
2.    1 medium broccoli (stalks included) cut to bite size
3. 4-6 leaves of sliced lavander cabbage
4. 4-6 whole leaves of green cabbage – 2 to serve as “bed” & 2 sliced
5. 4 whole leaves of lettuce (any type) – 2 also to serve as “bed” & 2 sliced
6. 1 small carrot – julienned
7. 2 cloves crushed garlic
8. 5ml. EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
9. 20 grams oyster sauce
10. 5 grams salt
11.2 grams black pepper
12. 15 ml. tap water for dressing
13. 250 ml. tap water for blanching
PROCEDURES:

1). Saute crushed garlic in heated EVOO.
2). Pour in 5ml. tap water & oyster sauce.
Toss. Simmer. Set aside.
3). In a pan pour in 250 ml. water. Add 1/2 of salt. Boil.
4). In strainer gather all veggies and
blanch in boiling water for just 1 minute.
5). Create “bed” of blanched whole veggie leaves in plate.
6). Pour on top sliced vegetables.
7). Top with fried meat strips.
8). Dress with simmered oyster sauce.
9. Again & again, best enjoyed with loved one.And so, beside lightly lit candle, pairing red or white wine,
your night will spell a very healthy simple dinner.
Not filling.
But satisfying.
Utterly memorable.