Saturday, July 19, 2014

proud to be Filipino food

Lechon, one of the most favorite food of Filipino, not just Filipino but also other foreign tourist who visited Philippines. Among the varieties the Cebu lechon is the most delicious. Lechon is the Filipino version of roasted pig. Here are ways on how to cook lechon:( image and recipe copied in: http://bizbuddies.hubpages.com/hub/The-Original-Cebu-Lechon-Recipe)
Igredients:
1 whole native pig (live weight 18 – 20 kilos)
salt and black pepper to taste
soy sauce

For the glaze:
1 liter of Sprite

For the stuffing:

10 bundles lemon grass (tanglad)
1/4 cup star anise
6 pieces of laurel or bay leaves (cut into small parts)
5 cups of crushed garlic
2 kilos green onion leave
8 pieces of halved saba bananas. (half-cooked thru boiling)

Instructions:
First, shave hair follicles of the pig and remove the innards. Rinse the pig and make sure there’s no more lumps of blood inside the stomach.
Then rub the insides with salt and pepper including the body.
Rub a little soy sauce on the inside belly of the pig.
Stuff the belly with saba bananas, anise, green onion leaves, crushed garlic and laurel leaves.
Next, stack the lemon grass the center stomach, and stitched the belly, making sure that no ingredients slip out.
Skewer the pig with a mid-size bamboo and split roast over hot charcoal. Do not put the charcoal directly underneath the belly of the pig but over both sides, slowly churning the pig roast.
While slowly roasting the pig, glaze it from time to time with sprite using a sponge. This will make the skin extra crispy.
Roast for a couple of hours until the meat is tender. Do not overcooked.

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