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Pork and chicken adobo with sweet peanut butter sauce

Pork and chicken adobo with sweet peanut butter sauce
Cook your pork and chicken adobo as usual, and pour in diluted sweetened peanut butter during the last few minutes of cooking. The result is a rich and subtly sweet stew with all the sour-salty-garlicky-peppery goodness of traditional Filipino adobo.
Cook time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Gising-gising with crispy pork belly

Gising-gising with crispy pork belly
A spicy dish from the Philippines! Winged beans, finger chilies, okra, squash and shrimp paste are cooked in coconut milk, and chopped crispy pork belly is added toward the end.
Cook time: 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Filipino pork adobo (slow cooker recipe)

Slow cooker Filipino pork adobo with rice, egg, tomato slices and fried saba bananas
Save yourself the trouble of waiting overnight while your adobo sits in the fridge to allow the flavors to blend and deepen. Cooking adobo in the slow cooker delivers the same results at a much shorter time.
Cook time: 4 hours hours
Servings: 4 people

Chinese red-braised pork belly (hong shao rou)

Chinese red-braised pork belly (hong shao rou)
Pork belly slow cooked with soy sauce, rice wine, onion, ginger, garlic, cloves, peppercorns and star anise. Serve with rice for a delicious meal.
Cook time: 1 hour hour 50 minutes minutes
Servings: 3 people

Samgyeopsal-inspired pan-grilled pork belly

Samgyeopsal -inspired pan-grilled pork belly
With the flavors you'd expect from authentic samgyeopsal-gui, the cooking procedure is simplified to ensure that the pork slices are cooked to perfect tenderness even without the traditional tabletop grill.
Cook time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

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