Weekend Comfort Food: Pocherong Pata

Weekend is always spent with family. Most of the time we have scheduled work on weekends, so we maximize our time by spending a meal together every dinner. One of the things that we cook is Pocherong Pata. It is similar to Lauya, but we call it Pochero, just like how my aunt calls it when she handed me over the recipe of this dish.

Pocherong Pata

Ingredients:

½ kilo pata/pork knuckels

1/4 cup fish sauce

½ cup chopped onions

4 ripe tomatoes diced

4 cloves garlic

¼ cup oil

4 cups of water

1 cup sweet potato

3 bananas (saba)

1 cabbage head

2 green chilis

salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Saute onions, garlic and tomatoes until wilted. Add water. Bring to boil

2. Add pata. Season with patis. Boil until tender.

3. Add sweet potato and saba. Cook until tender.

4. Season with salt and pepper. Add cabbage until half cooked.

5. Arrange vegetables and meat in a bowl. Pour broth before serving.

                To balance the sweetness of the dish, you may serve it with ginisang bagoong alamang or daing.  Vegetables like green beans can also be added to the dish. Happy Weekend J