Menudo, is another comfort food that brings childhood memories. When we were kids, my mom owned this small food business. She offered dishes to her customers such as picadillo, dinuguan, kaldereta, sauted corned beef and menudo. So during lunch and dinner, my siblings and I can pick any viand that we wanted from our small carinderia. My siblings would picked picadillo while I preferred menudo. :)
I remembered we would helped mom chopped the onions and crushed the garlic she used in her cooking. That was the time I started to love cooking too. :)
Anyway, here is my simple Menudo recipe I learned from my mom.
You will need;
1/2k pork kasim, diced
1 cup diced pork liver
(marinte both pork and liver this also in soy sauce and pepper)
2-3 hotdogs sliced
2 cups pork broth
2 tablespoons vegetable or corn oil
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup cubed red ripe tomatoes
1/4 c. tomato sauce
1 green bell, diced
2 cups diced potatoes
1 carrots cut in cubes
2 tsp fish sauce
salt and pepper to taste
Then what you will do;
1. First fry the potato and carrot cubes, in batches, until the edges are lightly browned. Drain on paper towels and set aside.
2. Sauté onion, garlic and tomatoes then add pork then simmer uncovered, reduce the liquid to half.
3. Add the pork liver then mix, mix, mix.
4. Add tomato sauce, carrots, potatoes. Simmer stirring occasionally.
5. Then pour 1/2 cup pork broth. Season with salt.
6. Simmer for 10 more minutes.
7. Serve hot.
This is my entry for Food Friday. Happy FF day everyone!
