Kulinarya Cooking Club June 2011 Theme--White Food

For this "marry" month of June, our hosts Adora and Diona chose white food as our theme. Any food that is white or off-white, or white food such as rice or noodles with toppings or food with white edible wrapper will do. I have been thinking of making ginataan (cooked in coconut milk) but I've done that here on my blog, ditto for rice or noodles with toppings and same goes for white edible wrapped food (lumpia etc.) So I decided to choose an iconic Filipino dish but done in a manner that would make it white.

Adobo is usually cooked with vinegar and soy sauce which gives it the usual brown color. I came across adobo that is white or Adobong Puti when I was living in Singapore and one of my flatmates cooked white Lamb Adobo which was heavenly! And so I decided Adobong Puti would be my dish for this month's White Food theme.

ADOBONG PUTI

Pork (adobo cut) 1/4 kilo

Garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 5 pieces

Bay leaves, dried 2 pieces

Cane Vinegar 1/3 cup

Pinakurat Vinegar 1 tablespoon

Water enough to cover the meat

Ground Pepper

Salt

Patis (Fish Sauce)

Put all ingredients in a pot and cook over medium heat until meat is tender. Do not stir until boiling or the vinegar will taste raw. Water may be added if it boils down too quickly and the meat is not yet tender, I did this about 2 times. I cooked my meat for 1 hour. And seasoned it with salt and patis according to taste.

I cooked the liquid to almost dry because I want my adobo to be on the oily side. Cooking the liquid down will render some of the fat from the meat to come out and give the adobo a nice golden color.

Thank you to Adora and Diona for hosting this month's Kulinarya theme. I enjoyed exploring this other side of adobo. It really tasted delicious and not at all vinegary as I was thinking it might be.

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