Instant Pot Pork Menudo

By: Vicente Perez

 

In Las Vegas, there is Guy Fieri’s Kitchen in Linq Hotel and there is Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen in Caesar’s Palace. Alas, there is also the very modest trial and error cook who has a kitchen thousands of miles away from Chicago , right in the west — in Eastern Vegas which is my very own kitchen.

I call it my own, my very own- MY VEGAS KITCHEN. After cooking endlessly with my SaladMaster cooking gear, my second hand Instant Pot, my conventional oven and my KitchenAid, I braised, sauteed, broiled, baked, slow cooked and have tried recipes from family’s secrets, old cook books and online non stop” googling” every single day .

I cook with wild abandon like nobody’s watching or rather nobody’s tasting. My audiences are readers of this paper and my thousands and thousands of Facebook friends who would not dare judge me critically ( I wonder why) but who are probably mercifully liking my postings because of my perseverance. In the meantime, I go for the most traditional recipes and get so challenged with the most fearful Filipino recipes like dinuguan, sisig, papaitan. I end up triumphant because for some reason or luck, I do get by with quite delicious dishes.

I do hope to do Youtube but this will require not only a lot of camera work and editing but also a lot of COURAGE. A youtube cooking will restrict my wild abandon ways of cooking because this time, the proverbial Orwellian “Big Brother” is looking over.

For starters of MY VEGAS KITCHEN, let me share a very traditional Filipino dish which probably came from Mexico – the all time favorite in regular dinners or in grand fiestas -PORK MENUDO. This time the difference is that I did not not cook it stove top.

This time I used the very popular INSTANT POT . So the title of this recipe is:

INSTANT POT PORK MENUDO

INGREDIENTS:
1 pounds pork belly and
1 pound pork shoulder cut in 1-inch cubes
3 Tbs soy sauce
2 TBs oyster sauce
2 Tablespoons cooking oil
4 cloves garlic minced
1 medium-sized onion chopped
1 cup pork broth
1 can tomato sauce
4 medium-sized potatoes cut into 1-inch cubes
1 carrot peeled, cut into
1-inch cubes
1 large red or green bell pepper cut into 1-inch cube pieces
1/4 cup bread crumbs plain flavor
1 can garbanzos liquid drained
1 can green peas salt and pepper to season
2 tbs lemon or lime juice

RECIPE

Marinate the pork with the soy sauce and lemon juice for an hour

INSTANT POT COOKING

Saute. the garlic and onions after clicking sautee function. Add the pork cubes together with the marinade and sautee further for 6 to 8 minutes

Hit Cancel to turn off the Saute function.

Add the broth and the tomato sauce. Add the potatoes, carrots, bell pepper and bread crumbs. Close and lock the lid. Set valve to sealing.Press manual/high p ressure and set timer to cook for 20 minutes.

When timer buzzes, click Cancel. Do a Natural Pressure Release .Open lid carefully after steam is finished.

Add the garbanzos and green peas. Click Sautee. Sautee for another 4 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.

Enjoy a very tender and delish mouthwatering pork menudo with steaming white or brown rice . Email me at Vic@philtimes.net if you want a stove top recipe or if you have any special request.Till next ish . I will prepare a Filipino dish and another dish from another culture. Enjoy your St Patrick festivities and be safe.