Recipe: Appetizing Filipino style pork and vegestable stew (Lauya)

Filipino style pork and vegestable stew (Lauya). Great recipe for Filipino style pork and vegestable stew (Lauya). on this dish pork nuckles is commonly use but you can subtitute it with other cuts or with beef just add pork or beef bones to keep its original taste because the bones gives that extra porky or beefy savory taste to it. Add the onions, garlic, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, peppercorns and bay leaves. Taste for seasoning, add salt as needed.

Lauya is basically a counterpart of the tagalog nilaga dish and obviously the word "lauya" in Ilokano is "nilaga" in tagalog or in English which is "boiled". This is a unique recipe from Palawan, specifically from the natives of Cuyo which was once the provincial capital. The original Laoya uses pork and a kind of red bean known as lumabong common in Northern Palawan. You can have Filipino style pork and vegestable stew (Lauya) using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Filipino style pork and vegestable stew (Lauya)

1. You need 1-2 kg of pork knuckle.
2. It's of if you dont want pork knuckles just use other cuts.
3. You need of and add 2 to 4 pcs of pork leg bones.
4. Prepare 3 of medium potatoes.
5. Prepare 3 of eggplants.
6. It's 3-4 stalks of chinese cabbages.
7. You need 2 of green chilli.
8. You need 4-5 pcs of star anise.
9. Prepare 1 stalk of green beans.
10. You need 1 tbsp of anatto seeds.
11. You need 1 of large red onion.
12. Prepare of salt.
13. Prepare of pepper.
14. Prepare of sugar.
15. You need of fish sauce.

Given what is available in the Philippines, leafy vegetables, jackfruit, and plantains accompany the pork. Great recipe for Marinated pork chops on soy sauce (Bistek). This one of the Filipino dish i love to cook and i love to putting that saucy goodness on my rice its a little similar to beef brisket but they're both deliciuos. You can adjust the ingridient if its too much for you.

Filipino style pork and vegestable stew (Lauya) step by step

1. Clean and boil the pork knuckles until tender. you can also use any pork cuts just make sure you add pork bones. here i used presure cooker to make the process much faster.
2. Remove the scums above it then add the onions and potatoes then simmer until the potatoes are tender or soft enough.
3. When the meat and potatoes are tender i transfer the broth on another pot then with out the meat and potatoes because it might get overcook. so here add the eggplants, green chilli, star anise and string beans.
4. On a small bowl add some of the broth on anatto seeds to activate it. This will give the dish some color.
5. When all vegestables are cooked add the anatto seed extract, the pork and potatoes then season with sugar about 4 tbsp of it and 1 tbsp of fish sauce, salt and pepper and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.
6. Turn off the heat then add the chinese cabbages and let it sit for 5 minutes.
7. Serve and enjoy your food.

Traditionally, Filipino soup dishes are clear and based on chicken, pork, or beef. A similar soup is called Bulalo, wherein beef shanks with bone and marrow are used instead of pork. Chicken soups such as Chicken Tinola is also a favorite because it is packed with nutrients brought about by the ingredients. Pork and Potatoes in Soy Sauce (Adobo) This is one of the most famous dish here on my hometown also one of my favorites because its just easy to cook but pack with meaty goodness. Aside from pork that i used on this recipe you can use chicken or beef. a little trivia "adobo" means to marinate or marinated meat.