Greetings!
It has been a busy week for me because the classes for the school year 2022-2023 has already started last Monday. Still, I found a way to cook for my family for today's lunch. And today's recipe is Sitaw Adobo which is one of the favorite dishes here in our country. This dish is very simple yet very tasty and by adding a little amount of pork the taste will be brought to another level.
I have known this dish since my youngest years back in the 1980s. In its simplest form, this dish contains only string beans, cooking oil, onion or garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and salt. But the version that I cooked for today's lunch contains pork, ground black pepper, and bay leaves. Most of the time, in the 1980s I see my father and my eldest sister not adding ground black pepper, bay leaves, and ground pork to the dish probably because of the availability of the ingredients.
I learned that cooking this dish needs a lot of stirring to make the string beans very soft and the soup will be more tasty if reduced by more than a half of the water added.
Wihtout further ado, here is the video on how I cooked this dish...
Ingredients
The ingredients for the dish are String Beans (sitaw), soy sauce, cooking oil, onion, garlic, pork, ground black pepper, bay leaves (which I forgot to show in the video), and salt (to taste). If garlic, ground black pepper, bay leaves, and pork are not available they can be omitted but I highly recommend that you add them.
String Beans (Sitaw)
Garlic
Onion
Ground black pepper
White vinegar (about 100 ml)
Cooking oil
A pinch of salt
Soy Sauce
Pork (about 250 grams)
Preparation
Preparing this dish is very simple, you only need to slice the string beans, peel and slice the garlic and onion, wash and slice the pork into cubes and that's it, preparation is done in no time.
Slice the string beans
Peel and slice the onion
Peel and slice the garlic
Cooking
And if the preparation is very easy cooking this dish is quite easy too, it only need sauteeing, and some stirring and it is done.
Put the cooking oil in the cooking bowl
Add the garlic
Add the onion
Stir the onion and the garlic
Add the pork
Stir
Add the string beans
Add about 200 to 300 ml of water
Add the soy sauce
Add the white vinegar
Add the ground black pepper
Add the bay leaves
Stir
Stir well until the string beans become0 very soft
It is done
