How to cook Pata tim

How to cook Pata tim

Pata tim is a whole leg pork cooked long and slow in a sweet and savory sauce.

Ingredients

• 1kl pork legs (pata,sliced or whole)
• 1pc Pork knorr cube
• 1in can pine apple chunks
• 1piece onion meduim size (chopped)
• 4cloves garlic (minced)
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 5pcs dried bay leaves
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 teaspoon whole peppercorn
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• Salt to taste

Steps on how to cook

• Boil the pork leg (pata) in pressure cooker, If you dont have a pressure cooker you can use a pot. Boil it for 15 minutes.
• After boiling. take the pork leg (pata) out of the pressure cooker or cooking pot and wash it in running water.
• Discard the water in the pressure cooker
• Heat cooking oil in a cooking pot. Saute garlic and onion.
• Add the boiled pork leg (pata) once the onion softens
• Pour soy sauce,pineapple juice and water and boil again
• Next add the pepper corn, dried bay leaves and pineapple chunks.Boil again for 18minutes.

Notes: If not using a pressure cooker, boil pork for 90minutes on a regular coking pot. Make sure to add water if the liquid is about to dry-up

• Add knorr pork cubes and brown sugar. Stir it. Let it simmer umtil the sauce reduces to half.
• Season with salt and boil again for about 5 minutes.
• Transfer to a serving plate.

Ready to eat. Enjoy

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