Pork soup for the soul 🐽

Pocherong Baboy, pork soup for the soul.🥣

Warm, comforting, delicious and nourishing.

This is a classic Filipino soup, perfect for kids and grown-ups alike for a nutrients-packed power boost.💪

A beloved one-pot dish that's quite easy to make❣️

🐽 Tools

Meat bowl and strainer

Chopping board & knife

Soup pot

Soup ladle

🐽 Ingredients

500g pork bones

250g pork shoulder butt or pork loins, sliced to 4 pieces

1/2 Cabbage head, sliced to squares

1 Carrot, sliced to bias

2 Saba banana, sliced to bias

2 Potato, sliced to bias

optional:Sweet corn, pechay

1 big head Onion, diced

1/2 head Garlic, crushed

1 knob Ginger, peeled, a bit crushed (optional, remove before serving)

Cooking oil

Black pepper

Salt

Water

🐽 Steps

1. Heat the soup pot to medium, add cooking oil.
2. Add onion & garlic, ginger, saute for a minute to release flavors.
3. Add the pork bones & sliced pork to the pot.
4. Saute a bit.
5. Add water.
6. Add salt, pepper. 
7. Add pork broth (optional).
8. On medium to high heat, boil for 40 minutes.
9. Lower to medium heat, add the hard veggies first: potatoes, carrots.  Boil for 10 minutes. Cover with lid.
10. Add banana. Cook for 5 minutes. Cover with lid.
11. Add the greens. Cover with a bit opening, to keep veggies green. Cok for 4 minutes 
12. Remove pot from heat. Read to serve!

🐽 Tips

* "More cabbage, less potato" - 👨

* "More potato" - 👩👦

* "More meat" - 🧒

If only it were easier to please ALL my VIPs 😅.

💡 Inspired by:

Memories of home