How to Make Appetizing Pork Humba

Name: How to Make Appetizing Pork Humba
Prep time: 17 min
Cook time: 2 h
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 lbspork belly, cut into cubes; 3 tbspsminced garlic; 1 cansalted black beans; Banana blossoms; 3 tbspsbrown sugar; 2 cupscola; Pinchblack pepper

Jerry Morrison

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How to Make Appetizing Pork Humba Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pork Humba. Humba is a sweet pork dish that resembles the famous pork adobo in terms of appearance. This is popular in the southern parts of the Philippines and is considered as one of the delicacies of the region. Humba (homba), which literally translates to tender (hum) pork (ba), is a Visayan braised pork dish similar to the classic adobo.

Said to be a derivative of the Chinese Hong-ba (also Hong-Shao-Rou or Red Braised Pork Belly).

It is believed that it was introduced by Chinese immigrants and was adapted by our Visaya folks.

Pork Humba Recipe Tips and Preparation.

You can have Pork Humba using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pork Humba

Prepare 2 lbs of pork belly, cut into cubes.
You need 3 tbsps of minced garlic.
You need 1 can of salted black beans.
Prepare of Banana blossoms.
Prepare 3 tbsps of brown sugar.
It’s 2 cups of cola.
Prepare Pinch of black pepper.

Whether you're already a wife or mother who's so used to cooking for the family or a new housewife wanting to please her husband and visitors during the holidays or even in other special occasions, this Pork Humba Recipe is worth trying since it's quite easy to prepare.

Humba is a stewed pork dish with similarities to Filipino Adobo.

Although the two dishes resembles in terms of appearance, Humba is "sweet, sour, and salty" all at once in taste while Adobo is "sour and salty".

Humba uses all the basic ingredients of Adobo with the addition of brown sugar, salted black beans (tausi), and banana blossoms.

Pork Humba instructions

Combine all ingredients in a pot and cook in a medium heat.
Tenderize for 30 minutes and until sauce thickens.
Serve and enjoy.

Three parts of the pig such as pork Pork Pata Humba slowly cooked until tender and flavorful.

Braised pork hock with a sweet and savory sauce that goes perfectly well with steamed rice!

This Pork Pata Humba is my mum's or Ima's version of the Visayan pork humba.

I remember this dish pretty well especially when there's a special occasion in our family.

All the things you love about Filipino pork humba are in this recipe.