How to Cook Delicious Pork in Shrimp Paste (Filipino Binagoongan) - Pork with Bagoong

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Pork in Shrimp Paste (Filipino Binagoongan) - Pork with Bagoong. Pork Binagoongan is a delicious Filipino dish which owes much of its tastiness to the combination of sweetness, sourness, and the saltiness of the bagoong alamang, the decadence of the pork and the added pungency of the green chili and siling labuyo which can be added into the dish or used as a garnish. Great recipe for Pork in Shrimp Paste (Filipino Binagoongan) - Pork with Bagoong. I've tasted many versions of this dish.

Binagoongang Baboy or Pork in Shrim Paste is a Filipino Pork dish that is perfect to eat with lots and lots of white rice. the name of this dish literally means pork in shrim paste or pork cooked with shrimp paste. "Bagoong" is a Filipino (Tagalog) term for Shrimp paste, while pork is called "baboy".

The secret to the tastiest binagoongang baboy is to add the shrimp paste much earlier than most cooks do to give the meat time to soak up all its umami goodness.

I've heard many Filipinos describe binagoongang baboy as pork adobo with bagoong added in.

You can have Pork in Shrimp Paste (Filipino Binagoongan) - Pork with Bagoong using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pork in Shrimp Paste (Filipino Binagoongan) - Pork with Bagoong

Prepare of Cooking Oil of your choice.
You need 1 of medium red onion.
It’s 3-4 of garlic cloves.
You need 2 of medium tomatoes.
Prepare 200-250 g of pork (cuts with fat).
It’s 1 cup of water with dissolved 0.25 chicken broth cube.
You need 1-2 Tbsp of coconut milk or dissolve 2 tsp coconut milk powder mix with the chicken cube.
Prepare 1 of large bay leaf or 3-4 small pcs.
It’s 1 of big calamansi or a squeeze of lemon/lime.
You need 2-3 tsp of heaps of Shrimp paste, sweet style.
You need of Chili (optional).
It’s to taste of Salt & Pepper.
Prepare of Eggplant, cubed (optional).
It’s of Green Beans (optional).
It’s 1 stalk of green onion (optional).

If that's how you cook your binagoongang baboy, it will be salty as hell.

The better way to cook this dish is to treat the.

Saute garlic, onion, tomatoes and pre-boiled pork in a pan over medium-high heat. add some bagoong (shrimp paste) pour in pork broth and let it simmer until meat is tender.

Enjoy! 🙂 Pork Binagoongan is a simple Filipino dish made out of pork pieces dressed with bagoong sauce, a really tasty dish paired with steamed rice.

Pork in Shrimp Paste (Filipino Binagoongan) - Pork with Bagoong step by step

Heat oil in wok and saute garlic, onions until translucent. Add sliced tomatoes with its juices..
Add the cup of water with dissolved 0.25 of chicken bullion cube and coconut powder mix (Ginataang Mix is okay to use). Or use fresh coconut milk.

Adjust coconut taste to your liking, whether using fresh or powdered.

Let the bay leaf/leaves sit at the bottom of the wok.

Let it simmer..

Cut pork into bite size pcs. In this I combined a pork chop cut and belly cut. The fat part makes the dish tastier.

Add pork slices to the wok. Season with crushed black pepper to your liking.

Squeeze 1 calamansi juice or a little squeeze of lemon/lime. Mix. Cover and let it simmer in low heat for 20-30 minutes or until tender and liquid is reduced..

Add the shrimp paste, mix in and cover. Let flavors combine.

Add sliced green beans or eggplants to the wok, mix in and cover. Reduce the liquid that seeped out from the veggies or until veggies are cooked.

Add your chili as desired. My mom cant take the heat so I just added a single long chili, unsliced. Slice the chili is you want heat.

Add salt according to your taste. If you used salty shrimp paste, you might not need to. You might need to add a pinch of sugar instead.

Mix well and remember not to over cook the veggies :)

Remove bay leaves. Garnish with chopped green onion. Serve and enjoy..

My first taste of this was made by a good friend who happened to stay home with us for a few weeks, from then on this became a favorite occasional dish to me.

The critical ingredient of Pork Binagoongan is the shrimp paste (Bagoong Alamang in Tagalog), a condiment made from a fermented mixture of small shrimps and salt, which gives flavor to the dish.

You can either use the salty fresh reddish bagoong alamang or the commercialized 'bottle of sautéed shrimp paste' of Kamayan or Barrio Fiesta.

A bagoong is a condiment made from fermented fish or shrimp fry preserved in salt.

For those unfamiliar, the smell can be repulsive and the salty taste too much.