Recipe: Yummy Pochero

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Pochero. Pochero or Puchero is a well-loved Filipino stew. I know that you are familiar with this dish after we featured two variations: Beef Pochero and Chicken Pochero. To complete our Pochero series, I thought of sharing this Pork Pochero recipe.

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In Philippine cuisine, puchero (Spanish: Pochero; Tagalog: putsero) is a dish composed of beef chunks stewed with saba bananas (or plantains).

The dish may also include potatoes or sweet potatoes, chorizos de Bilbao, bok choy, leeks, chickpeas, cabbage and tomato sauce.

You can cook Pochero using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pochero

  1. Prepare 1 of kilo pork cut into cubes.

  2. You need 50 g of cabbage (half a head) chopped.

  3. It’s 100 g of pechay or bok choy with the base cut.

  4. Prepare 4 of ripe plantain bananas sliced.

  5. Prepare 4 of potatoes or sweet potatoes cut into quarters.

  6. You need 6 of longyard beans cut in 2 inches.

  7. Prepare 1 of big can pork and beans or chickpeas/garbanzos.

  8. It’s 2 links of chorizo (semi-cured Spanish sausage) quartered.

  9. It’s 1/2 cup of tomato sauce.

  10. It’s 2 cups of water.

  11. You need 2 tablespoons of fish sauce.

  12. You need 4 cloves of garlic minced.

  13. Prepare 1 of medium onion diced.

  14. Prepare of Cooking oil.

  15. Prepare to taste of Salt and pepper.

Other versions replace beef with chicken or pork.

The Yucatec puchero varies by cook and region.

Pochero (Puchero) is another great dish that we inherited from the Spanish.

It is a stew of meat, vegetable, root crops and legumes and was originally considered as peasant stew (in Andalusia).

Pochero instructions

  1. Heat pan and cook pork in oil for 30 minutes or until brown and tender. To lessen oil, you can also try using an air fryer to cook meat. Set aside..

  2. Using the same pan, add garlic until and cook light golden brown on low heat. Add onion and cook until translucent. Add potatoes and cook for about 5 minutes. Add chorizo and cook for another 5 minutes..

  3. Add sliced plantain bananas and water. Bring to a boil. Add pork and beans, fish sauce, tomato sauce, and cabbage. Simmer for 10 minutes..

  4. Add yardlong beans and pechay. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer for another 2-3 minutes. Turn off heat..

  5. Serve with steamed rice..

This is because the meat that was usually used were from cheapest (fatty) cuts from a pig, cow, and chicken and with vegetables that were in season.

Filipino Puchero or Pochero is a delicious stew made from chicken, pork or beef.

Here's how to prepare Puchero or Pochero the Filipino way.

Pork Pochero is the ultimate comfort food!

Chockful of tender pork belly, beans, smoky sausage, vegetables, and rich tomato sauce, this Filipino stew is hearty, flavorful and perfect for cold weather.