Binagoongang baboy

How to make Binagoongang baboy Recipe - "pork in bagoong" You can add sugar to this dish like the folks in Central Luzon do. Washing the bagoong makes it less salty. In some cases, freshly caught alamang, instead of bagoong, that is lightly salted and fermented is used. By Gene Gonzales

Ingredients:
400 grams pork belly, cut into 1/2” squares
1 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. garlic
2 tbsp. vinegar
1 tsp. white pepper
pinch of salt or patis
2 tbsp. chopped onions
2 medium tomatoes
2/3 cup bagoong alamang
2 tbsp. chicken stock

Method:
1. Sweat the pork in oil until pork cooks in its own lard.

2. Sauté garlic in the pork lard. Add vinegar and simmer. Don't stir until vinegar boils and releases its acidic odor.

3. Add pepper. Add a little patis or salt and continue simmer over low heat until pork is brown. Add onion and tomatoes.

4. Continue stir-frying until tomatoes are cooked and limp. Add bagoong and chicken stock.