Menudillo

It’s been a while since I wrote my last food blog. Unfortunately, I have to set aside my blog for a more important matter and that concerns family. But now, I am back and started to cook and write again.
Have you heard of Menudillo? This is a simplified “Menudo”, an old Filipino dish that is served during occasions such as Fiesta, small family get together and gatherings or simply viand for lunch or dinner served with white rice. Instead of using liempo or pork belly, I substituted ground pork and the rest of the ingredients are the same. This is just a simple recipe and anyone in a rush can cook this in 30 minutes.

Ingredients:
500 grams ground pork
1 pouch Tomato sauce 220 ml
¼ cup tomato catsup
1 dozen quail eggs
100 grams carrot (diced)
100 grams potatoes (diced)
50 grams red bell pepper (diced)
¼ cup dried raisins
4 cloves garlic (crushed)
1 small onion (finely chopped)
4 tbsp fish sauce
½ tsp. ground pepper
2 tbsp cooking oil (preferred canola oil)

Procedure:

1. Wash the ground pork in running water, drain and set aside.
2. In a sauce pan, boil the quail eggs. Remove from boiled water, set aside. Peel the shell when it gets cold.
3. Heat oil in a deep pan, fry the potatoes until golden. Remove and set aside.
4. In the same pan, sauté garlic and onion. Add the ground pork, fish sauce and ground pepper. Stir continuously for 5 minutes. Add the carrots, bell pepper, raisins and cook until its natural water evaporates and ground pork is light brown in color.
5. Pour in the tomato sauce and tomato catsup. Stir more for 5 minutes.
6. Add the fried potato and quail eggs.

Makes 5 servings.