Patatim Home style

Directions

1. When buying the pork leg, it is easier to prepare if you will ask the meat vendor to chop it for you about 1-1/2 inch thick.
2. Wash the pork pata in running water and soak in water for at least half an hour to remove the all the blood and to lessen the odor.
3. Drain and put in a pot and fill with water just enough to cover the pork. Let boil until the scum floats then drain again and rinse to remove the remaining scum.
4. Fill with water again just like what you did before and add in soy sauce, pineapple juice, garlic, star anise and cinnamon bark.
5. Let boil and simmer for about an hour to 1-1/2 hour. Add more water if necessarily.
6. Then add sugar and oyster sauce. Boil again for 30 minutes or until the pork is tender.
7. Add in the mushroom and continue cooking until the skin is soft and with a gelatin texture and the liquid is reduced to half.
8. Mix cornstarch with 3 Tbsp water and pour in to thicken the sauce. Season with salt or fish sauce to taste.
9. In the meantime, wash and trim the bok choy. Blanch in a saucepan with boiling water for 2 minutes.
10. Then mix the bok choy with the pata tim and serve hot.
11. You can make it more presentable by doing this: upon serving the pata tim, arrange a bed of blanched bok choy on a platter. Then put the pork leg pieces and mushrooms on the bok choy and pour over the sauce on the pata tim.