Pata tim

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Pata tim is a popular pork leg Filipino dish which is very similar to paksiw na pata but this dish does not have vinegar. This dish is basically cooked pork leg with a blend of soy sauce, oyster sauce, pineapple juice and spices like garlic, star anise and cinnamon and with vegetables like mushrooms and bok choy.

What makes this dish appetizing aside from it’s flavor is the very tender meat and the skin with gelatin like texture and thick savory sauce. Cooking this dish seems complicated and you might think that this can only be cooked by an experienced chef. But just reading the procedure, you will know that it is that complicated at all. If you have cooked some simple Asian dishes or Filipino dishes, then cooking pata tim is a breeze.

Ingredients

1 kilo pork pata pork leg or 1 whole pork pata
1 bunch bokchoy
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
1/4 cup oyster sauce
1 cup pineapple juice
1 whole star anise or sanke
6 cloves garlic crushed
1 stick cinnamon bark or 1/4 tsp. cinnamon powder
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
salt or patis fish sauce
50 grams Shitake mushrooms optional or dried Chinese mushrooms
4 cups water

Instructions

How To Cook Pata Tim:

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. You can also use cook the whole pork pata.
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.
Wash and clean pata and drain. You can also soak in water for at least half an hour to remove the all the blood and to lessen the odor. Wipe with paper towel to dry. Remove hairs by burning it using a torch or lighter.
You can also burn the hairs using your stove by passing it through the flames.
This part, you have two options: retain the foot or trotters or cut it off.
Ask the butcher to cut it for you or you can use a cleaver to chop it off.
In a hot wok, heat at least a cup of cooking oil and sear the pork pata skin to remove odor and to have a nice reddish brown mahogany color when cooked.
In a pot combine soy sauce, pineapple juice, garlic, star anise and cinnamon bark.
Let boil and simmer for about an hour to 2 hours. Add more water if necessarily.
Then add sugar and oyster sauce. Boil again for 30 minutes or until the pork is tender.
Add in the mushroom and continue cooking until the skin is soft and with a gelatin texture and the liquid is reduced to half.
Mix cornstarch with 3 Tbsp water and pour in to thicken the sauce. Season with salt or fish sauce to taste.
In the meantime, wash and trim the bok choy. Blanch in a saucepan with boiling water for 2 minutes.
Then mix the bok choy with the pata tim and serve hot.
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.