HOW TO MAKE HAMONADO (RECIPE)

HOW TO MAKE HAMONADO (RECIPE) -Hamonado is a traditional dish in the Philippines that is always cooked during christmas and new year. This food is made of pork or roasted pig which is processed to be more like Ham. Hamonado is the best alternative for ham when you feel like you do not want ham. One of the few differences between ham and hamonado is that ham is a bit more salty than this dish. And also hamonado is added with ingredients for it to be become a little sweet and sour like pineapple and calamansi extract. Basically, this dish is marinated in a mixture of pineapple juice and calamansi but what we are going to do using my recipe is we are going to use lemon extract instead of the traditional calamansi extract because lemon is more abundant globally than calamansi. But I think any citrus fruit will do as long as it possesses the taste we need for this dish. Making Hamonado is very simple and easier than you think but it will require more time and a bit of patience because this dish requires curing. This time we also need to fry the pork to keep the taste of marinade in the pork. There are many ways to make Hamonado like baking it together with the sweet and sour ingredients but I find that curing, frying and simmering it is the best. To me, this food is way better than ham, maybe it is because I like sweet and sour food like this one or maybe it is just easier for me to make Hamonda than making ham. You can adjust the amount of the ingredients in my recipe to suit your taste or you can replace some of it with your preferred ones but if you are going to experiment first, I would like to advise you to just experiment using small amount of the whole ingredients because you would not be so sure if you would like the outcome of you experiment. Here is the recipe for Hamonado:

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HOW TO MAKE HAMONADO (RECIPE)

Prep Time:
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Yield: 7 servings

INGREDIENTS FOR HAMONADO
3/4 kilo pork tenderloin
2 cups pineapple chunks
2 cups pineapple juice
5 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup lemon extract
4 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
cooking oil
freshly ground pepper to taste
salt to taste

DIRECTIONS AND PROCEDURE ON MAKING HAMONADO
1. In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients except pineapple chunks and cooking oil. Mix until sugar and salt are dissolved.
2. Cover the bowl and marinade the pork overnight in a fridge.
3. Remove the pork from the marinade. Set the marinade aside.
4. In a skillet, heat oil. Fry the pork until cooked or browned.
5. Pour the marinade, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
6. Add the pineapple chunks and continue simmer for another 5 minutes or until the marinade sauce thickens.
7. Remove from heat, slice into 7 parts.
8. Transfer in serving plates and serve with red wine.

HOW TO MAKE HAMONADO (RECIPE)