How to cook Pata Tim
Pata Tim Recipe is an enticing braised pork leg dish influenced by the Filipino-Chinese community here in the Philippines. This recipe is slowly boiled to make the meat really tender then cooked in a mixture of oyster sauce, soy sauce, cornstarch and a little sugar. It has a thick and sweet sauce and the meat almost separates from the bone.
Pata Tim is indeed a mouth-watering dish that most Filipinos loved; we can say that this dish was invented after the Spanish era by the Filipino-Chinese community because of the name itself. P ata is a Spanish word for “leg” and Tim is a Chinese word which refers to a cooking procedure on how a dish is cooked.
Pata Tim Recipe is a popular braised pork leg dish similar to paksiw na pata with out the vinegar, give it a try.
Pata Tim Ingredients |
- 1 kilo pork’s leg (pata)
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 3/4 cup pineapple juice
- 3/4 cup oyster sauce
- 5 cloves garlic; crushed
- 1 tablespoon rice wine
- 1 tablespoon pepper corns
- 1 red onion; chopped
- 3 bay leaves
- Lettuce (fried in 2 minutes)
Pata Tim Sauce Ingredients:
- 1 cup broth of pata
- 5 tablespoons cornstarch
- Salt to taste
