KITCHEN MISADVENTURE SERIES – Drunken pork in hoisin sauce

On some occasions, I still cook pork since the kids still want/crave for it sometimes and so I relent and cook them a few dishes like this next dish that I made for the kids’ baon today that was inspired by another fave food blogger Dennis (with website at Mga Luto ni Dennis at iba pa). What I just do is I hide the finished product from the hubby when I finish packing the kids school lunches so he doesn’t have to be tempted to taste the pork dish that I just made.

I marinated the meat (I did not have pork lomo or loin so I just used liempo cut) in some salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary, star anise, soy sauce and calamansi overnight. If you would notice, the title is drunken pork so I needed to use some gin but since I did not have any (and didn’t think the kids would like to have something alcoholic in their food, I did not add this anymore) Then this morning, I pan fried the meat slices in a little oil until browned. After a few minutes, I added the marinade and let the meat boil to cook. I added a bit more soy sauce and some water to cover the meat. After that I added the hoisin sauce and brown sugar, stirred the meat to allow the sauce to cover everything then I turned off the fire and served with hot rice while the rest went to the kids’ lunchboxes. Quite easy really and yummy too! Thanks Dennis!