BBQ Pork Skewers

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This fashionable Filipino crockery is based connected the pork that restaurateur Meshelle Armstrong’s aunts, Tita Viloi and Tita Jet, make. Armstrong’s husband, cook Cathal Armstrong, tweaked the look a spot further, making it little saccharine and utilizing braised pork belly alternatively of pork butt (shoulder).

You’ll request to soak immoderate bamboo/wooden skewers successful h2o for astatine slightest 30 minutes earlier grilling.

Serve with ail rice.

The look calls for banana ketchup, which is sweeter than American ketchup. It’s disposable astatine markets specified arsenic Filipino Home Baking and Grocery successful Wheaton (301-942-2800) and astatine immoderate ample Asian markets.

The marinade tin beryllium made and refrigerated up to 3 days successful advance. The pork needs to marinate overnight successful the refrigerator.

From Cathal Armstrong, chef-owner of Restaurant Eve successful Alexandria.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-10 (makes 24 to 30 skewers)

For the skewers

1/4 cupful canola oil
2 mean onion, coarsely chopped (2 cups)
40 cloves garlic
1 cupful low-sodium soy sauce
1/2 cupful caller citrus juice
8 tablespoons packed acheronian brownish sugar
About 19 ounces (1 bottle) banana ketchup, specified arsenic Jufran Banana Sauce (see headnote)
3 teaspoons kosher salt
2 pounds pork butt (fat trimmed), chopped into strips that are 1 inch wide and 1/4 inch thick