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Meowie’s Note:

I remember those rainy days back in my hometown, Bacolod City where I was born and grew up, our dad would cook up a storm in the kitchen and one of my faves that he usually do best (most of his dishes are actually!) is Pochero.  Pochero is a filipino style Meat stew dish that can use either Chicken, Beef or Pork with bananas and tomato sauce. Since filipino cuisine mainly consists of sweet, sour and esp. salty flavors.  This is one of them, our stews are mostly sweet because we put sugar in them even our spaghetti has sugar!

So, feel free to leave me a message if ever I missed mentioning here…thanks for looking and bon apetit!

Ingredients:

Conveniently serves 6-8

1 (3 lb) chicken, cut in serving size pieces

1 lb pork, cut in large cubes

2 chorizo sausage, cut into 1″ pieces

1 large onion, sliced

4 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoon pepper

4 tablespoons oil

10 cloves garlic, finely chopped

1 medium onion, finely chopped

 2 ripe tomatoes,peeled and diced or1 small can whole tomatoes

1 lb sweet potatoes or you can also use russet potatoes peeled and cut into chunks

5 pieces of banana saba or green plantains, cut diagonally

1 bok choy, cut acrossin 2″ sections

2 bellppers cut into strips (I use red and yellow, they’re much sweeter and tastier)

4 stalks of mediuam bokchoy or you can have cabbages as an option

a bottle of ketchup or tomato sauce

vegetable oil  for sauteeing

2 cup of chicken or pork broth

Procedures:

1) In one pan heat oil and saute` chicken and pork separately until brown. Set aside the meats when done.

2) On the same pan, add sliced onion,red and yellow bellpeppers, garlic and tomatoes  seasoned with salt & pepper,

3) Once the onions are translucent, reduce heat and  put back the meats (chicken and pork) add some chicken or pork broth and until it comes to a boil for about 30 to 45 minutes.

4) When the meats are tender enough, add the remaining ingredients: the sweet or regular potatoes,bananas or plantains, ketchup or tomato sauce until potatoes are nearly cooked then add cabbage or bokchoy for the last few minutes.

Best served with a side of steamed Jasmine Rice.

Bon Apetit!