Here's my version of humba. Actually this is from my email to jamo2x kay nag ask man sya ug recipe ani adtong mid July. I copy ko na lang aron madali.
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Jams, here's my wa dinhi wa didto recipe for humba. ambot kon makapasar ba kaha ni sa akong lola (dugay nang namatay) kon nahitabong natilawan ni sya but daghan nailad na liwat kuno ko sa akong lola kay kamao mobuhat ug humba. hahaha pwera bujag!
ayaw ko'g ipa hatag ug measurement ha kay wa jud ko ana but mag try ko'g jama2x sa measurement.
pork legs, let say about 3 to 4 pcs. or about 7 to 10 lbs., sliced
soy sauce, 1/4 cup
garlic, 5 ka dagko jamo'ng piraso (or 10!)
bay leaves - 4 leaves
corn pepper (i think we call this pamenta), ground and whole
vinegar or suka, 1/4 cup (ingon sa akong mommy lahi ang suka sa vinegar kay ang suka gikan sa tuba. ayaw supak!)
add a hint of lemon juice just to be cool.
brown sugar, about 2 table spoons
red wine, about 1 to 2 cups (optional)
pork or beef broth or just plain water
pork cubes
cooking oil
now let's get cookin' but first let's prep the meat. the night before or at least 6 hours, marinate pork legs with the first 7 ingredients.
once ready to cook, in a huge pot, depending on the amount of meat you are gonna cook (kadaghan ba'g adlib oi!), of course, heat the cooking oil. once starting to smoke, add brown sugar and keep stirring to avoid the sugar from burning. you just want to caramelize the sugar, not make tira-tira out of it! hehehe so padayon ta. once the sugar is caramelized, add the meat excluding the marinade, though you have to reserve it. brown the meat and then add the marinade, and the rest of the ingredients. bana-banaa lang imong liquid igo lang ma cover. imong lat-an or if you have pressure cooker, mas dali but the conventional cooking method is just fine, even better daw. season to taste with salt and maybe more pepper. if you use pork cubes, you may add too. there's a pork cube called Herbox that has no MSG. (consider that as a comercial break nang Herbox! hehehe). Keep cooking until most of the liquid is reduced and that it looks like the humba served in fiestas in Bohol. Check if you need to add vinegar or other seasoning like salt and pepper.
Optional: you may want to add whole boiled eggs and friend bananas. Add the fried bananas towards the end kay aron di malata pero kon sab-a imong gamit, hala at the middle of cooking kay di na dali-dali malata. You may also add black beans which I highly recommend. If you are adding black beans, go easy on the salt and soy sauce because canned black beans are really salty.
That's it! Serve hot with nilung-ag na rice.
sige sibat nako kay adto pa ko sa akong serbisyo publiko sa simbahan.
should you have questions, ask lang mo.
