Pork Humba Recipe

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Pork Humba Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork belly, cut in cubes
1 tablespoon garlic, crushed
1 small onion; chopped
1/3 cup vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 bay leaves
1 cup rice water
1/4 tablespoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon salted black beans (optional)
Cooking oil

Pork Humba Cooking Instructions:

Marinate pork in soy sauce and pepper for 1 hour.

Saute garlic and onion. Add pork from the marinade and bay leaves. Stir fry for few minutes until pork starts to render its oily fat. Add rice water, then bring to a boil until most of the liquid has evaporated. Add vinegar but do not stir in order not to over sour the flavor. Boil for few minutes, then add the brown sugar stirring once in a while. Simmer until a saucy consistency is achieved. Adjust seasoning with soy sauce according to taste. Serve hot!

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Comments (41)

tinuod nga humba

boil the pork belly,then cut into big cubes after that fry it till brown remove some oil thats the time that you add; srpite/ or pine apple juice /onion slice/garlic cloves/patis/b.sugar/pamintang buo/star anise/ larel/tahosyo/some sring onion.bring to boil!!!lastly is venigar to balance the sweet..kinahanglan tam-is sya kay sa masubrahan sa aslom.if u like to use ajinomoto add a bit...this is the way i cookED my HUMBA. have a gudnite.

#41 - GEN BUSHOR - 02/02/2012 - 22:30

Thanks for the recipe... My family loves it so much! I cooked it exactly the way it was told in the recipe and just so yummy! :-)

#40 - Lynn - 01/30/2012 - 01:31

Be Cool

Humba is also common in Bicol region... and it's soooooo delicious :DD

#39 - Paul94 - 01/24/2012 - 05:45

humba

i love humba.....una ako nakatikim ng humba ng dalin ako ng aswa ko sa dumageute dahil sa bagong kasal kami ng napangasawa ko mga ilang araw nagluto ang byanan kong lalaki ng humba at ang sarap sarap talaga super sarap.....taga maynila ako pero madalas lutuin sa pamilya ko ang adobo.....kaya kpag uuwi nko ng maynila nagpapaluto pko sa byanan ko para pasalubong sa manila

#38 - ma eliza v martinez - 01/21/2012 - 08:46

I was born in Cebu but grew up in Manila and now residing here in USA, but I know how to speak Cebuano even though we didn't speak it at home then. I missed my mom's humba and have not eaten it for more than 20 years now. My brother and sisters and I were talking about our mom's visayan cooked dishes, and remember the humba (after weeks of trying to remember the name). Nag dali intawon ko pag check sa internet on how to make it. Thank you sooooo much for the recipe. I will try to make it and send some to my brother and sisters. Hope I can make it as good as we remember it to be. Ka mao ka ba muhimo ug "guinamos"? that is the one I've been craving for too but no way of getting it here or have someone bring it over and also "pu-so'. Again, thank you! ;-)

#37 - deehai98@yahoo.com - 01/19/2012 - 23:02

HUMBA is way different from adobo. Only mga bisaya like me can cook delicious humba since it's a bisaya recipe. During fiestas, that's the no. 1 recipe that we cook aside from lechon.

#36 - bisayang dako - 01/09/2012 - 21:12

humba humba

taGA cebu ko mo try pa lang ko og luto sa humba kay ako papa maoy tig luto og humba maka limut ko kun unsaon pag luto mao ako na pud ang mo sulay og luto sa humba gudluck to me hehehhehe :-D

#35 - meldystanco - 12/31/2011 - 13:02

Humba

FYI. Humba is completely different from Adobo.

#34 - Lourdes - 12/20/2011 - 19:00

humba humba lat-an daan ayha ibutang ang panakot simmer low heat till saucy;)

#33 - dandt - 12/20/2011 - 15:50

Humba

rice water.. yung pinag hugasan nang bigas.

#32 - mylene - 12/11/2011 - 16:48

My Mama's Humba

Hello ako tga mindanao pod. akong mama sauna pagmagluto sya og humba sagulan nyag pineapple juice and it was tastyyyyy yummmy :) I miss her cooking a lot specially the humba my gosh kalami kaayo oy.

#31 - Lourdes - 11/14/2011 - 14:24

humbara

bisaya din me tga mindanao mis nako ang humba pag pista madaming humba sa amoa,try ko iluto sana magustuhan ng mister ko...

#30 - novilliza - 11/13/2011 - 02:55

humba

bisaya din ako fram davao yan ang specialty ko humba,ako slice ko ung pork tapos lagay k s pan until labas ung oil niya or brown n ung color ng pork, tapos remove mo ung oil mix m n lahat ng ingredients and then low fire lng until sticky n ung pork lagay m n ung black beans..........yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy.

#29 - delia_medalle@hotmail.com - 10/30/2011 - 14:29

HUMBA OLALA!!!.....

I just try it tonight, i'm not that very good in cooking but i love to cook and try to do different dishes... it turns very good!!! my husband and nephew love's it!!! i put pineapple bits just to add color and sweetness... :))

#28 - alyssa - 09/14/2011 - 07:38

humba sa amo

rice water... kana gud kinislan sa bugas isa i lung.ag

#27 - regine_ph04@yahoo.com - 09/08/2011 - 20:39

humba

DAHH !!
its so SARAP talga !
speechless talga ako :)
, haha
ang cup rice water po ehh ung sa pinaghugsan mo ng sinaing mo na BIGAS !
haha :) ECHOS lng :-P

#26 - aiko - 09/08/2011 - 02:09

Homba

Ito ang favoritong lutuin ng lolo ko at hangang nagun mis namin magkapatid ang lutong ito. Ang alam kong sahog instead of sugar sugarcane ang nila2gay ng lolo ko. Thank sa recipe matagal na kasi nagha2nap ang kapatid ko ng authentic waray recipe for homba. Thank you and God bless!!!

#25 - Tita - 08/29/2011 - 23:46

ingredients for humba:

dried mushrooms;
blackbeans(temple brand;
dried shrimps;
gabi(taro);
kensham(dried banana blossom);
soy sauce;
vinegar;
mascovado(red sugar)

#24 - fbandilaan@yahoo.com - 08/10/2011 - 05:20

hum ba

humba
its not really pinoy adobo but only similarity taste.. you can try adobong pusit just boiled in sprite a little bit then you fry it add some sugar and chile

#23 - peter abudhabi - 08/07/2011 - 06:07

ano po ba ang cup rice water..? hahahaha ;-)

#22 - joradin - 07/25/2011 - 14:44

Engr.

you may add also "gabi" root crop... but this will shortenthe lifespan of humba... the Visayan have created this dish because in the olden times there were no refrigerator and cooking pork this way will serve the family few more days longer than any other dish. Same with the paksiw.

#21 - Rene - 07/15/2011 - 04:45

I suggest you try milk condensed instead of brown sugar. Still include the Pineapple juice. Thus, all other ingredients but minus the soy sauce and the vinegar. I learned this from an officemate..try it with the same procedure..

#20 - Martin M - 07/08/2011 - 07:17

Homemaker/working Mom

Humba is humba and absolutely not an Adobo version for Visayan!!! It is a different dish. In fact the size of the meat cut of Humba is bigger than the Adobo.I remember when I was a kid my Mama use to add pineapple juice to this dish citing it will actually help the meat tenderize faster,and it makes it more yummy...

#19 - Gina - 07/03/2011 - 16:51

hmmmm....it can be also pineapple juice instead of sprite softdrinks

#18 - fritzie - 06/23/2011 - 19:34

Humba ala via mare

the key to tasty meat is parboiling it before marinating it overnight. then use the marinade and the pork broth for cooking.

#17 - Bella - 06/20/2011 - 06:56

Junebug

hmmm...humba, sarap sarap nyan. i tried to cook this visayan recipe getting all my instructions from the internet. it turned out really good. i didn't know that there are different versions or cooking techniques but they all sound good!

#16 - jun z - 06/19/2011 - 16:08

humba

isa kong waray sa amin ang humba nilalagyan ng mani

#15 - lileth - 06/19/2011 - 11:05

what is rice water???

#14 - liza - 06/14/2011 - 18:20

Can you use chicken instead of pork?

Sounds like a yummy dish, but since we don't eat pork, can we use chicken?

#13 - Cooksie momster - 06/09/2011 - 10:02

traditional humba

traditional na alam ko sa humba ay palitawin ang sliced pork belly sa oil hanggang sa mag brown ng kaunti pag medyo manipis na ang taba nya ilipat sa ibang lutuan ilagay ang lahat na ingredients> dried banana flowers,black beans,bay leaves, fried banana,sprite,brown sugar kaunting vinegar,soy sauce and water stir and mix them well medium lang ang heat hanggang sa lumambot na ang balat nya try it you always want some more

#12 - lisa - 05/28/2011 - 18:01

We have "adobo" same as the tagalog adobo in Visaya,I'm from Mis.occ.In our household comprised of Ilocano Lolo,Cebuana Lola,and Misamisnon Ozamiz relatives= When there's litson, the lolas will save the "pata"parts of the litson for "HUMBA".The dish is not same as adobo, ours has dried"lily flowers" in it-you know the chinese enfluence in dish-we have chinese neighbors....and i remember going to a local chinese grocer to buy kandila but my Lola at the same time will add dried lilly flowers in my Auntie's list and i will add my dikyam and kikyam...L.O.L...really yummy w/ the flowers
and ours was not that sweet--more acidy vinegary...... :)

#11 - chilli_hot_tamale@yahoo.com.au - 05/20/2011 - 22:13

humba

humba is NOT the visayan version of adobo...ABSOLUTELY NOT!

#10 - emilio - 05/16/2011 - 08:38

Humba

Ok everybody, give me a real humba recipe please , the traditional one... I know it has dried banana flower and black beans, but what else?

#9 - Yolly - 05/14/2011 - 19:45

try this

lutuin muna yung pork sa kawali hanggang lumabas yung mantika nya.kapag manipis na ang taba.isalin sa kaldero yung pork na kinunan nang taba.ilagay lahat ng ingredients.yung secret dyan yung sprite.lutuin lng sa mahinang apoy.kapag nakita na medyo malapot yun na yun.enjoy eating!

#8 - Reuben Allan - 03/02/2011 - 06:25

TRY THIS

ang tito ko may resto..
nilalagyan nya ng tubo (sugarcane) sa ilalim before ang pork meat na may taba para d kna maglalagay madaming sugar..tska ung pork meat na yun ai yung kinanun na ng oil ..( ilagay lang sa kawali ang hinugasang meat at cut into pieces and wait until magbrown sya) bago ilalagay sa lutuan na may sugarcane....
and the rest na ingredients ung nsa taas..ok na un...am Bisaya and its our traditional fud

#7 - SHYLA - 01/20/2011 - 07:36

hmmm humba... try add dried banana blossoms and instead of rice water try sprite softdrink and add a tablespoon of sugar(W/B) for the last taste.... hmmmm yummyyyyy....

#6 - nick - 01/18/2011 - 04:14

humba

it's good also with salted black beans & oregano.

#5 - leny - 12/31/2010 - 14:57

jocelyn its not what it seems hehehehe. try it...

#4 - aorcen0001@yahoo.com - 12/23/2010 - 21:33

you can omit the brown sugar, but still it doesn't make it really as sweet as you might expect. this can also be done in the slow cooker, 2hrs on high or 8hrs on low, the downside is you will be getting a whole lot of pork fat.

#3 - dianne - 10/31/2010 - 11:33

yeah...humba is the adobo version in visayas region.

#2 - jocelyn - 08/08/2010 - 11:59

seems like sweet adobo... :oops:

#1 - lorna - 08/08/2010 - 06:23


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