Name: Pata Humba
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: ¼ cup (60 ml) Cooking oil; 4 pcs (200 g) Saba bananas, sliced diagonally about ¼ inch thick; 6 cups (1 kg) Pork leg, hind quarter (pata); ½ cup (125 ml) Mama Sita’s Barbecue Marinade; 3 tbsp (45 ml) Calamansi, or lemon juice; 6 cups (1.5 L) Water; 2 pcs (1 g) Oregano leaves; 2 pcs (1 g) Bay leaves (laurel); 3 cloves (10 g) Garlic, crushed; 1 pc (2 g) Star anise; 1 tsp (5 g) Brown sugar; 1 tbsp (7 g) Cornstarch dissolved in:; ¼ cup (60 ml) Water; 1 tsp (5 ml) Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce; 3 pcs (180 g) Eggs, boiled and halved

Instructions

Fry saba bananas in cooking oil. Set aside.
In a saucepan, marinate pata in Mama Sita’s Barbecue Marinade and calamansi juice for two hours, turning occasionally.
Add water, oregano leaves, bay leaves, garlic and star anise.
Boil and simmer until tender.
Add brown sugar, dissolved cornstarch, Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce. Then stir and simmer until sauce thickens.
When almost done, add the boiled eggs.
Garnish with fried saba bananas. Serve.