Pork Binagoongan with Talong – A spicy Pork & Eggplant stir-fry

Pork Binagoongan With Talong is a bold and richly flavored Pinoy Favorite. Tender pork belly simmered in a savory-salty shrimp paste base sauce. Best enjoyed with generous amounts of rice. You’ll never get enough of it!

An spicy umami packed pork dish that simmered in aromatics, tomatoes, shrimp paste, chillies and eggplants that absorbs the sauce beautifully. This flavor combination is sure to WOW a crowd.

Pork Binagoongan with Talong Ingredients :

• Pork belly – our main dish, having a food amount of fat and meat which makes it not only tender but flavorful as well.
• Eggplant – mildly sweet, creamy in testure, and greta at absorbing flavors of the sauce.
• Onion and Garlic – aromatics, makes everything taste better.
• Tomatoes – savory, rich, and a natural souring agent.
• Shrimp paste or Ginisang bagoong (alamang) – is salty, pungent, and very rich in umami. This gives the dish it’s very distinguishable taste.
• Water – adjust as needed to cook the pork.
• Black Pepper – to taste
• Oil – for frying
• Green Chilli – for spice but not too spicy.

How to cook Pork Binagoongan with Talong

Ingredients :

• 1 kilo Pork belly (chop into serving pieces)
• 3 eggplant (chopped) optional
• 1 large onion (chopped)
• 6 cloves garlic (chopped)
• 3 large tomatoes (chopped)
• 4 to 5 tablespoon sauteed shrimp paste or ginisang bagoong (alamang)
• 1 cup water (adjust as needed to cook the pork)
• ground black pepper to taste
• oil for frying
• green chilli (optional)

Steps :

1. Cut the eggplant into serving pieces. Soak in water to avoid darkening. Heat some oil in the pan and fry the eggplants. Once fried, set aside.

2. Sear the pork belly until light brown. Searing will add flavour to the dish. After searing, remove from the pan and set aside. Remove some of the oil rendered from the pork belly. Keep around 2 tablespoon for sautéing.

3. In the same pan, sauté’ the onion until fragrant. Next is the garlic. Saute’ for a few seconds. Add the chopped tomatoes. Saute’ for a minute.

4. Then, add the sautéed shrimp paste. Saute’ for a minute. Then add the seared pork. Season with ground black pepper, and add water. Stir until well-combined.

5. Cover and let it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until the pork is tender. Add water if needed.
Once the pork is cooked and tender (check by poking with fork), add the chilies and fried eggplant.

6. Toss to just cover the eggplant with the sauce then remove from the heat. Serve with hot rice. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes :

• You can use fresh shrimp paste in this recipe. Just wash it first before adding to lessen the salt.
• If you are going to use fresh shrimp paste, sauté’ it longer. Add a little bit of sugar in the recipe as well to balance the saltiness.
• I didn’t use salt in this recipe since it is already salty from the shrimp paste I used. You may add salt as needed.
• Eggplant is optional, you may skip it if you don’t like veggies in your Pork binagoongan.

Try our other Yummy Binagoongan Recipes :

Watch Pork Binagoongan with Fried Talong

Questions :

• Pork Binagoongan with Talong Calories

It has around 400 or more calories per serving of 200 grams.

• Additional Ingredients :
  • You can replace the fried eggplant with okra for more fiber. You can also choose to slice this in half and saute or similar to the eggplant, fry until browned. this makes for a very healthy Pork Binagoongan with Talong Okra. You can also change the vegetable into Sitaw ( or sting beans ) for Pork Binagoongan with Talong and Sitaw. Replace the vegetable with whatever fits your budget and diet.
  • For a creamy and and subtly nutty version, replace the water with 1/2 or 1 cup of coconut cream if you like the sauce thick, or coconut milk if you want is slightly watery. You can also make it 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup coconut cream all of which the options will turn into Pork Binagoongan with Talong and Gata recipe.
  • Try Crispy Pork Binagoongan with talong. For those who love a nice crunch into their dish, or have leftover lechon / crispy pata. Use these leftovers instead of the raw pork. Air fry these until it crisps back up while you cook the base sauce and vegetables. Top this over the cooked sauce instead of mixing it together to keep the skin crisp for longer. This Crispy Pork Binagoongan with Talong is the quicker version since theres no need to simmer the meat until tender.

Pork Binagoongan with Talong ( Tagalog )

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo Pork belly ( hiniwa ng maliliit )
• 3 talong opsyonal ( hiniwa )
• 1 malaking sibuyas ( hiniwa )
• 6 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 3 malalaking kamatis ( hiniwa ng maliliit )
• 4 o 5 kutsara shrimp paste o ginisang bagoong (alamang)
• 1 tasa tubig ( i-adjust depende sa pagluto ng baboy )
• paminta depende sa panlasa
• Mantika pang prito
• berdeng sili ( opsyonal )

Paano Lutuin :

1. Hiwain ang mga talong ng pa-4 o 6. Ibabad sa tubig para hindi ito umitim. Maginit ng mantika sa kawali at iprito ang mga talong. Pagkatapos, itabi.
2. Lutuin ang mga hiniwang pork belly hanggang mag kayumanggi. Pagkatapos, tanggalin at itabi. Tanggalin din ang konting mantika na naggaling sa pagluto ng baboy ( ang mga natunaw na taba ). Magiwan lamang ng 2 kutsara ng mantika nito para sa pagluto.
3. sa parehong kawali, lutuin ang mga sibuyas hanggang bumango. Pagkatapos, Lutuin ang bawang, tapos ang mga hiniwa na kamatis. Lutuin ng 1 minuto.
4. ihalo dito ang sautéed shrimp paste. Lutuin ng 1 minuto. Ibalik ang baboy. Isama dito ang paminta at tubig. haluin ng mabuti.
5. Takpan ang kawali at lutuin ng 10 – 15 minuto o hanggang lumambot ang mga baboy. Dagdagan ng tubig kung kinakailangan. Tusukin ng tinidor para malaman kung malambot na ito. Haluan ng sili at prinitong talong.
6. Haluin hanggang matakpan ng sarsa ang mga talong. Tanggalin sa init. Ihanda kasama ng kanin at i-enjoy !