Pork Adobo with Quail Eggs – Recipe Easy, Savory, and Filling

Pork Adobo with Quail Eggs is a boldly flavored, filling, and comforting Filipino dish that combines tender pork, simmered in aromatics like garlic, onion, soy sauce, peppercorns, bay leaves, vinegar, and our secret ingredient for today … SPRITE !

 Toss in some quail eggs and you’re done. We hope you enjoy this  pork adobo with quail eggs recipe as much as we do!

Ingredients :

• Pork belly – main ingredient.
• Garlic and Onion – aromatics to make the dish even more fragrant.
• Sprite – the secret ingredient that makes sure the pork stays juicy and that the seasonings really penetrate to the meat.
• Soy sauce – adds color and umami.
• Whole peppercorns – peppery and slightly fruity.
• Bay leaves – gives the dish a deeper flavor.
• Black pepper – to taste
• Quail eggs – boiled and peeled.
• Vinegar – the souring agent, it’s acidity also gives the dish a slight tangy taste.

Pork Adobo with Quail Eggs Recipe

Ingredients :

• 1 kilo pork belly chunks
• 6 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 1 medium onion ( chopped )
• 1 bottle of Sprite ( 295 ml )
• ½ cup soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon whole peppercorns
• 3 to 4 pieces dry bay leaves
• Black pepper to taste
• 20 to 30 pieces of quail eggs ( peeled )
• ⅓ cup vinegar

Steps :

1. In a pan, saute the pork until light brown and slightly charred. Add garlic and onions. Cook until aromatic. 

2. Pour in Sprite, soy sauce, peppercorns, bay leaves, black pepper to taste. Mix well. Cover and simmer at medium low heat for 40 – 45 minutes or until pork is tender.

3. Add in vinegar and do not stir for 2 to 3 minutes. Mix and add in the boiled quail eggs. Stir until all the eggs are coated in the sauce. Enjoy !

Where did Adobo come from ?

This national Filipino favorite is considered a cooking method that in indigenous to the Philippines. The way of cooking with vinegar in a soy based sauce has been introduced in the 16th century by the Spanish. It has since then been made to suit Filipino tastes. Traditionally, these are made with soy sauce, vintage, fish sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and peppercorns with the meat of choice usually being pork. This recipe has the iconic sour, salty, and umami characteristics most Filipino foods have. Nowadays, you can find other ingredients added to the simple yet YUMMY Adobo, depending on each household there might be paprika, green and or red chillies added, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, coconut milk or cream, and even changing the meats from fish, tofu, beef, chicken almost anything available in your pantry.

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Questions:

• Additional Ingredients to try in this pork with quail eggs recipe ?
  • Try a Chinese Pork Adobo with Egg Recipe, simply add some star anise and or cloves, or add some oyster sauce to give you a silkier feeling sauce.
  • You can also add other vegetables like the popular combo of “pork adobo with egg and potato”, some also add mushrooms, spinach, cabbage, squash or even zucchini.

• Try using other Meats

Try replacing the pork with pieces of chicken for a “Chicken Adobo with Quail Eggs recipe”. Simply follow the recipe. But season the chicken with salt and pepper first before sauteing these with a bit of oil, with the aromatic next, and whatever step the recipe requires next.

Pork Adobo with Quail Eggs Resipi ( Tagalog ) :

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo pork belly, hiniwa ng pa-cube
• 6 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 1 sibuyas ( hiniwa ng maliliit )
• 1 bote ng Sprite ( 295 ml )
• ½ tasa soy sauce
• 1 kutsarang whole peppercorns
• 3 o 4 piraso ng dahon ng laurel
• Paminta panlasa
• 20 o 30 piraso ng itlog ng pugo ( binalatan )
• ⅓ tasa suka

Paano Lutuin :

1. Sa kawali, lutuin ang baboy hanggang mag kayumanggi at may pagkasunog. Halua ng bawang at sibuyas. Lutuin hanggang mabango.
2. Ibuhos dito ang Sprite, soy sauce, buong paminta, dahon ng laurel, at paminta panlasa. Haluin ng mabuti. Takpan at pakuluin sa mababang init ng 40 – 45 minuto o hanggang lumambot ang baboy.
3. Ihalo dito ang suka at wag galawin ng 2 o 3 minuto. Ihalo bago idagdag ang mga itlog ng pugo. Haluin hanggang matakpan ng sarsa ang mga itlog. Ienjoy !