Humba (Braised Pork Belly) Recipe

Humba is a sweet pork dish is popular in the southern parts of the Philippines and is considered as one of the delicacies of the region somewhere in Visayas and Mindanao. Pork belly, pork hocks, and pork ham are the 3 most common pig parts used to make this delightful masterpiece. In this Filipino pork dish, the traditional way of cooking humba is to slowly simmer of pork belly in a mixture of pineapple juice, tausi (salted black beans), vinegar, dark brown sugar, garlic, onions, peppercorns, dried banana blossoms and oregano.