Ninas Lechon Sauce Recipes

LECHON SAUCE

Steps:

• In a sauce pot over medium heat, heat oil. Add onions and garlic and cook until softened.
• Add vinegar and water and bring to a boil, uncovered, for about 2 to 3 minutes (this to cook off the vinegar).
• Add sugar, salt and pepper and continue to cook, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
• Add mashed cooked liver and continue to cook, stirring regularly until well-combined.
• Add breadcrumbs and cook, stirring well, until sauce is thickened as desired. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Serve as dipping sauce.

LECHON MANOK (PINOY ROAST CHICKEN)

Steps:

• Combine onion, garlic, calamansi juice, fish sauce, salt, black pepper, and brown sugar in a bowl to make marinade.
• Place chicken in a roasting pan. Rub marinade over chicken, including inside the cavity. Let chicken marinate in the refrigerator, about 4 hours. Reserve leftover marinade in the bowl.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Trim lemongrass, discarding tough outer stalks. Pound inner stalks with a heavy object until bruised. Place lemongrass and bay leaves inside the chicken cavity.
• Stir oil into the leftover marinade in the bowl.
• Roast chicken in the preheated oven, basting with the oil mixture from time to time, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh reads 165 degrees F (74 degrees C), 60 to 90 minutes.
• Remove chicken from the oven and allow to rest in a warm area for 15 minutes before serving.

NINA'S LECHON SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic until onion is soft, 5 to 10 minutes. Add liver pate; cook and stir until heated through, about 5 minutes.
• Mix apple cider vinegar and brown sugar into pate mixture; cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, 1 to 2 minutes. Add water and bread crumbs; cook and stir until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove skillet from heat and cool lechon sauce for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Pour sauce into a blender no more than half full. Cover and hold lid down; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend.