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01.21.2012

Crispy Pata Salad / Deep Fried Pork Knuckles Salad

Crispy Pata Salad

My birthday falls on the most sinful month of the year — December!

December is the month when most people gather for reunions  and parties. There’s family reunions, Christmas reunions, christmas parties and birthday parties.

December is the month of feasting on the fattiest, most sugar-laden and most calorie-packed food.

And that is what I usually want on my birthday…well, I also want one of those hampton bay ceiling fans but that’s another story.

I think that’s what most people want —- everything deep fried and all the decadent desserts that you can think of.

Thanks to Pearl of  My Sassy Chef { who I just met in person recently} and Thea of Words and Nosh. They are January’s Kulinarya Cooking Club Challenge hosts and they came up with a cooking challenge: Prepare a healthy version of your favorite birthday dish.

This is a very timely challenge because I’m trying to shed a few pounds…

And one of my most favorite birthday dish happens to be Crispy Pata {Deep Fried Pork Knuckles}.

Good thing I’ve figured out a healthier way to serve it.

No, not with beer as a “pulutan”, hee……as a salad, silly.

I don’t like being deprived, so serving this in a salad satisfies my craving for crispy pata and yet it gives me a serving of greens as well.

Crispy Pata Salad

For lunch, I had it today as Crispy Pata Salad……while everybody’s having it with “extra” rice…

I knew I had it coming….

Crispy Pata Salad / Deep Fried Pork Knuckles Salad
 
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Author: The Peach Kitchen
Ingredients
  • 1 whole pork leg, cleaned
  • 5 pcs Bay leaf
  • 5 garlic cloves, minced
  • a pitcher of water
  • 3 tbsp salt
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp peppercorns
  • 10 pcs romaine lettuce leaves, teared
  • 2 pcs red globe radishes, sliced thinly
  • 4 cups cooking oil
for the Red Onion Balsamic Vinaigrette
  • 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 2 tsp brown sugar
  • 1 tsp chopped red onion
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 6 tbsp olive oil
Directions
  1. Place pork leg in a large pot and pour in water, add salt, sugar, peppercorn and bay leaf. Make sure all the meat is covered with water.
  2. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 2 hours or until the meat is tender.
  3. Remove pork leg from pot and let cool to room temperature.
  4. Rub with salt and pepper and let stand for a few minutes to absorb the rub.
  5. Deep-fry in very hot oil until golden brown. Be very careful in frying the pork leg.
  6. For the balsamic vinaigrette: Whisk vinegar, sugar, salt, red onion and pepper until sugar and salt are dissolved. Whisk in olive oil until the mixture come together in a thick consistency. Taste and adjust the seasoning depending on your preference. Put more sugar if you want it sweeter and add salt for a saltier vinaigrette.
  7. Cut some pork knuckle meat and crispy skin into strips and toss with teared romaine lettuce, red globe radish slices and red onion balsamic vinaigrette.
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You can also include other veggies like jicama, tomato, cucumber and a sprinkling of nuts.

OR you can also serve this as lettuce wraps with the vinaigrette as dipping sauce…Just wrap a piece of meat, a slice of radish and other veggies inside a lettuce leaf and seal with a toothpick.

Crispy Pata Salad

Kulinarya was started by a group of Filipino foodies living in Sydney, who are passionate about the Filipino culture and its colourful cuisine. Each month we will showcase a new dish along with their family recipes. By sharing these recipes, we hope you find the same passion and love for Filipino Food as we do.

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Filed Under: Kulinarya Cooking Club, Pork, pork hock recipe, Salads, Yummy Sunday Tagged With: best crispy pata recipe, creative crispy pata recipe

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  1. chef_d says

    01.21.2012 at 7:46 pm

    Oh delicious! I love Crispy Pata and your healthy take!

    Reply
  2. U8mypinkcookies says

    01.21.2012 at 8:17 pm

    sinful salad. LOL

    Reply
  3. Maureen says

    01.21.2012 at 9:15 pm

    Sinfully delicious salad ! I’ve never had crispy (or any other type) of Pata but this looks great!

    Reply
  4. Yummychunklet says

    01.21.2012 at 9:43 pm

    This is a delicious salad! My mom makes a version of this at home.

    Reply
  5. J says

    01.21.2012 at 10:09 pm

    Wow sarap niyan! Kaso baka maubos ko yung crispy pata bago yung salad hehehe

    Reply
  6. Mbel says

    01.21.2012 at 11:18 pm

    That looks super delish!

    Reply
  7. Rome Diwa says

    01.22.2012 at 12:03 am

    parang mas gusto ko yung sa likod with extra rice

    Reply
  8. Wok with Ray says

    01.22.2012 at 12:14 am

    Wow Peach, crispy pata salad! I love you take on this salad and it will be a hit in my house.  Love your idea, very creative.

    Reply
  9. malou says

    01.22.2012 at 5:43 am

    crispy pata salad… oh boy i will have a plate of that anytime haha. belated happy birthday!

    Reply
  10. Maris Callahan says

    01.22.2012 at 7:41 am

    Looks interesting! Hope you had a fun birthday!

    Reply
  11. Pearl says

    01.22.2012 at 8:12 am

    I don’t think I could resist rice with your crispy pata, so I’ll have both rice and a salad side dish with it na lang! 🙂

    Reply
  12. Betty Ann @Mango_Queen says

    01.22.2012 at 12:09 pm

    Oh I love this crispy pata EVEN if it’s not yet my birthday ! Thanks for sharing the recipe !

    Reply
  13. Rosa May says

    01.22.2012 at 9:15 pm

    Happy belated Birthday (I was also born in Dcemeber – 25th).

    That salad looks amazing and the pork leg looks sinfully scrummy.

    Cheers,

    Rosa

    Reply
  14. Sahm's Dining Diary says

    01.22.2012 at 9:22 pm

    The salad looks so tempting! Can I have a taste.. 

    Reply
  15. Gio says

    01.22.2012 at 9:27 pm

    crispy pata with lettuce = strangely enough it makes perfect sense! hahaha great as usual! 😀 

    Reply
  16. Oggi says

    01.23.2012 at 8:18 am

    This is even healthier than Crispy Pata Caesar’s salad…yum! 

    Reply
  17. Margarita @ Pinoy Kitchenette says

    01.23.2012 at 8:26 am

    Oh my oh my! ang sarap nyan! 

    Reply
  18. Theodore Salonga says

    01.23.2012 at 9:30 am

    This looks good !!! i love crispy pata …and yes, extra rice please =)

    Reply
  19. Tina(PinayInTexas) says

    01.23.2012 at 11:32 am

    Nice take on this month’s challenge! I have tried using crispy pata in salad  so I know how good it is! Love the vinaigrette you used!

    Reply
  20. Words and Nosh says

    01.23.2012 at 2:00 pm

    mmm, crispy pata! Total decadence!

    Reply
  21. Isabel of My Expat Mommy says

    01.23.2012 at 5:16 pm

    a healthy but sinfully delicious dish, i just wish I’d be able to control myself with that crispy pata! nice take on the healthy challenge, who say’s healthy is boring? 

    Reply
  22. Blond Duck says

    01.23.2012 at 8:33 pm

    What a great birthday feast!

    Reply
  23. Joanne says

    01.23.2012 at 9:16 pm

    Sometimes eating healthy takes compromise…a little bit of deep fried combined with a lotta bit of lettuce sounds good to me!

    Reply
  24. Lala@Foodiemomster says

    01.23.2012 at 9:40 pm

    Yum! I love crispy pata! adding the greens will definitely sweep some of the guilt for pigging out.

    Reply
  25. Leah H says

    01.23.2012 at 10:57 pm

    That is so yummy!!! Thank’s for sharing the recipe:)

    Visiting for YS! Hope you can stop by:)http://www.sweethomephilippines.com/2012/01/black-cherry-and-butter-pecan-ice-cream.html

    Reply
  26. stacy says

    01.24.2012 at 12:39 am

    That’s a good balanced meal at least =)

    Reply
  27. Momi Stef says

    01.24.2012 at 6:37 am

    Wow! Definitely something to try. Thanks! Visiting from YS.

    Reply
  28. Anonymous says

    01.25.2012 at 12:49 am

    I have always loved crispy pata. The salad looks wonderful.

    Reply
  29. Adora's Box says

    01.25.2012 at 3:08 am

    I’ll have crispy pata instead of croutons on my salad any day. That sounds like a good combination.

    Reply
  30. Marni H says

    01.26.2012 at 9:10 am

    It’s low-carb!

    Reply

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