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Pork trotters, slow-cooked Filipino style

Pork trotters, slow-cooked Filipino style

Main dishes

Philippine pork knuckle, cooked in three stages: boiled, then fried, and finally steamed in a sauce made with oysters, rice wine, and dried squid.

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Recipe from Yivan000 (Wikibooks), adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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Pata tim is a Filipino dish inspired by Chinese cuisine, featuring pork shanks. It is known for its tender and juicy texture, and is typically coated in a shrimp-based sauce and served with lettuce.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time3 hr
  • Total3 hr 30 min
  • DifficultyHard
  • CostModerate
  • Cooking methodsteam
  • Estimated cost$40.04 $6.67 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 7, 2026.

Ingredients

6 people
  • $37.42
  • $0.18
  • $0.41
  • $0.10
  • $0.90
  • $0.35
  • $0.04
  • $0.43
  • $0.08
  • $0.04
  • $0.09

Prices from US supermarkets for 8 of 11 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. In a pot, bring the shank to a boil in enough water to soften it.
  2. Remove it and save the cooking broth.
  3. Brush the shrimp with soy sauce and fry it in hot oil until it turns golden brown.
  4. Bring water to a boil in a pot and submerge the shank in it to remove the fat.
  5. Take it out and remove the bones. ≈ 8 min
  6. Place the meat in an oven-safe dish or a hollow plate. ≈ 3 min
  7. Heat up some oil paint.
  8. Let’s revisit garlic and squid.
  9. Arrange them on the pork. ≈ 3 min
  10. Combine the oyster sauce, rice wine, fish sauce, cornstarch dissolved in water, sesame oil, and soy sauce. ≈ 4 min
  11. Pour this sauce over the pork. ≈ 3 min
  12. Steam for 1 hour, or until the pork is cooked through.
  13. Drizzle some oil paint over the Chinese cabbage or lettuce.
  14. Arrange them on a serving dish. ≈ 2 min
  15. Place the cooked patty on top. ≈ 3 min

The bill

Pork trotters, slow-cooked Filipino style

  • 1.5 kg of pork shanks$37.42
  • 2 tablespoons of soy sauce$0.18
  • 240 ml of frying oil paint$0.41
  • 2 cloves of garlic, chopped$0.10
  • 50 g of dried squid, soaked in water and chopped$0.90
  • 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce$0.35
  • 1 tablespoon of rice wine$0.04
  • 1 tablespoon of fish sauce$0.43
  • 2 tablespoons of Maizena$0.08
  • 1/4 cup of sesame oil$0.04
  • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce (for the sauce)$0.09

Total$40.04

that's $6.67 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Equipment

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg of pork shanks
  • 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 240 ml of frying oil paint
  • 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
  • 50 g of dried squid, soaked in water and chopped
  • 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of rice wine
  • 1 tablespoon of fish sauce
  • 2 tablespoons of Maizena
  • 240 ml of water
  • 1/4 cup of sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce (for the sauce)
  • 1 head of lettuce or 1 Chinese cabbage, chopped

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