How to make Baked Crispy Pata Recipe (non-deep fried Filipino style Roasted Pork Leg)

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Crispy Pata is a Filipino dish consisting of deep-fried pig trotters or knuckles served with a soy-vinegar dip. It can be served as party fare or an everyday dish. Traditional cooking is deep frying but in this recipe, we will be baking to use less oil and less mess to clean up after cooking. Same crunchiness as traditional cooking. Hope you also try and enjoy this delicious popular Filipino dish. 🙂

Ingredients

6.4lbs (2 legs) Pork Leg
2 tbsp Salt – https://amzn.to/30Mghhl
1 tbsp Pepper – https://amzn.to/2OXIJHy
3-4 Bay Leaves – https://amzn.to/2OUdCfY
7 cloves Garlic – https://amzn.to/3g1bhMp

[dipping sauce]

1/4 Red Onion – https://amzn.to/2ElgYa3
1 or 2 pcs Chili Pepper (optional) – https://amzn.to/2ZY862f
1/2 cup Soy Sauce – https://amzn.to/3hyW0CP
3/4 cup Vinegar – https://amzn.to/30PmxVN
1/2 tbsp Sugar(to taste) – https://amzn.to/3jIcMRE
Pepper (dash) – https://amzn.to/2OXIJHy

Steps

[boiling]

Add water in a pot and add the pork leg
Boil it for a couple of minutes to bring out the scum
Discard the water, rinse the pork leg
Put back the pork leg in the pot and add salt, pepper bay leaves and garlic
Boil it for 40 to 50 minutes or until the meat is tender
Remove from the pot, pat dry it and cool down in the fridge

[baking]

Preheat oven to 350F
Poke the meat with a fork
Scrub some salt on the pork leg
Lightly oil the skin
Bake for 1 hour 15 mins
Adjust the temperature to 470F and bake for an additional 30 minutes(flip the pork halfway or when the skin is crunchy) then bake until another side of the skin is crunchy as well

[dipping sauce]