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This sauce is typically served with roasted meat dishes. [1] A similar dipping sauce used for grilled meats like inihaw is toyo, suka, at sili (literally "soy sauce, vinegar, and chili"). It is made of soy sauce, vinegar, and siling labuyo with some opting to add diced onions and/or garlic and a seasoning of sugar and/or black pepper. [2]
A more modern twist on the classic Filipino kare-kare uses a different dish as the main meat for this dish. Pork is one of the most economical and easiest meats to cook. The most common meats repurposed for kare-kare are lechon (which is also used for lechon kawali) [4] and crispy pata (crispy pork shank).
Lechon manok is the Filipino take on rotisserie chicken. Available in many hole-in-the-wall stands or restaurant chains (e.g. Andok's, Baliwag, Toto's, Sr. Pedro's, G.S. Pagtakhan's), it is typically a specially seasoned chicken roasted over a charcoal flame served with "sarsa" or lechon sauce made from mashed pork liver, starch, sugar, and spices.
Paksiw na lechon is leftover spit-roasted pork meat that is cooked with vinegar, garlic, onions, black pepper, and some water. The Luzon version adds ground liver or liver spread ("lechon sauce"), while the Visayan versions do not. [12] [13] [14]
Mang Tomas (Filipino for "Mr. Tomas") is a condiment brand owned by NutriAsia.Its core product is lechon sauce.The brand was developed by Hernan and Ismael Reyes in the late 1980s after they purchased the lechon sauce recipe of Aling Pitang lechon shop located in Quiapo, Manila.
Paksiw na lechon is roasted pork lechon meat cooked in lechon sauce or its component ingredients of vinegar, garlic, onions, black pepper and ground liver or liver spread and some water. The cooking reduces the sauce so that by the end the meat is almost being fried. Palapa: Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte Vegetable dish
The term lechon has also become generalized as a loanword for anything spit-roasted over coals. It is also used for other Filipino dishes like lechon manok (native roasted chicken) and lechon baka (a whole cow spit-roasted Filipino-style), thus lechon made from whole pig is differentiated as "lechon baboy" (literally "pig lechon"). [22] [23] [24]
Lechon kawali, also known as lechon de carajay or litsong kawali in Tagalog, is a Filipino recipe consisting of pork belly slabs deep-fried in a pan or wok (kawali).It is seasoned beforehand, cooked then served in cubes.