Food: Meat - Pulutan, Pulotan

Pulutan, in english, means wine chaser. It is a grilled small animal's breast (pitso) or pig's belly chopped into 1/2 inch cube with a lot of spices. Aside from being a wine chaser, it is also consumed as a viand.

Ingredients and Materials
# 1 kl of swine breast, should have no bone and contain part of the red meat, some fats and the skin
# 1 cup of chopped red onions
# 1/2 cup of leeks
# 3/4 tablespoon of salt
# 1/4 cup of lemon or calamansi juice
# a grille
# chopping knife and board
# a large bowl

Procedure

GRILL: Grill the pork until it is cooked.

CHOP: Chop the grilled pork into 1/2 inch cubes and put them into the bowl.

SPICE UP: Put all the spices and additives into the pulutan bowl – the onions, leeks, salt, lemon or calamansi juice and optional (pepper, vinegar, soy sauce), and mix them well.

MIX WELL: And after mixing them well, the pulutan is ready for consumption.

Consumption:

Usually, when the Highlanders butcher pig/s for an occasion or feast, it is the pulutan that is first cooked and prepared as an article for the wine or liquor the butchers and other folks in the butchering and cooking area are sociably drinking while finishing up all the cuisine works for the occasion.

The pulutan presented here in this blog is the kind that could be consumed with rice during meal time.