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My Mom’s Epicurious Famous Filipino BBQ Marinade

This is the recipe for my Mom’s Filipino BBQ Marinade that I wrote about in a recent Epicurious essay.
Prep Time1 day
Cook Time45 minutes
Total Time1 day 45 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Filipino
Servings: 45 Skewers

Ingredients

  • 4 Pounds Pork Shoulder Cut into thin strips
  • 2 Cups Pineapple Juice
  • 1 Cup Coconut Aminos sub Soy Sauce
  • ½ Cup Coconut Sugar sub Brown Sugar
  • 1 Whole Head of Garlic Peeled Crushed and Diced
  • 1 Inch of Ginger Peeled and Diced
  • 2 Teaspoons of Salt omit if using Soy Sauce
  • 1 Teaspoon Black Pepper
  • Olive Oil for the Grill

Instructions

  • First cut the pork into thin strips and set that aside before making the marinade. In a 1 gallon plastic bag or a huge deep baking tray mix the marinade. Add everything and mix well until the sugar has dissolved. Taste is super important here and the reason why we didn’t pour everything over the raw meat.
  • Adjust the sweetness or the saltiness according to your taste. When you are satisfied add in the pork. Cover and leave to rest in the refrigerator overnight.
  • While it’s is marinating, place some wooden skewers in a shallow bowl and cover with water. This will help prevent the sticks from burning while grilling.
  • The next day take out the pork and start to skewer the meet. Depending on how long you cut the pork skewers 2-3 pieces on each stick. Place it back in the marinade until grilling time.
  • Coat the grill in olive oil and cook on medium to high heat for about 5-7 minutes on each side.

Notes

In my essay I wrote about the original ingredients using Soy Sauce and Brown Sugar.  You can still use those ingredients in the same quantities, just omitting the extra salt when you do. 
My family needs to keep track of our sugar and salt intake hence the deviation.  It actually still tastes exactly the same.
We also could not find pineapple juice with crushed chunks so we just used some regular pineapple just.  Again it didn't change the flavor at all.