Instant Pot Pork Adobo

Adobo is life. It’s the first Filipino recipe I ever learned making because adobo is like a national Filipino dish. Adobo is like the Spanish’s tortilla de patata. The best adobo is always the adobo your mom makes.

As a working mom in Madrid, though, I really need recipes that are easy to make. And this Instant Pot Pork Adobo is one of those recipes. You just put all the ingredients in the Instant Pot, wait for the desired time, and it’s finished. You don’t need to hover around the stove watching whether you’re burning the dish or it’s cooking correctly. The Instant Pot is definitely the working mom’s best friend. If you still don’t have it, please buy it already because it’s going to make your life so much easier.

Instant Pot Pork Adobo

Classic Filipino recipe made in the Instant Pot

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Prep Time 35 minutes mins

Servings 4 people

Equipment

• 1 Instant Pot

Ingredients

  

Sauce/Marinade

• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 head garlic minced
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp whole black peppercorns slightly cracked
• 3 pcs dried bay leaves

Adobo (Instant Pot)

• 1 large onion sliced in rounds
• 2 lbs pork cubes
• 2 tbsp pate optional

Instructions

 

• Mix together in a bowl all the ingredients for the sauce / marinade (vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, olive oil, brown sugar, peppercorns, bay leaves).
• Line the Instant Pot with the sliced onion rounds.
• Place the pork cubes on top of the sliced onions.
• Pour all the sauce / marinade over the pork cubes.
• Close the Instant Pot lid. Make sure the pointer is in the sealing position. Set Instant pot to pressure cook (high) for 10 minutes. Once done, let the pressure naturally release for at least 15 minutes. Then quick release the rest of the pressure.
• Open the lid, put the Instant Pot on "saute" mode, and add the pate. Mix it with the vinegar-soy mixture.
• Serve with rice and scrambled eggs.