Receta Lauya Recipe (Ilokano Pork Knuckles Stew)

Lauya is an Ilokano dish it usually consist of pork knuckles and vegetables but some variations uses beef. Lauya is basically a counterpart of the tagalog nilaga dish and obviously the word “lauya” in Ilokano is “nilaga” in tagalog or in English, boiled. cooking this dish is simple, just throw everything in the pot but this recipe has one more step of smoking the pork knuckles that has a more savory country style 3 kilos pork knuckes or pata ng baboy 1 head cabbage, sliced into strips 4 large potatoes, peeled and quartered 1 head of garlic, crushed 4 medium size onions, chopped 6 pcs crushed bay leaves 1 Tbsp. ground black pepper 3/4 cup patis or fish sauce 1/8 cup sukang Iloko (raw sugarcane vinegar) 4 liters of water…