Oh, yes! That’s what I wanted to ask about. Thank you! Been using your website for quite sometime now. It’s very helpful. 🙂

Grace, I think that you were able to hit post comment before finishing your question. Let me take a stab and see if I can guess what you were about to ask. 🙂

Are you asking how the use of raw ground pork can affect the overall taste of the dish? If so, it has a huge effect because the original ingredient for this recipe (which is kaldereta made from ground beef), is already a dish by itself. This means that flavor is already present and it does not need any additional seasonings. If you use plain uncooked ground pork, it will be bland, and it won’t taste the same even if you add some salt and other spices.

Secondly, it will also affect the texture and quality of the bread crumbs. Since you will need to deep fry it for a longer amount of time (to make sure that the meat gets cooked properly), the bread crumbs will likely get burnt during the process.

Having said that, I will leave it up to you if you want to decide to use uncooked ground pork.