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Chicken Curry

2010-06-26T23:08:00.002+08:00

My Lola's recipe for a simple chicken curry dish... pinoy style.

Chicken Curry

Ingredients:
potatoes, cut into quarters or cubes
carrots, cut into cubes
onions
garlic
chicken (bite-size pieces or cut to your liking)
salt
curry
evaporated milk

Prepare patatas & carrots, quartered, fry.
Igisa ang bawang sibuyas, ilagay ang manok na putol putol na.
Palambutin ang manok, sangkucha (saute chicken in onions and garlic). Lagyan ng kaunting asin.
Idagdag ang 2 kutsarang curry.
Lagyan ng sabaw (tubig), mga 2 baso. Pakuluin.
Isama ang patatas & carrots.
Pagkakulo, tanggalin sa apoy at lagyan ng gatas (evaporated milk) bago ihain.

Thai Green Mango Salad

2010-02-02T21:55:00.005+08:00

Here's another salad I initially tasted at a restaurant and wanted to duplicate it. I was craving for it the other day so I decided to make my own at home.

Thai Green Mango Salad

1/2 tsp finely chopped garlic (less if you don't want the strong garlic taste)
1 tsp chopped onions (also lessen if you don't want to have onion-breath!)
1/2 tsp chopped cilantro
1/2 tsp basil leaves (cut into thin strips)
1 tsp toasted coconut (you can use dessicated coconut and just heat in the toaster oven)
1-2 tsp ground roasted peanuts
2 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp fish sauce or patis (lessen this if u want to stay away from salty stuff!)
1 chili pepper (optional)
1 small green mango (peeled & shredded)
1 tbsp minced pork (optional)
1 tbsp dried shrimp (soaked in water)

Crush peanuts. Toast crushed peanuts & coconut in toaster oven.
Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
Voila!

*If you want it looking like a gourmet dish, you don't have to toss it up yet. Put the shredded mangoes first on your salad bowl/plate, then sprinkle the cilantro & basil. Sprinkle fish sauce. Add minced pork &/or shrimp. In a separate bowl, mix up the brown sugar, toasted peanuts & coconut, garlic and onions. Add this to finish off the salad. Top off with some chili pepper if you want and some cilantro & basil leaves.

Pesa

2009-09-27T14:37:00.005+08:00

Pesang Isda
Simple yet nutritious dish with fish & malunggay leaves.
Great with a side dish of ginisang itlog, kamatis & sibuyas.

Ingredients:

fish (Asuhos)

luya (ginger)
sibuyas (onions)

dahon ng sili o malunggay (chili pepper or malunggay leaves)

hugas bigas (rise washing)

asin o patis (salt or fish sauce)

Gumamit ng hugas bigas na pangatlong hugas. Ilagay sa kalan.

Lagyan ng luya at sibuyas.

Pagkakulo, idagdag ang Asuhos.

Kapag luto na ang isda, dagdagan ng asin o patis at dagdagan ng dahon ng sili o dahon ng malunggay.

Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20-30 minutes

Almondigas

2009-04-20T23:17:00.001+08:00

Almondigas also known as Bola-bola in Miso

1/2 kilo ground pork
1/4 kilo ground shrimp (optional)
3 stalks spring onions, chopped
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 egg, beaten
1 tbsp. oil
3 tbsp. all-purpose flour
1/2 cup misua (rice vermicelli)
2 gloves garlic, crushed
3 cups chicken (or shrimp) stock or water
salt and peppper to taste

Combine pork and shrimp, add chopped onion, beaten egg and flour. Season to taste. Mix well and shape into 1 " balls.

In a saucepan, heat oil. Saute the garlic and onion and add the chicken stock (or water). Bring to a boil. Drop the meat balls one by one into the stock. When cooked, add misua (rice vermicelli) and season to taste. Cook for a few minutes. Serve hot.

Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Yield: -- servings

Miso-Soy Glazed Fish

2008-08-25T08:49:00.000+08:00

4 teaspoons lite soy sauce
1 tablespoon maple syrup (or any pancake syrup)
2 teaspoons red miso (It comes in a paste)
1 garlic clove, mashed and minced
½ teaspoon sesame oil
4 - 1inch thick fish fillets (about 1.5 lbs)

Combine all ingredients except fish. Stir to dissolve miso.

Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Spray a little oil. Add fillets, skin side down. Press down lightly w/ spatula to sear skin. Cook 3 to 4 min. until skin is crisp.

Spoon half the sauce on fish. Transfer to oven. If no oven, oven top is still ok. Bake until fish is done. Spoon remaining sauce over hot fish and serve.

Vegetable Stir Fry

2008-07-25T08:40:00.001+08:00

1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 cups mushroom
4 to 5 cups sliced bok choy or any kind of pechay
1 cup short thin strips red bell pepper
1 med onion sliced
1 tablespoon lite soy sauce
1 tsp shiracha (Thai)
1 tsp sweet chili (Thai)
1 garlic clove, mashed and minced

Heat oil in skillet over high heat.
Add mushrooms & stirfry 1 min.
Add bok choy, red bell pepper, onion, garlic & stirfry 2 min.
Stir in the soysauce, shiracha, chili sauce and stir fry 1 min.

Serve hot.

Turkey Roll

2008-06-25T08:39:00.001+08:00

Combine ¾ cup of light mayo, w/at least ¾ cup cut cilantro, 1 clove garlic minced thin, 1 tsp lite soy sauce, 1 tbsp lime juice.

Cut up 4 slices (like PikNik shoe string potatoes) each of red bell pepper and green onion.

On a lettuce leaf, (Boston lettuce if you have that or any other kind that would be easy to roll up), put a slice of deli turkey or deli ham, put some of the cilantro mix, a slice of red bell pepper and a slice of green onion and roll up like a cigarette. Makes a good snack.

Corn and Shrimp Soup

2008-06-24T19:59:00.005+08:00

1/2 cup small shrimp (hipon na panggulay)
leftover pork piece with fat
3 hilaw na corn
3 bawang (3 cloves of garlic)
1 sibuyas (onion)
1-2 kamatis (tomato)
dahon ng sili o dahon ng malunggay (malunggay Publish Postleaves)
water
salt or patis to taste

Talupan ang corn.
Tanggalin ang kalahati ng corn.
Use sharp edge to take out half of corn grain.
Gamitin ang likod ng kutsilyo parasa susunod na kalahati para di matanggal ang busal.

Balatan ang shrimp.
Dikdikan ang balat, dagdagan ng kaunting tubig. Kuhanin ang sabaw at itabi.

Igisa ang bawang, sibuyas, kamatis, kapirasong baboy at ang tinalupan na hipon.
(Ilalaga muna ang baboy at putul-putulin ng maliit bago igisa)
Pwedeng gumamit ng taba ng baboy panggisa (papulahin muna ito para magkaroon ng mantika).

Idagdag ang corn at igisa pa ng kaunti.
Ilagay ang sabaw ng hipon na itinabi kanina. Haluin hanggang kumulo ang sabaw ng hipon.
Kung gusto labnawan, dagdagan ng tubig.

Bago ihain, dagdagan ng dahon ng sili o dahon ng malunggay.
Season to taste.

Salad Discovered at Kitchen

2008-06-19T21:50:00.005+08:00

There's a restaurant here called Kitchen. It has a logo like a capital K with a circle around it. The last time we ate there I ordered a salad... and thought, "hey, I could make this!!! I think I know exactly what the dressing is!". So here it is, my new salad discovery:

1/2 bag fresh romaine/spring lettuce
a couple of grapes
kesong puti (carabao cheese - walang ganyan sa States!)
queso de bola (or any salty cheese, probably cheddar or parmesan is ok)
flat beans (like the ones seen in mixed nuts, it kinda tastes like green peas??)
2 pilas ng suha (2 pomelo cloves??)

Combine all ingredients in a salad bowl.

For the dressing:
extra virgin olive oil
balsamic vinegar
sugar (brown sugar and/or Splenda, 2 small packets)

Combine or blend all ingredients for the dressing. Pour on top of your salad.
Voila!
Super simple ehh?? Super healthy pa!

Crab in Guava Sauce

2008-06-14T11:31:00.007+08:00

This recipe is a favorite of my family. My great-grandmother passed it on to my lola... and now I'm sharing it with you! Please remember this is from the Ramirez clan.

1/2 kilo hinog na bayabas (ripe guava)
3 crabs (medium, female, note: It is best to find female crabs for this with lots of crab fat -- the orange kind)
1/2 cup light brown sugar (2nd class)
garlic
onion
salt

Peel guava, slice and take out seeds. Pound guava flesh (dikdikin ang bayabas). Don't throw away the seeds yet. Put it in a strainer, add some water and mash to get the juice.

Tanggalin ang talukap ng crab (take out crab shell). Take out taba and put in a container. Cut crab in half.

Saute garlic, onion and guava. Add sugar. Add crab.
Add the guava juice (from the seeds).
Season with salt.

To make taba sauce:
Add calamansi (to taste), salt and a little water. Adjust water to find the right consistency.
Put in double boiler. Haluin hanggang lumapot at maluto na.

Notes:
3 medium crabs can be replaced with 4 small crabs if you can't find the big ones.
You can use male crabs but choose the fat ones with crab fat also.
If you get male crabs, sauce will be darker and the taba sauce will not taste as good (might be a little bitter).

Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 40-50 minutes
Yield: 4-5 servings

Sinigang na Baboy

2008-05-18T00:14:00.006+08:00

1/2 kilo pork, cut into serving size (pick pork pieces that have bone)
1 onion, sliced
2 pieces tomato (big), sliced
5 cups rice water
2 small radish, sliced
1 bundle kangkong, cut into 2 inch lengths
1 bundle sitaw, cut into 2 inch lengths
paasim: 1 pack Knorr sinigang mix or fresh sampalok if you like
salt or patis to taste

Combine pangatlong hugas bigas (rice water, 3rd wash) or water, onions and tomatoes in a pot. Boil.
Add pork and boil until tender in low heat.
When pork is almost done, add the vegetables (string beans, kangkong, eggplant, okra, radish) and the paasim (sinigang mix).
Cook until done. Season to taste.

Notes:

Adjust amount of sinigang mix or fresh sampalok to the degree of sourness you would like. If using fresh sampalok, add this earlier along with onions and tomatoes to tenderize it.
Remove sampalok when tender then mash it inside a strainer. Let the juice fall back into the pot.

Adobong Chicken

2008-05-14T12:34:00.006+08:00

A popular Pinoy favorite, Adobong Chicken (or Chicken Adobo) can have different recipe versions. It can also be cooked with baboy (pork) or just all baboy and no chicken. Some people also like to add some sugar to it to make the sauce a little sweet. It's a real easy meal to prepare too.

This version is a combination of my mom's and my lola's recipe for Adobong Chicken. So, here goes my first recipe post:

Adobong Chicken

Ingredients:
1 kilo chicken (around 2.5 lbs or 4 medium chicken legs if ur "stateside")
1/3 cup white vinegar
2 tablespoon garlic
1 bay leaf, crushed
2-3 tablespoon toyo (soy sauce)
salt to taste
1/2 teaspoon paminta (peppercorn or black pepper)
water
1 tablespoon oil

Combine chicken, vinegar, 1 tbsp. garlic and salt and pepper. Bring to a boil.
Simmer uncovered until tender, around 10 minutes.
If the sauce is reduced, add about 1/2 cup water.
Remove the chicken from the sauce.
In a separate pan, fry chicken until browned well.
Add soy sauce and bayleaf. Simmer for a few more minutes.
Add the sauce again.

Notes:

Vinegar amount is dependent on the kaasiman or sourness level. I guess you gotta do some taste-testing or trial-and-error on this to know the proper amount.
There are various versions of this recipe. See below for more links about Filipino food:

photo courtesy of arpeelazar0.com

Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 40-50 minutes
Yield: 3-4 servings