Asian Food Recipe For You

Down-to-the- Bones Delicious Pork Humba or Braised Pork Belly with Sugar Recipe

2011-09-21T12:34:00.000-07:00

Without a doubt, pork humba or in English term braised pork belly is one of the famous Philippine recipes. This recipe is never absent in big events such as fiesta celebration, annual birthday, graduation event, batch reunion, special gatherings and to any special occasion. Do you know how to cook pork humba?

If you are a mommy or a daddy with kids, I am pretty sure that you have tried this recipe for how many times, am I correct? If it’s been a long time that you haven’t eaten this recipe of pork humba, can’t be avoided to eat more and more. Once served in the dining table; three cups of rice or one plate of rice is not enough to complete your meal. There many people who likes to eat frequently pork humba while others don’t like because of fatty taste.

Pork can be cook to any kind of recipe. Expert chef knows how to arrive with perfect taste using pork as main ingredients. Pork is the main ingredients of cooking roasted pork, pork ginger stew, menudo and etcetera. No matter recipe you may cook, once pork is used as the main ingredients, it will result to a perfect taste. Can I share to you how to cook pork humba or Braised Pork Belly? Would you like to learn how to cook this? Either you are located in the Philippines or to any countries all over the world; you can still cook this recipe for your family and friends. Now, here is the recipe.

Ingredients of Pork Humba:

1/2 kilo pork belly, cut in cubes

1 tablespoon garlic, crushed

1 small onion; chopped

1/3 cup vinegar

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup brown sugar

3 bay leaves

1 cup rice water

1/4 tablespoon ground black pepper

1 tablespoon salted black beans (optional)

Cooking oil

Cooking Instructions of Pork Humba:

Note: You need to marinate first the pork in soy sauce and pepper for 1 hour so that the taste of soy sauce will deeply absorbed to the pork.

First, you need to sauté garlic and onion. Next, you may add pork from the marinade and bay leaves. Consequently, sauté or stir fry for few minutes awaiting pork begins to provide its greasy fat. Next, add rice water, and after that bring it to a simmer until the majority of the water has fade away or evaporated. Subsequently, put in vinegar however do not mix sequentially not to over vinegary the taste. Then, boil for few minutes, plus add the brown sugar stirring occasionally. Boil it until a saucy evenness is reached. Lastly, adjust the flavor with soy sauce according to your taste. Serve hot with lots of extra rice!

Beach Choice Fish Salad or Kinilaw Salad Recipe

2011-09-14T11:26:00.000-07:00

Who among your family circle likes to eat fish salad? Do you like this recipe? For me, I like this too. Why most people like to eat fish salad? The main explanation is fresh fish salad is taster plus with vegetables than cook fish. Where this recipe does usually prepared? Those are several queries to tackle on while this article went through.

Fish salad or in tagalog term “Kinilaw” salad is one of the famous recipes in the Philippines. How about your country? Do you often prepare this recipe when your family will get together or have some picnic or reunion? Beach party or reunion is one of the family gathering and normally grilled pork loin along with fish salad are the two main ingredients when it comes family gathering at the beach or even in the wide field for family picnic. Have you tried preparing fish salad during family reunion? If you had tried, how’s the taste and experienced? When you say fish salad, it can be simple fish salad or with some vegetables. For me, eating fish salad while at the beach seems so challenging because normally this recipe is mixed with spicy hot chili. Therefore, it’s hot. When food is spicy, so you need to eat or consume faster. Swimming under the sea will easily make you hungry. Fish salad is the best recipe for swimming. Some people all over the world will prepare grilled pork or fish while swimming.

I know that some of you had already tried fish salad but for those who haven’t tried yet, here is the recipe for fish salad or kinilaw salad.

Ingredients:

1 kilo fish fillets, cut into cubes

1 cup vinegar

25 pieces calamansi/lemon

3 pieces onion bulbs, minced

1 teaspoon ground pepper

½ teaspoon vetsin /seasoning

½ kilo carrots, shredded

½ kilo cabbage, shredded

Salt to taste

2-3 cups mayonnaise

2-3 pieces pounded siling labuyo or red pepper chili

How to Prepare:

You must soak fish in vinegar for one hour. Then deplete vinegar, chopped ginger, vetsin/seasoning as well as red pepper chili or siling labuyo. Consequently, add calamansi. Let it stand for 30 minutes to one hour. Drain all the liquid; add tattered or shredded carrots as well as the cabbage. Next, add mayonnaise. Lastly, you must chill the fish salad ahead of serving to have perfect taste.

Every time you plan to have beach party, just try and include this recipe for complete enjoyment. It is healthy salad with cabbage and carrots. Enjoy swimming.

Steps in Cooking Perfect Filipino Style Chicken Curry Recipe

2011-09-04T23:44:00.000-07:00

How many times have you been eating chicken curry dish? Do you often eat this tasty dish? If so, how’s the flavor? I know you have a great experienced while you tasted chicken curry.

To give you a little background, chicken curry is a universal dish in South Asian food preparation dish accepted in South Asia particularly in Pakistan & India, Bangladesh, East Asia, United Kingdom, Canada along with the Caribbean. Plainly, a distinctive curry is made up of chicken in an onion, tomato, along with yogurt-based pulp, flavored with ginger, garlic, chillies along with a mixture of seasoning, regularly as well as cumin, cinnamon, cardamom. Curry Chicken is occasionally completed in the midst of pre-made curry powder.

Additionally, milk is every so often added to reduce or decrease the sharp taste or tartness.

Who likes spicy taste? Even though, I don’t like spicy taste because it can never make my stomach full if mixed with spicy flavor. I kept on drinking water to remove the pungent taste that really perspire me. However if a dish has a little chili, it will be okay for me. Besides, can you guess where chicken curry dish is prepared? Usually, this can be seen and being prepared in birthdays as well as any kind of parties in the Philippines.

Though, I prepared this dish rarely because I don’t like spicy flavor, I have a recipe for you to try. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

2-3 tbsp. oil

3 potatoes, peeled, quartered and fried

1 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 large onion, quartered

1 tbsp. patis (fish sauce)

3 tbsp. curry powder

Salt and pepper

1 cup water

1 red bell pepper, cut into big squares

1 green bell pepper, cut into big squares

3 celery stalks, cut into 1-1/2” long

1 cup coconut milk or evaporated milk

Procedure of Cooking:

In a sauce pan, you will fry potatoes. Then you set aside. The next procedure is in the same pan; fry up chicken pieces until it will turn to brown a little. Consequently, add garlic and onion. You need to sauté for a few minutes awaiting soft. The next step is pour in patis or fish sauce as well as seasons it with curry powder, salt and pepper. You need to stir for 2 minutes. Then add water. After adding water, you can cover it and bring to a simmer. You need to lower the heat; next, add celery, bell peppers as well as fried potatoes. Boil for 3 minutes otherwise until half done. After that, add milk and stir rarely or occasionally. Lastly, you must cook for an additional 7 minutes or lesser after with evaporated milk because the liquids will become curled. Now, you can remove from heat. Serve hot with extra rice. I am sure you can eat plenty because it’s spicy.

You can include this recipe if you are up with the business like restaurant. Many stranger people or customer likes to eat chicken curry.

Grilled Pork Loin With BBQ Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, and Glazed Vegetables

2011-09-03T02:34:00.000-07:00

Grilled pork with barbecue sauce is one of the beach recipes that really have the super like taste. People around the world use and like to prepare this recipe because this fits to beach parties or family beach party. Either you are in USA or Europe, this recipe is the best if planning to go a beach or a picnic in a wide field. Have try to eat grilled pork with barbecue sauce?

Of course you often ate this food, but below; I bring to the new recipe that is different from other recipe available via internet. This recipe is mixed with mashed potatoes and glazed vegetables. Not that all, it has also BBQ sauce to perfect the taste. When you say glazed vegetables, it is full of vitamins which are necessary to the body. If you like pork so much to have it grilled, I have provided below the recipe for you to follow through. Just try this recipe below; I am sure you will like to prepare this again and again.

Barbecue Sauce

Ingredients:

1 tbsp. vegetable oil

1 pc small onion, diced

4 cloves garlic, minced

1 pc dried chili

6 tbsp. brown sugar

¼ cup catsup

6 tbsp. ground black pepper

½ cup water

Procedure:

1.) Heat vegetable oil in a pan.

2.) Sauté garlic, onion, and chili until light brown.

3.) Add brown sugar, catsup, soy sauce, ground black pepper and water.

4.) Simmer for 10 minutes.

5.) Puree in a blender and check seasoning.

6.) Set aside half for sauce and the other half for marinade.

GRILLED PORK LOIN

Ingredients:

4 pieces Pork loin (1-inch thick and skin removed)

½ cup BBQ marinade

¼ cup vegetable oil

Procedure:

1) Marinate the pork loin in the BBQ marinade for at least four hours in the chiller.

2) Preheat a clean grill.

3) Grill the pork loin for two minutes on each side while basting with the marinade and vegetable oil.

4) Finish in a 350F oven for 10 minutes.

5) Cover with foil to keep warm.

MASHED POTATO

Ingredients:

500g potato, peeled and quartered

2L water

2 tbsp. salt

2 tbsp. unsalted butter/margarine

1/8 tsp. ground white pepper

1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg

½ cup milk

Procedure:

1.) Simmer potato in salted water.

2.) When potato is tender, drain water and mash potato with a ricer or whisk.

3.) Melt butter in a pan and add mashed potato.

4.) Soften mixture with milk. Mix lightly until well incorporated.

5.) Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

GLAZED VEGETABLES

Ingredients:

200g carrot, tourneed or cut into sticks (batons)

100g snow peas, trimmed

2L water

2 tbsp. salt

2 tbsp. unsalted butter

½ tsp. sugar

1/8 tsp. ground white pepper

¼ tsp. parsley, minced

Procedure:

1.) Boil salted water.

2.) Blanch vegetables and set aside.

3.) Melt butter in a pan.

4.) Sauté vegetables and season with salt, pepper, and sugar.

5.) Finish with minced parsley.

Assembly:

1.) Place mashed potato, vegetables, and grilled pork loin onto a plate.

2.) Drizzle BBQ sauce on top and on the sides.

3.) Garnish with minced parsley.

Yield: Four Servings

Famous Filipino- Style Pancit Bihon Recipe

2011-09-01T12:10:00.000-07:00

Even if I will not ask you, this kind of Filipino-style Pancit bihon is one of the common recipes that you had eaten plenty of times, right? However, although we ate this frequently; we use to prepare pancit bihon recipe in any special occasion like birthday’s and party.
The basis why most Filipino wants to prepare pancit in special occasion like birthdays is that it symbolizes long life and good health to the birthday celebrant. That’s why the majority Filipino prepare pancit during birthday celebration.

Online researched will provide you various pancit recipes like pancit batchoy, pancit bihon guisado, pancit canton, pancit lomi, pancit luglug, pancit palabok and a lot more. All of them symbolize long life as well as good health. But usually, birthday celebration preferred pancit bihon or pancit bam-e (a mixture of bihon and canton/fresh pancit.

As a short background of this recipe, pancit or pansit is the word for noodles in Filipino cooking. Noodles were initiated into the Philippines through the Chinese along with have been accepted into neighboring cuisine. The word pancit is consequential from the Hokkien pian i sit (which means "something conveniently cooked fast).

Ingredients

1 lb. chicken, 1 lb. pork and 1/3 lb. med. shrimp, shell and cut 1/2 inch

1/4 c. vegetable oil

1 med. onion, thin sliced

1 tbsp. fish sauce

1 c. cabbage, finely shredded

1/2 c. celery cut in thin strips

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 c. broth from chicken and pork

1 lb. Bihon (rice sticks) soaked in hot water 15 minutes or until soft then drained and set aside

2 cloves garlic, crushed

2 tbsp. soy sauce

1 c. French cut green beans

1 carrot, cut into matchsticks

1/8 tsp. pepper

1 tsp. MSG, optional/seasoning

Procedure in cooking

First, boil chicken and pork in 1 1/2 cups water intended for 15 minutes. Then, drain set aside sou/broth. Slice meats into little pieces, remove any bones. The next step is ready all additional ingredients independently on a tray. In hot oil, sauté onion until turns transparent; add garlic mix few minutes, put meats, and mix fry for 5 minutes. After that, add shrimp, soy and fish sauces, mix again and cook for 5 minutes. On high heat, add green beans, cabbage, carrots and celery mix frying with each addition. Then, seasoned it, you will add broth 1 cup to begin, let it boil and then add rice sticks, trim down heat headed for low as well as mix and cook for 3 minutes. If too dry, you can add more broth. Lastly, move to a hot serving dish as well as decorate with solid boiled egg wedges, sliced green onions, plus lemon wedges and soy and fish sauces on the side. Serve while hot.

Pancit bihon is good in snacks as sandwich or a viand with plain rice.

Easy- To-Cook Binangkal or Fried Bread Recipe

2011-08-29T19:32:00.000-07:00

Who likes binangkal or fried bread? Maybe, you will laugh as you read the word “binangkal”. Me, I laugh too because binangkal is one of the common native foods in Philippines or in other words, this food recipe was started to cooking long time ago during the time of ancient old folks in the Philippines. Binangkal is recognized in the Philippines and most Filipino likes to eat this kind of food especially in the morning as partner of coffee or milk.

Binangkal is a food which children and adult likes to bite. It is suited for snacks or in the morning with coffee. It is tasty because is coated with sesame seeds plus it has milk and egg. If milk and egg is mix to a certain recipe, the outcome is perfect taste.

Fried bread recipe is an easy –to-cook. You will just fried them all and finish. But how to prepare all the ingredients and what are the main ingredients in order to come up with super like yummy binangkal? If you live abroad or even you are not in the Philippines, you simply cook fried bread as long as your ingredients are complete. Here is the recipe of cooking binangkal or fried bread recipe.

Ingredients:

Note: you can make 40 to 50 balls to this ingredients provided below.

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoon baking powder

2 tablespoon cooking oil

1 piece egg

1/3-1/2 cup evaporated milk, must be diluted

½ cup linga or widely known as sesame seeds

¾ cup centrifugal sugar

How to cook

You will mix all dry ingredients except sesame seeds in a mixing bowl. Make a well at the center of the bowl. Then add oil, milk, and eggs. You must blend all ingredients well. Now, after blending; you now form into a one inch ball.

Then coat each with linga and fry in deep fat until turns to brown in color. After frying all, you can get it and place it to big bowl or plate and serve to your friends or family before eating breakfast meal.

See, it is easy to cook binangkal. If you are having a business with bakery, you can include this food recipe. The taste is ideal to let people eat again and again plus it is heavy to stomach. Start your business now with binangkal recipe.

Everybody’s Favorite Fish Balls with Sweet Sour Sauce Recipe

2011-08-28T02:38:00.000-07:00

Fish balls are widely known in the Philippines. This is one of the street foods that no one could escape to buy because of the perfect and super delicious taste. Fish ball recipe is an easy way recipe to prepare.

Mostly, in the Philippines either you will travel Luzon, Visayas or Mindanao; fish balls can be seen at the street. This is widely eaten by any people such as adult, children as well as teenager.

If somebody will offer to eat like this recipe, no one will say no. Th perfect blend of this recipe make people habitually eat again and again.

Since this recipe is very common to Philippines, here is the recipe how to cook fish balls with sweet and sour sauce. Even if you are in some parts of the world, you can try this recipe as long as the ingredients are complete. The ingredients and steps how to cook goes this way.

Ingredients for Balls:

2 cups flake fish, cooked or left- over

1 onion, must be chopped

1 teaspoon white pepper

2 eggs

1 cup breadcrumbs, for breading

Ingredients for Sauce:

1” ginger, slice into stripe

1 cup green papaya slices

1 red pepper, sliced

Green onion leaves, cut 1 inch long

1/3 cup vinegar

1 cup water

¼ teaspoon baking soda]

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon cornstarch dispersed in tablespoon of water and 2 tablespoon oil

1/3 cup sugar

Cooking Procedure:

You can now mix all ingredients for fish balls except breadcrumbs. Form into balls and roll in breadcrumbs. Then, deep fry, set aside. Next step is you will sauté ginger, onion and the rest of the vegetables. Then combine the rest of the ingredients and let it boil, add starch mixture and cook until thick. Pour over the fried fish balls and serve while hot.

If you are planning to put up a little business, my advice is start with this kind of business. The ingredients are affordable to purchase but it will earn you a lot. You can try this recipe now and sell this fish balls to the places wherein there are crowds of people. For sure, you will earn a lot but costs you less. Good luck to your business.

Scrumptious Oven-Fried Fish Fillets Recipe

2011-08-28T01:32:00.001-07:00

Who likes to eat fish frequently? Eating fish with different recipes becomes a perfect preparation that most family likes to stay in the dining table. Fish has many recipes to do as well as reaching the perfect taste. It can be fried fish, Escabeche, paksiw, stew and many more.

Fish fillet is one of the delicious recipes can be made in a fish. It cab be prepared to most special occasion like all types of parties, weddings or to any instances. Perhaps, fish fillets are now famous in fast food restaurant like Chowking, Jollibee or even Mc Do. This type of recipe is better than to eat pork everyday. Why? Fish has no side effects to health if it is eaten repeatedly instead it provides health benefits to you. It has omega-3 and other vitamins and minerals which are essential to the body’s metabolism.

Here is one of the recipes to cook; I will offer to you the oven-fried fish fillets recipe. This recipe has few ingredients; therefore you can do this to your own to make your family bonding more closely.

Ingredients:

4 skinless boneless fish fillets about 100-150grams

¼ cup evaporated milk

1 teaspoon salt

Few drops hot pepper sauce

½ cup dry breadcrumbs

25-50grams butter

Procedure in Cooking:

The first thing you must do is to check out if the fillets have no bones anymore. Next thing you must do is to mix the milk, salt and pepper sauce in a small bowl. You have to measure the crumbs on to a shallow plate or a paper towel. Consequently, coat the fillets first with seasoned milk, then with crumbs. Then, you can have the oven pre-heated to its highest heat about 203^oC or 450^oF.

Followed by getting a shallow baking dish which is if at all possible metal with a non stick finish that will hold the fillets in one layer, without too much space between them, and melt the butter in it until it is bubbling however be sure has not burned. Next, turn each fillet in the hot pan so that the side coated first is uppermost. Arrange fillets so they are not touching.

Then bake at 230^oC or 450^oF for at least 10-15 minutes until the flesh in the center of each fillet will become flake, and until coating has browned in parts. You should take care not to overcook otherwise the fish will be dry, for this reason it’s not tasty to eat.

How To Make Appetizing Roasted Eggplant

2011-08-25T12:22:00.000-07:00

Eggplant or “talong” in Filipino language is plant that has a dark-violet in color. This plant will normally grow in tropical countries like Philippines. Eggplant is one of the vegetables mentioned in the Filipino song “Bahay Kubo” and one of the Filipino’s favorite foods.

Physically described, talong or eggplant is a long, slim with dark-violet color. One of the most distinguished recipe of talong as an ingredient is the vegetable stew pinakbet.

Eggplant can be cooked as roasted, one of the ingredients in cooking mixed vegetables as well as omelet eggplant. If you are talking about roasted eggplant, this is one of the recipes that can be cooked and prepared easily. I frequently cooked this recipe when time keeps on hurrying me. If you will try this recipe, it’s so delicious and 3 cups of rice would not be enough.

Online researching is extensive, therefore; you can find eggplant recipes online. Since I have posted a recipe about roasted mixed vegetables, I will share to you how to cooked roasted eggplant. It’s so easy and quick.

Ingredients:

2 segments garlic, hammered or slice

1 small onion bulb, sliced

1 piece bell pepper, sliced thin horizontal

Onion string, slice vertically

Cooking oil 6 pieces eggplant, sliced diagonally

Soy sauce, any brand

Seasoning/magic sarap/umami seasoning

Water

Procedure in Cooking:

In a cooking pan, you must sauté garlic until brown and then add onion until transparent. Next, you can now put eggplant and then mix. After mixing, put seasoning (must be spread out) and pour soy sauce, mix and cover. After 1 minute or two, add 2 to 3 cups of water to simmer and let it soften. Mix again. When the eggplant becomes soft, you can finalize the taste of your cooked roasted eggplant. You can add the remaining spices. You can put soy sauce if necessary or seasoning and salt to taste. If the taste goes find with you, you can get the finished food in the cooking pan and serve hot with plain rice plus extra rice.

Filipino-Style Roasted Vegetables with Pork

2011-08-20T22:45:00.000-07:00

Discussing on the subject of vegetables, it is rich of vitamins and minerals needed to the body to metabolize. If we eat a lot of food like vegetables which is rich in vitamins, there will be great and nice results such as fairly skin, clear vision, and other ailments that need a treatment of eating frequently a vegetable like eating fresh bitter gourd/bitter melon which good for diabetes.

Vegetables can be eaten fresh or cooked. People like me often cooked roasted vegetables for the reason that as what I have known countless vitamins would be extracting from vegetables when eaten. Therefore, most of the time I do often cook roasted vegetables because it can help solve many diseasas.<2fspan>

Vegetables can be cooked and mix to some recipes like carrots, potato, cabbage and etc. If you will season it perfectly, you will come up with delicious taste. There many mom’s or chef that knows how to cook with vegetables. They will combine it with different ingredients and arrive to yummy tastes.

Would you okay for you if I will share the recipe that I used to cook often? Well, if you are a Filipino; I know you can relate to this recipe. But if you are an outlander in Philippines; I know this is new to you but if you want just give a try, maybe you like the taste of this Filipino-Style Roasted Vegetables with Pork.

Ingredients:

Salt to taste

Seasoning

Cooking oil

5 tablespoon or more Silver swan soy sauce or any brand

3 segments of Garlic must be sliced or hammered
1 red bell peppered, sliced
1 piece tomato
1 onion string, cut vertically

1 piece small onion bulb, sliced

2 teaspoon vinegar

¼ kilo pork, cut into cubes

5 pieces Okra, cut into slant

1 regular slice Squash

1piece Bitter melon/ampalaya (regular size)

2 pieces eggplant

Water

Procedure:

In a carajay or a frying pan, put a small amount of cooking oil and sauté garlic until it turns to brown color, next is place onion until transparent. Consequently, put pork and then mix. Put seasoning so that the taste will absorb to the pork. Pour little vinegar and soy sauce and then mix again. Wait for 5 minutes to let soy sauce absorb and vinegar to the pork and add water and cover. Wait for 20 to 30 minutes until pork becomes soft or tender. Since the pork is soft already, you can put all the vegetables and mix again and cover. Wait until all the vegetables will become soft. After that, add the remaining spices like bell pepper, onion string and tomato you can finally add Salt to taste or little soy sauce if needed and put also seasoning so that the vegetables will have some taste too. After all, you can get it and serve it hot or cooled with rice.

Yummy Crispy Fried Chicken

2011-08-18T14:38:00.000-07:00

Who loves chicken joy? Well, this is mainly a child’s favorite. Nevertheless, though; I am not child, I really like fried chicken. I distinguish that you like fried chicken as well. Generally, chicken joy is everybody’s favorite. Why most people really like chicken joy?

The reason is there’s a “magic” every time you bite it. Discussing about the topic “chicken”, it is largely located in Philippines. Usually, a chicken or hens can easily produce 5 eggs a week or 260 eggs a year. Therefore, chicken is widespread in tropical country like Philippines. That’s why many businesses in the Philippines use chicken to lift up their food business. For this reason, nonstop supply of chicken will maintain food business into the level of higher rank or in other words, keep on progress in terms of income.

Besides, chicken can use in any type of recipe, you can used it in sweet chicken wings, chicken ginger stew and other recipes. Well, online information of diverse recipe are now available. If you are enthusiastic in cooking different kinds of food, you can take a wide research via online. There, you can find anything what recipe you want. Cooking different kinds of food everyday makes a family happy as well as makes their stomach always full. Discovering any kind of recipes plus apply it to your own family is a challenge. Cooking is an enjoyable leisure pursuit since aside from learning how to cook; your family will stay forever strong and more time bonding within your home.

So, to make your family had a great time bonding with each other, I had found a simple but delicious recipe to make your family eat together and enjoy. The recipe is yummy crispy fried chicken. From the title recipe itself, it’s so tasty and can start my saliva dropped.

Here is the recipe; you don’t need to get a lot of ingredients like other recipes. Yummy Crispy fried chicken has few ingredients and has simple steps of cooking.

Ingredients:

1kilo chicken thigh (or pork—must be cut into regular size cubes)

1 65 grams (2.298 oz) Crispy Fry Breading Mix (has many flavor, you can select garlic or original)

Cooking oil (be sure that you will let the coated chicken thigh or cubed pork dipped in the cooking oil)

Note: Crispy fry breading mix has complete seasoning, so you don’t have to coat with salt the chicken thigh or pork.

Procedure:

First, you need to wash the 1 kilo chicken or pork and let it drain for at least 30 minutes for complete draining so that when you coat it to crispy fry breading mix, it’s not wet. Consequently, get the chicken or pork and coat it with crispy fry breading mix in a large frying pan. For guarantee result, you can put it all to a big bowl or plastic and shake. Then, you can place them all to a big frying pan with a lot of oil for deep fry until golden brown. After deep frying, you can get it all and place it to a clean big bowl or big plate and let it cool. Serve it to your family. Enjoy eating.

Appetizing Escabeche or Sweet-and-Sour Fish Recipe

2011-08-15T08:32:00.000-07:00

Escabeche is a Spanish word which simply means in English; a distinctive Mediterranean food which specifies together a dish of simmered or fried fish (it could be Escabeche of chicken, fish otherwise pork which is commonly a dish in Spain/Spanish) that is soaked or marinated in a seasoned mixture, often acidic blend ahead of serving, as well as to the immerse itself.

Escabeche is widespread in Philippines though originally in Spain, Salvadoran, Panamanian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican and Guatemalan cuisine, and popular in Catalonia, Portugal and Provence. However, if you want to try, you can cooked escabeche by following the procedure which I will teach you later.

When you say Escabeche, usually it is being cooked with fish as main ingredient in Philippines as well as to other country. Fish has a significant nutrient that is required towards the body. Different types of fish has also diverse amount of vitamins.

We are already informed that fish is a good starting place of omega-3 fatty acids plus additional nutrients which is perfectly good to the heart. The vitamins that can be found in fish are namely: riboflavin, B2 and vitamins A, C, D, omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, phosphorous, iron, potassium, zinc and magnesium. Now, you know what are the essential vitamins that can fish provides you. If you don’t know the respective definitions of all the vitamins given, you can take a half hour doing a research via internet. All of the vitamins mention is necessary to the body needs in metabolism.

Here is one of the recipes in which fish can be prepared for cooking in the kitchen, the widely known as Escabeche.

In this recipe you can make 4 Servings

Ingredients

2 lbs. red snapper, sea bass, bluefish or carp) salt to taste

1 cup white vinegar 1 cup water

1/2 cup sugar 4 tablespoons vegetable or corn oil

2 cups diced bean curd 6 tablespoons minced garlic

1 cup chopped onion 4 tablespoons ginger, sliced julienne-style

2 cups sliced mushrooms 1 cup bell pepper cut in strips

1 tablespoon sifted flour

Procedure:

You have to clean first the fish, cut and open. Next, you may season it with salt within and out. Then, mix vinegar, water, sugar and salt for sweet-sour taste. You can set aside and do the next procedure.

In a medium carajay or skillet/small frying pan, you will heat oil along with frying the fish plus bean curd. Consequently, take away equally from pan as well as set aside.

The next direction is, in the similar skillet, you will sauté garlic awaiting light brown, after that put onion until see-through. Include ginger. Put in the vinegar combination. As soon as the mixture or blend come into boils, you may add fried fish, bean curd pieces, mushrooms as well as pepper, plus flour to condense or thicken. Lastly, cover the skillet or small frying pan along with boil intended for 5 minutes. You can serve it hot with plain rice.

Procedure in Making Filipino Style Spaghetti Recipe

2011-08-12T19:24:00.000-07:00

Different country all over the world has there own way of preparing or making spaghetti.
Every people in a country differ in terms of taste and cooking procedure. People will prefer to eat spaghetti based on their innate recipe procedure. Some of you don’t like others spaghetti cooking procedure and other might like. There are also people who will easily like the taste even in a single taste. Generally, no matter from what country does your cooking procedure style, when you say spaghetti; it’s common and favorite to all. Is this food are one of your favorite too? Yes, same as me this is one of my favorite food ever because I really love the taste, though you can find spaghetti recipe with sour taste. Spaghetti can be eaten after a meal or can be a suited for snacks. It is like rice when you eat spaghetti; it is weighty to the stomach. Meaning to say, if you will eat spaghetti alone with drinks can make your stomach full; had you tried it? Spaghetti is a common food that Filipino likes and loves it. In fact, from children to adult loves to eat spaghetti frequently because when spaghetti is cooked, it has the perfect taste that every one’s never say no.

Since we loved spaghetti though you had cooked this recipe to any special occasion many times, I will still provide you the procedure and ingredients how to cooked it.

Ingredients

Pinoy Spaghetti 1 kg. Spaghetti noodles (Pinoy/Filipino Spaghetti noodles)

1/2 kg. Ground beef

1/2 kg. Ground pork

1/4 kg. Hotdogs, diagonally sliced

1 kg. Tomato sauce

3 pieces laurel leaves (bay leaves)

1/4 cup brown or white sugar

2 green bell peppers, diced

2 onions, chopped

1 head garlic, minced

3 tablespoons of cooking oil

1 cup of water

Salt and pepper to taste

1/2 cup grated cheese

Cooking Instructions:

First you must cook spaghetti noodles according to procedure as you can see in the package instructions. Drain the spaghetti noodles and then set aside.

Next, in a sauce pan; put a small amount of cooking oil and start by sautéing garlic and wait a while until the color of the garlic is brown and add onions. Then, add ground beef, ground pork, laurel leaves, bell pepper as well as a cup of water. Let it boil for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes of boiling, start adding tomato sauce, salt along with pepper to flavor then let it simmer for an additional of 10 minutes again. Put in brown sugar and hotdogs and continue to simmer or boil for an extra 5 minutes. Get the drained spaghetti noodles and mix it with the finished sauce. Finally, you can now serve with the cooked spaghetti noodles and grated cheese on top.

How to Cook Chicken Ginger Stew or Tinolang Manok

2011-08-12T02:43:00.000-07:00

“Tinolang Manok” or in English term Chicken Ginger Stew is one of the common viands and favorite to all Filipinos.
When you say tinolang manok, it is filled with water which is suited to all men working under the heat of the sun who wants to sip a tasty soup. This kind of Filipino favorite food is frequently cooked in times of hard work, however; there are also people who like to eat this viand in normal meals. It is because it can satisfy your cravings in terms of hungriness. Tinolang Manok can be cooked in simple way of cooking without placing any other ingredients like vegetables. Nevertheless, it is tastier if you will cook it with complete ingredients with spicy flavor. Again, internet will provide you different kind of ingredients regarding tinolang manok or chicken ginger stew. Here is one recipe that I used to cooked, in my recipe it is with complete ingredient for tasty result.

Ingredients:

1 kilo whole chicken (it can be Pinoy chicken or any available chicken), cut into pieces.

1 small young papaya or sayote, cut into small pieces.

2 tablespoons ginger, crushed and sliced into strips

1/2 cup leaves of chili (chili leaves)

1 liter of water

5 garlic cloves, minced

5 pieces of tomatoes, sliced

1 red onion, diced

4 tablespoons oil

2 tablespoons patis (fish sauce)

Cooking Procedure:

You can use stock pot. Then you must heat oil and sauté garlic. Wait a few minutes until brown next put onion, tomatoes, chicken and ginger. As soon as the tomatoes are already cooked, add 1 liter water. Let it simmer or bring into boil for 20 minutes otherwise the chicken is almost done. Next, you can season it with patis or fish sauce or you can use salt. After adding seasoning, you must add the papaya or melon tree and let it prolong to boil for additional 5 minutes otherwise just wait until papaya or melon tree softens but be sure not too overcooked to have the perfect taste. Lastly, you must add the chili leaves then switching off the heat. It’s best to serve tinolang manok while it is steaming hot with plain rice.

Yummy Beef Calderita

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Similar to pork, beef is also rich in protein, vitamin B1 and B2, iron, copper and phosphorous. Beef and pork are commonly used when it comes to kitchen recipe cooking.
In actual fact, the recipe to any special occasion will be completed if these two ingredients are present.
Eating beef and pork twice or thrice a month is not bad to health. Therefore, preparing a recipe like this is recommended since beef has low level of fats.

Yummy beef Calderita recipe can be found online, cook book, and other monthly recipe journal. As a consequence, most people in Philippines and to the world are now familiar to this kind of recipe. Well, as a mother like you; finding different recipe online is what you are seeking to make the family stays full and happy.

Online based, you can found different recipes using beef. Internet will provide you all the types of recipes as well as the complete procedure along with the ingredients. Internet will help your work easier by providing recipes you liked.

Here is one of the recipe in which beef is used to complete the entire taste. The recipe that I have found is Beef Calderita. Did you try to cooked this recipe” How is the taste? I am pretty sure, it’s super yummy. Now, I will finally reveal the ingredients and procedure in cooking yummy beef Calderita.

Ingredients:

5 Kilos tapa or spare ribs

1 big cans tomato sauce

2 pieces chorizo bilbao, sliced thinly

1 bottle small mixed pickles

1 can frankfurters, sliced thinly

2 heads garlic, pounded

5 pieces red and green pepper, sliced thinly

Onions

Few sili pacite (anghang/spicy)

Black pepper, pounded

Vetsin

1 small can pineapple tidbits

2 cans liver sauce

½ kilo carrots (quartered)

½ kilo potatoes (quartered)

Breadcrumbs

Procedure:

You must cut beef into 1 ½ cube. Then set aside. Next, you must arrange the rest of ingredients by sautéing garlic and onions. Add tomato sauce, catsup, beef cubes as well as the rest of the ingredients except red and green bell pepper and frankfurters. Cook in slow fire until becomes tender. Add bell pepper and frankfurters last. Let it boil for two minutes. Thicken with breadcrumbs. You can serve it hot.

Note: Beef maybe pressure cooked before sautéing.

You can try it at home as an ordinary dish or you can make it in special occasion. This recipe is fitted to any occurrence.

Tasty Baked Pork Chops

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Pork chops are widely known and use to every region all- around the world depending on preferred recipe procedure being followed.
Pork chops consist of nutritive value of meat like rich in protein, phosphorus, iron, copper as well as vitamins B1 and B2. When it comes to special occasion such as wedding, birthdays along with fiestas; pork chops is never be absent to any Filipino dishes otherwise even to the world. Pork chops are generally used as the main ingredient in cooking a recipe except countries doesn’t like pork’s.

If you will take a further research either online or offline, there are many recipe’s wherein pork chops are primarily utilized. One of the recipes that I have found online is what I called “Tasty Baked Pork chops”. Do you know how to cook this? If you are a chef, sure you can! Or a mother of two or three, I know you had already tried this recipe. However, I will still provide you the ingredients and procedure how to cook this.

Let me share to you the recipe in cooking Tasty Baked Pork Chops. Here are the ingredients for you to prepare as well as the detailed procedure.

Ingredients:

1 Kilo Pork Chops

1 teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon vetsin or magic sarap/seasoning

3 tablespoon soy sauce

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 Kilo smoked bacon

1 big onion, sliced

1 green pepper, must be cut into cubes

3 sticks of celery, must be cut into cubes

Procedure:

You must arrange first the pork chops in a baking dish; blend pepper, vetsin or magic sarap as well as soy sauce in a cup plus shower over pork chops. Then discharge ¾ of the mushroom soup and you must also reserve ¼ to make gravy. Consequently, mix onions, celery and pepper together and place on top of pork chops. Then, you baked it in a preheated oven at 350^oF for 1 hour otherwise until almost done. Arrange the bacon on top and return to oven and bake until bacon is crispy. You need to deplete the drippings commencing meat and combine with the remaining ¼ of mushroom soup. Then heat until simmering, and lastly put in gravy boat and serve with the chops.

How to Make Bukayo

2011-08-09T22:10:00.000-07:00

Bukayo is a common Filipino food. Have you tried this recipe? Touching the topic about Bukayo, is mainly consist of grated coconut.
Well, this is our favorite food when we are in the primary level or elementary, am I right? I admit that this is one of the Filipino foods that I usually bought in the store near our school. The taste of Bukayo is everybody’s favorite because of sweet taste that makes people like me, eat this food again.

Coconut has many uses. It can be utilized also in cooking biko, taffy, molido, special torta and other Asian food recipes in which the coconut milk is primarily used. Coconut milk is very important in all types of Filipino food as well as other Asian countries. Absence of coconut milk, the food dishes wouldn’t be perfect. Nonetheless, there are many recipes that can be found online that chiefly uses coconut milk. You can take another research online to discover more.

Actually, bukayo is an extremely a sugary dessert otherwise toppings which is mainly finished of grated coconut. It is prepared by means of boiling strips of immature, jellylike coconut (buko) in water as well as an addition by means of white or brown sugar. Here is the procedure and ingredients needed how to cook bukayo.

Ingredients

6 cups grated coconut (it should be chopped finely)

3 cups sugar or brown sugar

12 tablespoons glucose

Procedure:

First, you should mix coconut, glucose as well as sugar (white or brown sugar). Next, cook it in a copper vat or carajay, you must mix or blend it constantly in order to keep away from burning in awaiting it reaches a 95^oC of temperature otherwise as soon as it no longer sticks towards the finger when you touched. Consequently, place on a greased board. Then you can now roll into a sheet of 12 cm. long as well as 4 cm. thick. You must set aside allowing it to be cool. Cut into a very sharp knife crosswise to produce bars about 12 cm. long 4 cm. wide and 1 ½ cm. thick. Then finally, wrap each bar in a piece of wax paper and keep in well-covered boxes. It can also be made into 1” balls.

You may try this dessert recipe at home and share it together with your family. You can serve this after meal since this is a dessert.