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Vegetarian Carbonara

Hilda — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:52:07 +0000

Next to rice filipinos love eating pasta. Here’s a healthy option to prepare your favorite carbonara spaghetti.

Vegetarian Carbonara

(serves 2 to 3 persons)

Ingredients:

about 250 g of spaghetti pasta or any pasta of your choice

2 yolks of large eggs

2 tablespoons of olive oil

about 250 g of fresh button musrooms sliced

4 tablespoons of double cream

salt, and freshly milled pepper

some freshly chopped basil

Procedure:*

Start by cooking your pasta. Meanwhile heat your pan and add your olive oil, fry your mushrooms, put some salt and pepper. In a bowl whish your egg yolks and add the cream. Mix them together. Once the pasta is cooked, drain it and toss it in the same pan with the mushrooms. Add the cream mixture, freshly milled pepper, a little bit of salt and basil.

Pancit Palabok (Pancit ng Malabon)

Hilda — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:38:25 +0000

“Ang dami mo namang palabok” in other words you have so much blah, blah. Try this favorite dish of my dad that he wouldn’t mind eating them every single morning for his breakfast

Pancit Palabok or Pancit Malabon
450 gms fat bihon (rice noodles)
some water
1 T achiote seeds (or red food coloring)
¼ C cooking oil
½ C ground chicharron
¼ C fish sauce (patis)
½ tsp ground black pepper
2½ T calamansi juice
2 T cornstarch mixed with 1 T water
2 C shredded pechay baguio or any cabbage will do, blanched
1 pound medium shrimps, peeled and fried (reserve heads and peels for broth)
1 C crumbled chicharron
2 C chopped boiled pork
1 pound cooked squid , sliced
3 hard cooked eggs, sliced
2 T crumbled fried garlic slices
2 T sliced green onions
calamansi juice and fish extract

Cook the noodles in water. When softened, cook in a pot of boiling water until tender but still firm. Drain and set aside. In a small skillet heat the cooking oil and achiote seeds in low heat for 1 minute. Strain and discard seeds. Set oil aside. In a large pan, boil 4 cups water and reserved shrimp heads and shells and a dash of salt. Lower heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove shells and discard. Add cornstarch mixture and simmer for a few minutes until sauce has thickened. Add the ground chicharron, the achiote oil, black pepper, fish sauce (patis) , and calamansi juice. Mix well.

Add the cooked noodles and toss until noodles are well coated. Transfer into a large serving platter. Top with shredded cabbage, shrimps, pork adobo, chopped chicharron, squid, garlic, spring onions, and sliced eggs. Serve it with a slice of calamansi.

Pinoy Spaghetti Meatballs

Hilda — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:48:47 +0000

Some love it spicy. The italians love it soury but Filipinos love it with a hint of sweetness!

Ingredients:

For the meatballs:

half a kilo of ground beef

half a kilo of ground pork

2 carrots chopped finely

1 onion chopped finely

1 egg

2 tablespoons of flour

salt and pepper

1 1/2 kilo of spaghetti noodles

2 liters of water

some salt and cooking oil

for the Spaghettti sauce:

1 bottle of tomato catsup

2 cans of tomato sauce

1 tablespoon of tomato paste

3 cloves of garlic chopped

2 onions chopped

some cooking oil

2 bay leaves

1 tablespoon of sugar

salt and pepper

cooking oil

some grated cheese

Procedure:

Start by preparing your meatballs. In a salad bowl put your ground pork and ground beef. Add the chopped onion and carrots. Mix well. Put some salt and pepper. Break the egg inside and fold in the flour. Continue mixing well. With your palm shape ball form like to make your meatballs. Put them in a plate with enough spacing. It is up to you if you prefer to make big balls or medium sized balls. Put them in the fridge to let them hold together. After about an hour, in a frying pan put some oil and fry your meatballs. Do not overcook them for you will cook them again with the tomato sauce. Just give them a ligh golden brown color on all sides. On the same pan add a little bit of oil and start sautéing your garlic and onions. Put your tomato paste and bay leaves. Pour the catsup, tomato sauce and water. Mix them well. Cover and let it simmer slowly for about twenty minutes. Add your meatballs and put some salt, pepper and sugar. Cover and let it simmer for another five minutes. In a big casserole put two liters of water with rock salt on it and 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. As soon as it boils add the spaghetti noodles. Cook them as per instruction. A spaghetti noodles would normally require about ten to eleven minutes of cooking for aldente and more for a much softer noodle texture. Strain them. Pour your sauce on the top and some grated cheese on it.

Bam-i

Hilda — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:54:06 +0000

Bam-i is a stir-fry of two noodles, a specialty of the Visayan island of Cebu in the Philippines. My vacation there when I was a teenager made me fall in love with their beautiful beaches and this delicious noodle recipe.

Ingredients:

half a kilo of vermicelli noodles

half a kilo of thick noodle (canton or udon type)

3 cloves of garlic

a quarter of kilo of shrimps, shelled and deveined

1 cooked chicken breast chopped

1 onion sliced

1 chinese sausage sliced

2 carrots cut in julienne strips

one cup of shreaded cabbage

some patis

1 chicken cube dissolved 1 liter of water

Procedure:

Start by frying your shrimps on a heated pan with oil. Add your garlic, onion and chinese sausage and sauté them. Add the carrots, chicken and your chopped cabbage. Pour your chicken broth and let it simmer. As it boils add your noodles and cover it. Once the noodles have wilted start mixing them. You can add more water if its necessary. Put some salt and pepper to taste. You can serve this with some hard boiled eggs decorated on the top.

Beef Meatballs Lomi Soup

Hilda — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:47:19 +0000

Filipinos adore soupy dishes specially during rainy season. For breakfast or even lunches noodle soup still remains a favorite. Eaten with hot rice or pandesal, nothing beats its goodness!

Ingredients:

half a kilo of fresh lomi noodles (or any noodle pasta dry or fresh)

1 liter of water

some rock salt

1 shallots sliced

2 cloves garlic

1 cube of beef bouillon (dissolved in one liter of water)

one cup of shredded cabbage, pechay baguio or any kinds of vegetables

half a kilo of ground meat

1 egg

2 tablespoons of flour

salt, pepper

1 onion chopped

Procedure:

Start by making your meatballs. In a bowl, put your ground meat. Add the chopped onion , egg and flour. Mix well. Add salt and pepper. Make some balls using the palm of your hands. Put it in the fridge for about thirty minutes. You should cover it to avoid getting the odor of the fridge. In a deep casserole, pour one liter of water, add some rock salt and let it boil. As soon as it boils, add the lomi noodles. Cook them as if you are cooking spaghetti pasta noodles. Strain them as soon their are cook. In another casserole let the beef bouillon reach its boiling point, then add your meat balls. Be sure to put them delicately. As soon as they changed color its already cook. Put your lomi in your serving bowl. Garnish it with sliced onion and chopped vegetables. Put the meat balls and pour in your boiling beef soup. The hotness of the liquid will cook your onion and vegetables. You can also top it with fried garlic.

Pancit Canton

Hilda — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:25:00 +0000

No birthdays or filipino family gathering is complete without a pancit on the table. A sign of longevity and strong family ties. Definitely we owe this to strong chinese influence but our version is truly filipino in its sense. Pancit could be long or short, with sauce or not but always a sure hit among the guests. I love it in between my pandesal in the morning or eaten with rice during lunchtime.

Ingredients:

1 kilo of pancit canton

*1 kilo could serve about ten to twelve guests. But it depends on their capacity to eat and if there are other dishes on the table.

half a kilo of pork belly (slice thinly)

2 cooked chicken breasts (meat shreaded)

1/4 kilo of shrimps (shells removed )

1/4 kilo of squid balls (cut into two)

2 onions sliced

3 cloves of garlic

one cup of sliced cabbage

2 carrots (cut in julienne strips)

half a cup of caulliflower (cut in small pieces) you can also use some broccolli

half a cup of celery stalks sliced

one bunch of fresh kintsay (chinese parley)

1/4 cup of soy sauce

pepper

1 pork cube (dissolve in half a liter of water)

half a cup of water

Procedure:

There are many versions of cooking canton. This one is the version of my friend’s mom she taught us, and I swear its really good. In a big wok or sautéing pan, put the pork and half a cup of water. Cover it and let it boil. After few minutes of simmering you can take now the liquid from the wok. You will save it for future use later. Add oil on the wok and start frying the pork, once they change color, take them off and put the shrimps. Cook them lightly until they change color. Next put the squid balls and do the same. After all these fry all the vegetables lighlty. You can add more oil if necessary. The vegetables need to rest crunchy and sweet. Reserve in one big plate all the fried vegetables, pork, shrimp, squid balls and cooked chicken breast. On the same wok, sauté the garlic and onion and pour the pork broth cube dissolved in water. Let it boil. Add the pancit canton. Pour the soy sauce. Do not put everything immediately, try to taste it, to determine whether you will need to put more or less. Let the canton noodles soften and absorbed the juice. If you like your pancit canton with a little bit of liquid you can already turn off the fire as soon as the noodles tenderized. But if you prefer a pancit canton drier you need to wait that the juice have already evaporated. But do not overcook because noodles have tendency to become soggy. At this point mix half of all the fried ingredients you have on the pancit. Mix them well to be sure they are proportionally distributed everywhere. The other remaining half of your fried veggies and meat goes on top of the noodles so that it will look more appetizing. Serve with kalamansi (lemon or lime) mixed with soy sauce and siling labuyo (chili hot pepper).