Are looking for a healthy Filipino recipe? Here’s one easy to do, simple, easy on the budget but loaded with healthy stuff and goodness!

Stuffed Tomatoes (Rellenong Kamatis)

Ingredients:

about 5 to 7 big ripe tomatoes

1 red onion , minced

one fourth kilo of ground beef

half a cup of cooked rice

one egg yolk

salt, pepper

grated cheddar cheese for garnishing

Procedure:

Cut the upper part of your tomato, delicately empty them using a spoon set them aside for filling.  In a bowl mixed the rice, ground beef, onion, egg yolk, and the rest of the tomato you collected.  Mix them well, add salt and pepper.  Scoop them and fill your emptied tomatoes, topped them with cheese and bake in the oven at 180° celsius for about 25 minutes.  This is a complete dish!

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Food sometimes intertwined with memories. Food awakens our senses, comforts it, heals and nourishes it. My childhood memories are filled with laughter and what else good food! As I enjoy my breakfast yesterday I couldn’t help but remember all those fried rice I ate growing up as a kid. My dad boasts of his greatest fried rice recipe. And I assure you it’s true. Love this simple garlic fried rice recipe!

Fried Rice Recipe (Sinangag sa Bawang)

about 2 cups of left-over rice

* It is always better to use the left over rice. Not only they are economic but it is easier to cook them than freshly cooked rice. If you are using freshly cooked rice let it stand for a while until its not hot anymore or else it will stick to your pan

some gloves of garlic pounded (you can use more or less depending on your taste)

some cooking oil

salt, pepper, a bit of soy sauce

you can add some chopped ham, grean peas or any vegetables sitting on your fridge (but they are optional)

Procedure:

You will start by mashing the rice grain by grain using a fork or your hand (its your choice). My dad normally wets up his hand to facilitate this task. Warm up your pan then put your rice that’s been separated grain by grain. The idea is that it is no longer a big mass of cooked rice. Over medium heat continue stirring the rice so it won’t stick or be burnt. When the rice is hot enough, make a small hole in the middle put your pounded garlic and your cooking oil. Brown a little bit the garlic and fold the rice. Add some salt, pepper, soy sauce to taste. Presto it’s done. You can add up also some chopped omellete, ham and some vegetables.

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Buro or balao balao is a Filipino native delicacy made from fermented rice and shrimps, ingenous from the province of Pampanga. It is eaten as an accompaniment but taste even better when served some eggplant, lettuce, mustard, and other vegetables.

Ingredients:

250g or 1/4 kilo shrimp with heads removed
43.5g of salt

1.2kg or 6 cups of cooked rice

Procedure

Start by preparing the rice (C4 variety). The rice must be slightly wet when cooked.
Use 4 cups of water to make the rice slightly watery. Set aside cooked rice to cool.
Mix salt and shrimp in mixing bowl. Mash thoroughly until the shrimp absorbs the salt. Let stand for 2 hours. After 2 hours, put cooked rice in a mixing bowl. Add salt/shrimp mixture then mash to mix ingredients thoroughly. Add the remaining salt to the mixture and mix. Set aside.
Transfer the mixture into sterilized bottles. Leave a centimeter head space from the mouth.
Cover bottles with polyethylene plastic. Cap tightly. Set aside for 10 days to ferment.
On the 10th day, the balao-balao is ready to be served. To cook, saute with garlic and onion.

The balao-balao will last for 2 months when kept in a freezer.

source: Tecnology Resource Center

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Although this dish is inspired by a famous thai rice dish our local shrimp paste will bring out the best and the real filipino taste in this food.

Ingredients:
2 bowls of cooked rice,

1 onion chopped,

2 cloves of garlic,

1 tbsp of shrimp paste,

2 tbsp of olive oil,

2 tbsp of fish sauce

Procedure:

In wok brown the garlic and the onion. Add the shrimp paste and mix well. Put the cook rice and continue to mix. Season with fish sauce. You can also add some chopped hot chili pepper (siling labuyo if you want a hotter version). Serve this with sliced green mango on the side and some sliced tocino.

Published with permission: Dhanggit’s Kitchen

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Problems of left over rice. No more worry, here is a simple fried rice that you will surely love.

Ingredients:

3 cups of cooked rice (left-over)

2 cloves of garlic

1 onion sliced

half a cup of green peas

2 eggs beaten for omelette

1 carrot cut in small cubes

about half a cup of ham cut in cubes

salt and pepper

Procedure:

In a pan or a wok, heat the oil.  Place the garlic, onion and ham.  Stir them until they change color.  Add the green peas, the carrots and continue stirring for about five minutes.  Add the rice and continue mixing well.  Add salt and pepper.  Pour the beaten eggs and mix.  You can serve it with chopped parsley on the top.

* You can also make a Vegetarian Fried rice (using only vegetables)

* You can also make some Sausage Fried rice (using different kinds of sausages)

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