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Calamares

Hilda — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:43:45 +0000

This is truly a perfect pulutan , fried squid!! And if you are hungry for more try them with white rice even better!

Ingredients:

half a kilo of Squid (medium or big size)

half a liter cooking oil

one cup of beer

half a teaspoon of paprika

salt and pepper

3/4 of flour

Procedure:

Clean and slice your squids. In a bowl mix the beer, flour, paprika, salt and pepper. Mix them well. In a deep frying pan , warm your oil, once it’s ready dip your squid into the batter and fry them until they are golden brown. You can serve it with different kinds of sauces: mayonaisse with a little bit of mustard, vinegar and chili or soy sauce with a slice of lime.

Sardines

Hilda — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:23:10 +0000

How about making your own home-made sardines. A great way to cook your sardine fish and tomatoes. For a version more filipino you can replace the sardines with galunggong fish.

Ingredients:

1 kilo of sardine fish (you can replace this with galunggong) cleaned and washed

some cooking oil

3 tablespoons of flour

salt

1teaspoon of chili powder (optional)

one fourth cup of olive oil

20 cloves of garlic minced

1 big onion sliced

1 teaspoon of fresh ginger chopped

half a cup of tomato purée (tomatoes skins and seeds removed puréed in a blender)

1 teaspoon of tomato paste

4 tablespoons of vinegar

salt

pepper

Procedure:

Dredge the fishes with flour and fry them on a shallow pan with some cooking oil. Set them aside. In another casserole, put some olive oil (about 3 tablespoons) and start sautéing your garlic, onion and ginger. Add the tomato paste, tomato puree and vinegar. Put your fried fishes and chili powder. Let it simmer over medium fire. Pour the rest of your olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste.

Bagoong Guisado

Hilda — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:18:36 +0000

Bagoong is an important Filipino delicacy and ingredients to most of its dishes; Be careful of its pungent odor for its actually fermented. Bagoong could be alamang “tiny shrimps” or in fishes. Filipinos love to snack them with green mangoes or just even to top them on newly cooked rice.

Bagoong Guisado

Ingredients:

about half a cup of bagoong (shrimp paste)

1 teaspoon of sugar

2 tablespoons of vinegar

some chilies (labuyo) this is optional if you want spicy

some pork fat

1 red onion chopped

Procedure:

In a pan, put your pork fat add a little bit of water and cover it. Let it boil and let the oil come out from the fat. Fry the fat from its oil, add the garlic then the onion. Add the bagoong and continue frying. Add the sugar and vinegar cook until the vinegar has completely evaporated. If you want a spicy bagoong add the chopped chilies.

Sisig

Hilda — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:29:43 +0000

Sisig is actually a Kapampangan delicacy that’s popularity spread out all over Philippines. In Kapampangan the term sisig actually means to snack on something sour. Sisig is a popular “pulutan” or an accompaniment when people are drinking beers or wine. Here’s a recipe for this Kapampangan recipe my Kapampangan friend taught me,hope you like them.

Sisig

Ingredients:

pig’s head (you will be needing the cheek, nose and ears)

1 big onion peeled and halved

1 carrot peeled

some water

some cooking oil for frying

1 chopped onion

3 chopped green chilies

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of vinegar

kalamansi for decoration

some butter

salt, peppercorn

2 teaspoon of tabasco

some fresh chilis for decoration

Procedure:

There are three phase involve in cooking a sisig. The first one is boiling. Boil your pig’s cheek, ears and nose in a large casserole with water, some salt, peppercorn, onion and carrots. Cook them until they are tender. You can use a pressure cooker to speed up this task. The second phase is to grill them. Over your charcoal fire, grill your cooked pork’s part. Brown them on both sides. After this you need to chop them very thinly. The last phase needs a frying pan, put some cooking oil, sauté your onion and chopped green chilies with your cooked chopped pork. Add the soysauce, tabasco and vinegar. Before turning off the fire add your butter, decorate with sliced kalamansi and chilies.

Pork Adobo

Hilda — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:49:47 +0000

Various ways and styles fofcooking this filipino dish exist. This is but one of them. This is a bit sweet and not a dry version.

Ingredients:

half a kilo of pork (cut in serving portion) liempo or butt part is the best

1 tablespoon of sugar

5 tablespoons of vinegar

5 tablespoons of soy sauce

1 clove of garlic pounded

pepper

some cooking oil

half a glass of water

Procedure:

Prepare the marinating ingredients:sugar, soysauce, vinegar, pepper and lots of pounded garlic. Let the cut pork marinate in this juice for a minimum of two hours. Put everything in a casserole and pour the glass of water. Let this simmer gently. Do not let the sauce dries up, once the juice has reduced into half and the meat are tender you can cut the fire. Remember adobos are always best eaten the next day!

Pork Adobo Ilocano style

Hilda — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:14:30 +0000

Another filipino all time favorite. Historians claim it’s a spanish inspired dish, whatever they say this is definitely my favorite dish!

Ingredients:

1 kilo of pork (cut in cubes) you can choose a mixture of fatty and meaty parts

2 bay leaves

6 cloves of garlic pounded (you can add more if you want)

1 teasepoon of salt

half a glass of vinegar (sukang paumbong)

some cooking oil

half a glass of water

Procedure:

In a salad bowl mix your marinating ingredients: vinegar, salt, pounded garlic and crushed bay leaves. Put the pork and let it marinate for about an hour. After marinating pour everything in your casserole and add your water. Cover and let this simmer for about thirty minutes over medium fire. Once the juice starts to thicken pour about two tablespoons of cooking oil. You will fry them for about ten minutes or until it becomes golden brown in color.

Adobong Sitaw with fried tokwa

Hilda — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:19:20 +0000

This is my auntie’s specialty!

Ingredients:

2 cups of cut sitaw (long beans)

3 cloves of garlic pounded

1 big onion sliced

3 tablespoons of soy sauce

3 tablespoons of vinegar

2 tablespoons of black beans (tausi)

half a glass of water

250 g of ground pork (optional)

one block of big tofu (tokwa)

half a glass of oil for frying

Procedure:

Start first by frying the tokwa (tofu) in a deep casserole. You should put enough cooking oil to fry the tofu easily. They need to be golden brown on both sides. About putting the tofu too early. The oil should be hot enough. Cool them off and cut them in cubes. In a separate casserole put your cooking oil. Fry your garlic and onions. Add your ground pork and your black beans. Then put the sitaw and continue stirring. Add soy sauce, vinegar and water. Cook until the sitaw are tender. Top it with fried tokwa.

Adobong Sitaw

Hilda — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:47:33 +0000

One of my favorite vegetable dish that is so easy to cook!

Ingredients:

2 cups of cut sitaw (long beans)

3 cloves of garlic pounded

1 big onion sliced

3 tablespoons of soy sauce

3 tablespoons of vinegar

half a glass of water

some hibe

250 g of ground pork (optional)

Procedure:

In a casserole put your cooking oil. Fry your garlic and onions. Add your ground pork and hibe. Then put the sitaw and continue stirring. Add soy sauce, vinegar and water. Cook until the sitaw are tender.

Adobong kangkong

Hilda — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:43:32 +0000

When I was a kid I grew up close to kangkong plantation. I remember how many times I enjoy eating adobong kangkong everytime my parents didn’t have the money to buy food. Now its a food I always long to taste.

Ingredients:

2 cups of kangkong leaves and stalks (in our family we cut the stalks in ringlike forms)

3 cloves of garlic pounded

1 big onion sliced

3 tablespoons of soy sauce

3 tablespoons of vinegar

half a glass of water

some chicharon

Procedure:

In a casserole put your cookign oil. Fry your garlic and onions. Add your kangkon, soysauce and vinegar. Pour half a glass of water and let it simmer for about fifteen minutes covered. Before servign top it with chicharon.

Paksiw na Bangus

Hilda — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:38:27 +0000

The best way of choosing bangus is by their eyes. It should be shiny and brilliant; It shouldn’t have any foul odor too.

Ingredients:

1 big bangus cleaned but not scaled cut in about 4 to five slices

2 siling haba (finger chilies)

3 cloves of garlic pounded

a small piece of ginger washed, pounded

1 ampalaya sliced

1 eggplant sliced

half a cup of vinegar

1 teaspoon of salt

some water about (half a glass of small water)

Procedure:

Wash and clean your bangus. Remove the gills but do not the scales. Rub them with salt and wash with running water. In a casserole place the sliced bangus, pounded garlic and ginger, some salt and water. Cover and let it simmer for about ten minutes. Add the vegetables and vinegar and continue simmering for another five minutes. Before cutting the fire add the siling haba.

Kilawing Puso ng saging

Hilda — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:10:04 +0000

Ingredients:

1 big whole puso ng saging or banana blossom

Be careful in choosing your banana blossom. My grandmom always told me choose the one that looks young and has a lighter color than the dark one. They are less tangy and much sweeter.

3 cloves of garlic

1 onion sliced

1/4 cup vinegar

1/4 kilo prawns (optional)

1/4 kilo pork cut in cubes (or you can use ground pork)

salt, pepper

half a glass of water

Procedure:

Start by removing the first layer of your banana blossom. Cut the tail and start slicing them diagonally from the tip. Once you are done slicing them put them in a bowl and add about two tablespoons of rock salt. Press with your hands to remove the dark juice of the banana blossom, set aside. Warm up the oil in a pan and start sautéing your garlic and onions. Add your meat and prawns and banana blossom. Pour half a glass of water, cover and let it simmer for at least twenty minutes. Check the tenderness of your vegetable, add some salt and pepper, then at the last part of cooking pour your vinegar. Let it simmer for another five minutes. Cut the fire.

Sarsa ng lechon

Hilda — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:16:33 +0000

Ingredients:

half a kilo of chicken liver pounded

one onion sliced

3 cloves of garlic pounded

3 tablespoons of soy sauce

3 tablespoons of sugar

1/4 cup of vinegar

some cooking oil

2 cups of pork broth

3 tablespoons of cornstarch

Procedure:

In a casserole start by warming up the oil. Put the garlic and onion. Sauté them until they become translucide. Add your pounded chicken liver and continue mixing. Put some salt and pepper . Pour your pork broth and let it simmer gently for about thirty minutes. Add the soy sauce and sugar. Continue mixing. Pour the vinegar and taste if it needs more sugar or salt. Then get a laddle of this broth and dissolve the cornstarch before adding it up in your sauce or sarsa. Mix well to avoid having lumpy part. Taste and turn off the fire. It the sauce is too runny add more cornstarch but be sure to dissolve it first on some liquid before adding. The sauce will thicken more if it stays longer on the stove. You can also replace the pork broth with chicken broth; This sauce is an all around sauce you can use for lechon, fried pork or chicken or even fried fishes.

Sweet and Sour Pork

Hilda — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:13:11 +0000

Ingredients:

1 kilo of pork loin slice them bite size pieces

1 egg

half a cup of flour

some cooking oil for frying

3 cloves of garlic

1 onion

some ginger chopped (you can replace this with ginger powder)

1 red bell pepper cut in cubes

1 green bell pepper cut in cubes

1 can of pineapple chunks (drained) and reserve the juice

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

some salt,

1 tablespoon of catsup

1 teaspoon of sugar

1 tablespoon of vinegar

1 teaspoon of cornstarch

some water

Procedure:

Start by beating the egg, then put the flour in a plate. Heat your pan with cooking oil. Put your pork in the beaten egg, add salt and pepper. One by one dredge the pork in the flour and fry them. Cook each side for about three minutes or until its golden in color. Set aside your fried pork. In another clean casserole, pour some cooking oil and start sautéeing your ginger, garlic and onion. add your pork then mix them well. Toss in the peppers and the pineapple. Add all your seasonings: sugar, salt, pepper,catsup, vinegar and soysauce. Put some pineapple juice (about a quarter of a glass) in your pan. Mix them well. Cover and let it simmer gently over low fire. Before turning off the heat, dissolve your cornstarch in a tablespoon of water and add this on to your dish to thicken the sauce. Turn off the fire and serve hot with rice.

Tokwa’t Baboy

Hilda — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:02:59 +0000

Ingredients:

1 block of big fresh tofu

3/4 kilo of pork

3 pieces of shallots chopped

1 thumbsize ginger minced

1/4 cup of vinegar

1 teaspoon of vinegar

3 tablespoon of soysauce (toyo)

5 pieces of hot chili pepper (siling labuyo) optional

salt, pepper

one cup of cooking oil

Procedure:

In a deep casserole pour one liter of water add your pork and add some rock salt. Cover and let it boil for about thirty minutes. With an aid of a fork check the tenderness of your pork. After forty five minutes your pork is ready. You can keep the pork broth in making some soup or for cooking noodles. Get your pork and cut them in cubes once it has completely cooled off then set it aside. In another casserole, pour your cooking oil and let it warm up. Slice your fresh tofu of about 2 centimeter thickness each and deep fry them. They should be golden brown. Better to deep fry them to avoid sticking and breaking your tofu. Cook them gently for about seven minutes each side. It will depend on how hot your pan is. Let them cool and dry in a paper towel. Once it has completely cooled off, cut them in cubes. In a bowl mix the vinegar, soysauce, chopped ginger and shallots together. Add sugar,salt and pepper to taste. Put your cut pork and tofu. Toss them well. Perfect as a side dish with a hot porridge or eat is as a pulutan.

Adobo Pusit

Hilda — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:54:37 +0000

One very important aspect we need to remember when cooking squid is that its never good to over cook them. It gives a tough and rubbery like texture. So for this adobo recipe this is a guaranteed express and yet specially good.

Ingredients:

1 kilo of squid

*it is preferable to use smaller squids for this recipe

* clean your squid by washing them in a running water. Pull gently the plastic like thing (which is actually the bone of a squid) including the tiny pouch carrying the ink (its defense mechanism). Clean them and pat them dry with a paper towel

5 cloves of garlic minced

2 shallots chopped (sibuyas tagalog)

3 tablespoons of cane vinegar (or you can use any type of vinegar available)

1 teaspoon of pepper

some salt

fresh chinese parsley or kintsay chopped

some cooking oil

Procedure:

Start by preparing your marinate. Mix the minced garlic with salt, vinegar and pepper. Let your squid sit in this marinade for a minimum of thirty minutes. Then heat your pan, pour your cooking oil, put your shallots and squid. Cook them as you are stir-frying them. Hot pan, mediumfire and constant mixing. If you use small squids in about five minutes they are already cooked but if you use bigger size seven minutes would be the maximum you can let on your pan. Cut the fire and sprinkle it with your chopped chinese parsley.

Daing na Bangus

Hilda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:13:34 +0000

This is one of my favorite breakfast during weekends. Paired up with a garlic rice and tomato salad absolutely delicious!

Ingredients:

3 big bangus (milkfish)

*the best ones are Bangus from Pangasinan

Rock salt

1 big whole garlic

1 cup of vinegar

Black pepper crushed

Procedure:

Start by cleaning the bangus. You can either request in the market for them to clean your bangus and have it cut or do it yourself. If you will have to do it yourself; start by washing the fish with a clear running water. Cut the fish from the head to the tail using a sharp knife in order to make a butterfly style cut on the fish. The belly of the fish should be facing the cutting table and the knife should touch the back of the fish. Open the bangus wide and take off all the innards including the gills. You don’t need to scale the bangus. Wash it again with clear running water, rub it with salt to clean of all the impurities and to take off the stingy odor. Put all your bangus in a deep bowl put about a teasepoon of rocksalt, a teasepoon of cracked pepper, pound all the garlic and pour your vinegar. Cover it and put it in the fridge. It is better to fry them the next day.

Chicken Pork Adobo

Hilda — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:44:04 +0000

Adobo is Filipino’s all-time favorite dish. A classic one inherited from our great colonizers the Spaniards but definitely filipinized to adopt to our palate. Adobo is so versatile we can almost do it with different kinds of meat, fish or even vegetables. Try this beautiful blending of chicken and pork simmered to perfection! Take note that they taste even better the next day!

Ingredients:

half a kilo of chicken cut into serving pieces

half a kilo of pork cut in cubes (about 3- 4 inches)

one clove of garlic, minced

1 tsp of grated ginger

1 tsp of peppercorn (pamintang buo)

1 tsp of sugar

1/4 soy sauce

1/4 cup of vinegar

2 tbsp of cooking oil

Procedure:

The secret to any adobo is the marinating sauce. And the key to its success is slow cooking. In a salad bowl mix half of the pounded garlic, with sugar, peppercorn, vinegar and soysauce; mix well. Put the cut chicken and the pork into this mixture and cover it. Let it marinate for about 24 hours. The next day put the marinated chicken and pork along with the sauce plus half a glass of water in a casserole and cover it. Let it simmer slowly over medium fire until the juice of the meat has come out and the sauce has reduced. Remove the cover of the casserole then put the cooking oil and the remaining garlic freshly pounded. Fry them altogether. Best served with pandan rice and eaten with your hands!

Bopis

Hilda — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:48:37 +0000

The spicier the better.

This is the best bopis recipe I have learned from my Auntie.

SPICY BOPIS

half a kilo of pig’s heart

one kilo of pig’s lungs

2 1/2 liter of water (for cooking the heart and lung)

half a kilo of minced pork meat (giniling)

three cloves of garlic minced

one head of onion, sliced

tsp of grated ginger

2 tsps of atsuete seeds for coloring

1 red bell pepper

1 small tomato chopped

half a cup of green peas

half a cup of white radish (labanos)

2 laurel leaves

2-3 chili chopped (siling labuyo)

3 tbsps of cooking oil

1/4 cup of vinegar

salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

Start by boiling the heart and lung in a big casserole with lots of water. You can add some ginger, and onion to add more flavor on your innards. Take off your cooked heart and lungs and chop them. You can use a sharp knife or electric blender to chop them more finely. You can use some of this broth for your bopis. In another casserole, pour the cooking oil and start sautéeing your garlic, onion, ginger, tomatoes and red bell peppers. Do not overcook them, once you see the colors have changed and the flavor start to ooze out you can add the minced pork and the chopped heart and lung. Continue stirring add the green peas and sliced radis. Add all the spices; pepper, bay leaves (laurel leaves), cayenne or chilis. For the coloring you can use a yellow food coloring or atsuete seeds dissolved in a hot water. Pour about half a cup of your broth on to the dish. Cover and let it simmer for about fifteen minutes over medium fire. Pour the vinegar and add the salt and let it simmer for another five minutes without stirring and uncovered. Taste and correct the saltiness. Remove from fire. This dish is always served better the next day. Happy Eating!!