Chicken Menudo

I got the chance to make one of my favorites Filipino dish this week called Chicken Menudo. I decided to cook this dish because I have all the ingredients I needed in my fridge. You will find the procedures on how to make this dish below. Comments are welcome. Enjoy!!!!

Ingredients:

1 lb boneless chicken breast, sliced into cubes
3 medium size potatoes, cut into bite size
2 medium size carrots, cut diagonally
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 small onion, sliced into small pieces
1 small can chicken broth
1 tbsp soy sauce (optional)
1 small can tomato sauce
cooking oil
2 medium size jalapeno, cut diagonally (optional)

Steps:

1. Heat cooking oil in the pan. Add onions and garlic and saute the sliced boneless chicken till brown.
2. When the meat turns brown  add the soy sauce plus add the potatoes and carrots and saute for at least 2-3 minutes before adding the chicken broth. Let it boil till meat is cook and add water if needed.
3. Add tomato sauce and let it boil again. Add salt and pepper if needed.
4. I added the jalapeno to give the dish a little kick. Served hot with rice and voila you got a delicious meal easily prepared for you and your family!

 

Pork Estofado

 I have been cooking a lot lately and I loved it. Moving to another city in Texas has been great financially but we are terribly missing El Paso and would love to go back and settle there one day. When I am not working, I usually have plenty of time to make food or baked any goodies that my husband love. Anyway, last week I cooked several Filipino dish but there's one dish that really stood out from the rest. The dish is called Pork Estofado. I got the recipe from Panlasang Pinoy but I tweak the recipe to suit my taste and needs. For instance, I added some potatoes since my husband like potatoes a lot.

Ingredients:

 2 lbs pork belly or (any kind will do)
3-4 ripe plantain, peeled and sliced
2 medium carrots, slice
2 medium potatoes, slice
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 c soy sauce
3 pieces dried bay leaves
1/4 cup cane vinegar
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 1/2 cup water
cooking oil
salt to taste

Steps:

1. Heat the oil in a cooking pan.
2. Saute the garlic until it turns a little brown.
3. Add the meat and cook for 2 minutes.
4. Add-in the soy sauce, water, bay leaves and ground black pepper. Let it boil and simmer for 30-40 minutes (till meat is tender).
5. Add vinegar and sugar. Cook for another 15 minutes (add water if needed).
6. Add the potatoes and carrots. Then add the banana. Cook for another 10 minutes.
7. Add salt to taste. Serve hot with rice!

Pork Ginagmay/Baboy Ginagmay

My mom and my grandmother has always been my greatest inspiration when it comes to cooking some delicious traditional food from the Philippines. I grew up watching them prepare food everyday in our kitchen as well as trying out new recipes for the entire family. So today, I decided to share with you guys this delicious recipe which can be prepared in various ways. Below, is my take on this recipe called Pork Ginagmay which are served pretty much in every little restaurants in the Philippines.

Ingredients: 

1 lb. pork (stew meat/slice into bite size)
2 large potatoes (slice into cubes)
2 tbsp. soy sauce
1 cup water
1/2 cup of green peas
1 tbsp. asuete (optional)
salt and pepper to taste
4 cloves garlic (minced)
1 small onion
cooking oil
1 large bell pepper (green,red,orange)

Steps:

1. Saute the garlic and onions. Add the meat, saute until the pinkish color is gone. Simmer the meat for a minute or two.

2. Add the asuete (food coloring) and stir, add soy sauce and simmer for another five minutes.

3. Add 1 cup of water and simmer until the meat becomes tender. When the meat is tender, you can finally add the carrots and potatoes and simmer for another 3 minutes or so.

4. Lastly, add the green peas and bell pepper. Simmer until it is done. Serve hot with steam rice. Enjoy folks!

Various Filipino Foods

There are only 3 months in the calendar that my family in the Philippines doesn't have any birthday celebration to celebrate. Last January my sister Evonne celebrates her twenty-first birthday and my family made a little dinner celebration for her with some extended family members and friends from church in attendance. Next week, my brother Eric will be celebrating his 20th birthday on February the 10th.

I wish to be present during this celebration with my younger siblings but I can't because I am too far away from them. All I can do is watch them during the celebration using through internet video chatting. By the way, I have uploaded a picture below which is a photo taken during my sister's birthday celebration. Here's what my Mama cook for her.

Yummy Dinner

I have been cooking a lot of different food lately but I haven't had the chance to upload all the pictures. Anyways, earlier this evening I have the chance to make some pork cracklings and pork tocino for our dinner. I was actually really impressed of the result. This is my first attempt to make my own chicharon or better known as pork crackling and guys what do you think of the picture below?

Sweet and Sour Pork

Well, it was about two weeks ago when I made the sweet and sour pork for our dinner. My friend Lexy visited us from out of town that is why I decided to cook the sweet and sour pork. Here are the lists of ingredients and procedures below.

Ingredients:

1 pound pork sirloin, cut them into cubes or bite size
1 big carrot
1 green bell pepper
1 red bell pepper
1 medium size red onion
1 piece of egg, beaten
2 servings of sweet and sour sauce
1/2- 1 cup flour
2 tablespoon of soy sauce
1/2-1 cup of corn starch
cooking oil
water

Steps/Procedures:
1. Marinate the pork in a bowl with soy sauce. Marinate the meat for 30 minutes to 1 hour it depends on your choice.
2. Put the cooking oil in a pan and heat up
3. Mix the flour and corn starch in a plate
4. Dip the marinated meat in your cornstarch and flour mixture
5. Fry them in the heated cooking oil until brown. Set aside
6. In another pan, place the sweet and sour sauce
7. Place the carrots together with the heated sweet and sour for about 5 minutes and simmer
8. Place the onion, green bell pepper and red bell pepper into the pan together with the sweet and sour and carrots. Simmer for another 5 minutes or so
9. Make sure to add extra water to the sauce if needed so it won't dry up
10. Lastly, place the fried meat together with the sweet and sour sauce, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, onions and carrots
11. Cook for another 3-5 minutes
12. Serve with hot rice

Nilagang Baka

There are many ways on how to cook Nilagang Baka in the Philippines. My mother taught me how to cook this delicious meal at a tender age of nine. Well, here is my own recipe.


Ingredients:

1 pound of beef (cut into cubes or bite size)
2 big potatoes (cut into bit size)
3 small potatoes (cut crosswise)
celery (optional)
1 small size cabbage
soy sauce or fish sauce
scallions (optional)

Procedure:

1. Boiled the beef meat for 1 to 2 hours (until meat is tender)
2. When the meat is ready add the potatoes and carrots. Simmer for another 15 minutes or until vegetables are cook.
3. Add soy sauce or fish sauce to taste
4. Add cabbage and scallions
5. Serve hot.

Enjoy everyone!

Pork Afritada

Pork Afritada is one of the many popular dishes from the Philippines. I have made my Pork Afritada earlier this evening for our dinner and ta-dang.....it was a success. Below is the complete list of the ingredients.


Ingredients:

2 lbs pork, bite size
1 big potato, cut into wedges
1 big carrot, cut into wedges
dried bay leaves (optional)
2 can tomato sauce
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 ½ cups pork broth
1 big bell pepper, diced
1 tsp garlic, minced
1 cup onion, chopped
2 tbsp cooking oil
Salt

Procedures/Steps:

1. Heat the cooking oil and sauté the garlic and onions
2. Add the pork and sauté until the outer parts are cooked about five minutes or so
3. Add the bay leaves and tomato sauce then simmer for 5 to 10 minutes
4. Add the ground black pepper then pour-in the pork broth. Simmer for 40 minutes or until the meat is tender and cooked
5. Put the potato and carrots then simmer for another 7 minutes
6. Add the bell pepper and simmer it for another 3 minutes
7. Add salt to taste (optional)
8. Serve with rice or any side dishes of your choice.

Humba

Humba is a popular dish that most Filipinos cook during special occasions such as fiesta, Christmas, birthdays, New Year and more. Listed below are the ingredients that you will need to have when you make this delicious meal called humba.

 Ingredients:

2 lbs pork belly
1 cup Pineapple juice
1 large onion, diced
5 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons salted black beans
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 ½ tablespoons brown sugar
2 pieces dried bay leaves
1 teaspoon whole peppercorn
dried banana blossom (optional)

Procedures:

• Heat the cooking pot then brown the pork belly

•  Add the onions and garlic and cook until the onions are soft

• Put-in the soy sauce, peppercorn, bay leaves

• Pour-in the pineapple juice and let boil. Simmer until the pork is tender. You can also add water as needed.

•  Add the vinegar and wait for the mixture to re-boil. Simmer for 3 minutes

• Spoon-in the salted black beans and brown sugar then simmer for 5 minutes

•  Add the dried banana blossoms and simmer for 5 to 8 minutes (optional)

•   Transfer to a serving plate and serve with steam rice.