Friday, March 26, 2010

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Featured Filipino Dishes 4


Chicken Curry Recipe (Filipino Style)


This curry recipe is one of my favorite Filipino chicken recipes in the database. In my family, chicken curry is a dish that we usually make during birthdays and parties back in the Philippines. But here in Canada, I continue cooking this chicken dish during special occasions because this is one of my famous Filipino recipe that my family and friends loves. They said that when they start eating this chicken curry, they feel a little burning sensation in their mouth and wow really spicy delicious.

Well, many countries had their own version of chicken curry but for me, the Filipino chicken curry is still the best.

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

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Cooking Procedures :

  1. Pan fry potatoes. Set aside.
  2. In the same pan, fry chicken pieces and brown a little.
  3. Add garlic and onion. Sauté for a few minutes until soft.
  4. Pour in patis and season with curry powder, salt and pepper. Stir for 2 minutes.
  5. Add water. Cover and bring to a boil. Lower the heat; add celery, bell peppers and fried potatoes. Simmer for 3 minutes or until half done.
  6. Add milk and stir occasionally. Cook for another 7 minutes (or lesser when using evaporated milk because the liquids will curled).
  7. Remove from heat. Serve hot.

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Featured Filipino Dishes 3


Tinolang Manok (Chicken Ginger Stew with Vegetables) recipe is the filipino food dish that I was planning to cook when I arrived here in Canada. Tinolang manok recipe is a filipino food that is easy to cook but during that time, I don't know where to buy filipino ingredients specially papaya, sayote, chili leaves or malunggay and I thought that I couldn't cook filipino food dishes anymore.

But as I got familiar to places here, I've notice that cooking in Canada is not that difficult, as I have taught before. We even travel for an hour from our place just to buy filipino food ingredients. These filipino food ingredients are usually sold in Asian stores but some are not that often displayed. So, looking for a substitute is my next best option. Like this tinolang manok recipe, when I went to my favorite Asian store, the frozen malunggay or the chili leaves that I notice before are not there to be found, so I just used the spinach because they are abundant and it was recommended by a friend of mine.

Cooking away from your native country is challenging but enjoyable, especially when you are with your love ones. Happy Cooking!
Ingredients :

  • 1 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces (or any choice cuts of your liking like thighs, drumsticks or wings)
  • 1 thumb-sized fresh ginger root, cut into strips
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 tbsp. patis (fish sauce)
  • salt, to taste
  • 4 to 5 cups water (or rice water – 2nd washing)
  • 2 to 3 sayote (chayote squash), quartered (or green, unripe papaya or potatoes)
  • 1 cup sili (chili) leaves or malunggay or substitute 1/2 lb. spinach
  • vegetable oil

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Cooking Procedures :

  1. In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Sauté ginger and garlic until fragrant. Add onions, stir-fry until softened and translucent.
  2. Add chicken cuts. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes until chicken colors slightly. Season with patis and salt.
  3. Pour in water (or rice water, if using). Bring to a boil. Lower the heat and let it simmer until chicken is half-done. Add in chayote (or papaya or potatoes, if using). Continue simmering until chicken and vegetable are tender. Correct seasonings and then addsili leaves or malunggay or substitute. Stir to combine until well blended. Remove from heat.
  4. Let stand for a few minutes to cook the green vegetables. Transfer to a serving dish and serve hot.

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Featured Filipino Dishes 2


Guinataang Halo-Halo (Coconut Milk Medley)


Guinataang halo-halo or coconut milk medley or "binignit" in Bisaya, is one of the merienda that we usually have during Lenten season back in the Philippines. We have this ginataang halo-halo every afternoon especially during holy week, this is our family tradition.

Ingredients :

  • 5 cups fresh coconut milk (or 1 can coconut milk, diluted with 4 cups water)
  • 1 pandan leaf
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 gabi (taro root or yam), cut into cubes
  • 2 ripe saba (plantain bananas), cut into cubes
  • 1 medium sweet potato, cut into cubes
  • 1/2 cup preserved langka, drained and cut into strips
  • 2 tbsp. quick-cooking tapioca

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Cooking Procedures :

  1. Simmer coconut milk and pandan leaf over moderate heat. Stir in sugar until dissolved.
  2. Add sweet potato, gabi and saba(plantain bananas) into simmering coconut milk and cook for 20 minutes or until soft.
  3. Add langka and tapioca. (If using regular tapioca, add it with the sweet potatoes because it takes longer to cook.)
  4. Tapioca is cooked when it turns clear. If a white spot is still visible in the center, cook until it disappears for about 5 minutes more. Taste and add more sugar if necessary.
  5. Serves 6 to 8.
VARIATION:
Add bilo-bilo after tapioca is fully cooked. Guinataang Bilo-bilo (Glutinous Rice Flour Balls in Coconut Syrup)

To make bilo-bilo, combine 1 cup glutinous rice flour with 1/2 cup water, mix until well blended, knead a few times until smooth. (Follow Bilo-bilo procedure, see recipe.) Add sticky rice balls to simmering coconut milk. Remove from heat when all balls float to the top.

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Featured Filipino Dishes

Pansit Molo

Need to know how to cook pancit molo recipe or pancit molo soup? Guess what!? This filipino food, pancit molo, has the term "pancit" or "pansit" which means (noodles) in its name but actually doesn't use any ingredient of noodles or "pancit" in its recipe. Unlike other pancit recipe, pancit molo is not dry but souply and does not used noodles but it uses either wonton, siomai or molo wrappers.

Ingredients :

  • 1 pack molo (or siomai/wonton) wrappers

Filling

  • 1/2 lb. ground pork
  • 1/2 lb. shrimps, chopped
  • 1 small singkamas (turnip), chopped finely
  • 1 small carrot, chopped finely
  • 1/2 tsp. ground pepper
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 egg

Broth

  • 2 tbsp. oil
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 250 grams ground pork
  • 100 grams sweet ham, chopped
  • 100 grams shrimps, peeled
  • 6 cups chicken broth
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • chopped spring onions, to garnish
  • fried garlic, to garnish

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Cooking Procedures :

  1. Mix all ingredients for the filling. Get one molo wrapper and put a little filling in the center. Fold the wrapper, to make the two ends meet to seal. Repeat procedure to wrap all the fillings. Set aside.
  2. In a saucepan, heat oil. Sauté garlic and onions. Add in the pork, ham and shrimps. Cook for a few minutes and then add the broth.
  3. Bring to a boil and then drop in the stuffed molo wrappers. Season to taste. Cover and let it boil again. Reduce heat and let it simmer for a few minutes.
  4. Serve hot. Topped with spring onions and fried garlic.
  5. Makes 4-6 servings.

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