Shredded Chicken Omelette

A simple chicken dish that suits your budget and taste. It doesn't take a long time to prepare and cook this, try and enjoy your cooking.

Ingredients:
1/4 kilo chicken breast ( boiled and shredded)
1 onion ( minced)
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
3 eggs ( beaten)
3/4 cup flour

Procedure:
1. Combine everything and mix well.

2. Spoon a portion then deep fry until golden brown.

3. Serve it hot.

Ginataang Gulay

One of the Filipino vegetable dish that I love so much. Simple but nutritious and delicious. Ginataang gulay or vegetables stewed in coconut milk, varied in different places and depends on the person cooking it, you can put different vegetables of your choice.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo squash
2 eggplants
5 okra pods
1 cup malunggay
fried fish
salt to taste
2 cups light coconut milk ( ikalawang piga na may halong tubig)
2 cups thick coconut milk ( kakang gata or yong unang piga na walang tubig)

Procedure:
1. In a pot put the light coconut milk, ginger, onion, fried fish and squash then bring to a boil.
2. Once boiling simmer for 3 minutes then add the eggplant and okra and simmer until tender then increase the heat to high.
3. Add the thick coconut milk and malunggay then simmer for a minute and turn off the heat.
4.Serve hot.

Fish Chicharon

I visited one city today and salmon skin is abundant because they removed it when they do salmon fillet, then sell the skin in a very affordable price so I thought of making it into fish crackling or chicharon. Here is my recipe for it.

Ingredients

Fish skin  ( Salmon skin)
Salt and Pepper to taste
oil for deep frying

Procedure:
1. Wash the Fish skin very well and drain the water.
2. After draining the fish skin put salt and pepper to taste then dry under the heat of the sun for an hour or two.

3. Deep fry until golden brown and crispy.

4. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce.

If you dont want to dry it under the sun, just put some flour and deep fry in a very hot oil.

Paksiw na Isda

Fish Paksiw or stewed fish in vinegar is one of the popular dishes in Philippines, the taste is uniquely delicious becuase all the ingredients blended well producing a taste that you will surely love. One of my favorite fish dishes.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo fish ( any fish of your choice)
3/4 cup vinegar
4 cloves garlic ( crushed)
thumb size ginger
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. In a pot put all the ingredients and let it boil.
2. If the taste of the vinegar is so strong, you can add a little water.
3. Simmer for few  minutes until it is cooked.
4. Serve it with rice.

Macaroni Pastel

I made this macaroni dish for some hungry friends :-) Only elbow macaroni and ground beef in the refrigerator  and some cooking stuffs in the kitchen rack, I start to imagine dishes which I can get an idea from and make something yummy with my ingredients. I came up with this kind of macaroni soup which I called macaroni pastel. It taste delicious in a light tomato sauce. Try it.

Ingredients:
1 cup elbow macaroni
1/2 cup ground beef
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
4 cups water
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the ground beef and simmer until pinkish color is gone.
2. Add salt, pepper and tomato sauce then simmer for 3 minutes over medium heat stirring every now and then.
3. Add the water then bring to a boil then add the macaroni and simmer until cooked stirring occasionally.
4. Serve hot.

Kutsinta Without Lye Water

It's been a long time since I am longing to make kutsinta but the thing that is preventing me from making this is the lye water, because it is not available in my place. Today, I am very happy that there is an option for lye water and that is the REDUCED BAKING SODA, to learn how to make it click the link below:
http://melyskitchen.blogspot.com.br/2013/04/how-to-make-reduced-baking-soda.html

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 cup  sugar
1 tsp annatto powder ( atsuete)
1 1/2 cups water
1 tsp reduced baking soda  ( make sure it is REDUCED baking soda ) do not put too much or it will have an after taste effect- bitter.


Procedure:
1. Sift all the dry ingredients then combine everything and pour into molders and steam for 30 minutes or until done.

2. Remove from steamer then allow few minutes to cool before removing from the molders then serve with or without grated coconut.

To save time, prepare the steamer while you are preparing the kutsinta mixture, so that the water is already boiling after the preparation and you can steam right away.

You might also like:
Kutsinta Original recipe
Kutsinta another option

Special Misua

It's cold and windy in my place that is why I have decided to cook misua. Misua is a very thin Filipino noodles and has  a smooth texture making it easy to swallow. I love this dish since I was a kid.

Ingredients:
100 grams misua
1 can sardines in tomato sauce
5 cups water
spring onion
 Fried fish balls
2 cloves garlic
1 onion
salt to taste
ground pepper

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the sardines and simmer for few minutes.
2. add the water and bring to a boil, then add the misua and simmer until soft.
3. Add the spring onion and salt to taste then  turn off the heat.
4. Serve hot and drop some fried fish balls and pepper,  happy eating :-)

Beef Curry Filipino Style

Curry powder is not so popular in Philippine cuisine,  but there are some dishes that calls for this spice specially the meat and vegetables curries. I cooked this Filipino style beef curry for my family to appreciate this spice, because for them the fragrant of curry powder is too strong, that is why I promised them to cook Filipino style curry making it lighter, and they were able to appreciate the dish.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo beef sirloin or tenderloin cut to your desired size
1 carrot
2 potatoes
2 tablespoons ginger strips
2 tablespoons curry powder
1 small bell pepper
1 onion
2 cups coconut milk
3 cloves garlic
salt and pepper to taste
water ( enough to make the beef tender)

Procedure:
1. Saute the ginger and garlic until brownish, then add the onion and curry powder, then simmer for a minute, add the beef then simmer for 5  minutes allowing the beef to absorb the curry flavor.
2. Add water and let boil until the beef is tender.
3. If it is already tender add the carrots, potatoes and bell pepper then simmer until done.
4. Add the coconut milk, salt and pepper to taste, simmer for 2 minutes and tun off the heat.
5. Serve it hot.

How to Make Reduced Baking Soda

I made this reduced baking soda for my kutsinta recipe, because kutsinta needs a lye water which is very difficult to find in my place so I looked for a solution by searching in the internet and reading different sources like forums and websites. This is how to make a reduced baking soda, a substitute for lye water.

I pre-heated the oven for 5 minutes then baked 1/2 cup of baking soda at 150 degrees celcius for 80 minutes,  I let it cool and put in an air tight container, now I am ready to make kutsinta. How about you?

Any recipe that calls for lye water, this is a substitute for it.

Glorious Camote

I was spending time with my friends when I invented this recipe ( I do not know if there is already something like this, if there is then I am not the first) I saw some sweet potatoes and spring roll wrappers so I decided to make something out of it, and they said that it is yummy, here is the recipe for it.

Ingredients:
2 big sweet potatoes ( camote)
1/2 cup condensed milk
10 spring roll wrappers
1/2 cup sugar

Procedure:
1. Boil the sweet potatoes until cooked then mash it.

2. Combine the mashed sweet potato and condensed milk, then wrap in a spring roll wrapper.

3. Deep fry with sugar until cooked then serve.