Baked Tilapia

A simple dish that tastes good and very easy to prepare.

Ingredients for 2-3 servings:
1 big tilapia
1 tomato (diced)
1 onion (diced)
1 tablespoon lemon or calamansi juice
1 tablespoon soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Combine the tomato, onion, soy sauce and lemon juice.

2. Stuff the tilapia head and belly with the mixture.

3. Then sprinkle the whole tilapia with salt and pepper then wrap with foil and bake at 200 degrees celcius for 40 minutes.

4. Serve hot and do not forget to smile :)

Pork Caldereta

July 20,2013

Caldereta is one of the most popular Filipino food prepared during special occasions or family gatherings. Various meats can be used for this recipe and cooked with tomato sauce. Here is my easy version of this recipe and I am proud to say that this is delicious. :-)

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork
2 potatoes (cubed)
1 carrot ( cubed)
1 cup Pineapple chunks
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
bell pepper
1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup Nestle cream
2 tablespoon soy sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
peppercorn (pamintang buo) optional

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the pork, allow to simmer until the pinkish color of meat is gone.
2. Add the soy sauce and tomato sauce then allow to simmer for few minutes until the meat will soak the flavor from spices and sauces.
3. Add the carrots and potatoes then stir and simmer until half cooked.
4. Add the pineapple and simmer for few minutes to enhance the flavor.
5. Add the bell pepper, peppercorn and Nestle cream then simmer until done, add salt and pepper to taste then serve.

I cooked this on Oct 28, 2013

You can add green peas for this recipe, and if you have enough time it is yummier if you can fried the potaoes and carrot.

Spaghetti Sausage Soup

It's raining and we want something hot but there is not a lot in the refrigerator, so I decided to make up a soup which turn out to be so good.

Ingredients for 6 servings:
2 chilli sausage or longganisa ( Sliced into rings)
200 grams spaghetti
100 grams cabbage
1 cup fresh or evaporated milk
8 cups water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the sausage and saute until cooked.
2. Add the water and bring to a boil.
3. Add the spaghetti, salt and pepper and simmer until the spaghetti is cooked.
4. Add the cabbage and milk then simmer for a minute and serve.

You can add carrots and spring onion for this recipe.

Chicken Pastel

Do you want your taste buds to be delighted? Go for this creamy and delicious chicken recipe.

Ingredients for 6 servings

3 cloves garlic, chopped
1  onion, chopped
1/2 kilo chicken breast (cut to your desired size)
2 med. size potato
1 med. size carrot
1  bell pepper
3 pieces  chicken hotdog or 1 cup chorizo slices
1 cup Nestle Cream
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Saute the garlic and onion, then add the chicken and simmer for 3 minutes.

2. Add carrots & potatoes, stir it well and simmer until half cooked.
3. Add the bell pepper and hotdog, stir and simmer for 2 minutes.
4. Pour in the all purpose cream then season with salt and ground pepper and simmer until done.
5. Serve hot.

Stir Fried Vegetables with Crab sticks

A delicious stir fried veggies that suits your taste regardless of your race. I have chosen to combine these veggies for a very good reason including health and blending of taste. Try and taste this recipe and do not forget to let me know :-)

Ingredients for 3-4 servings
4 crab sticks
200 grams broccoli
200 grams cauliflower
1 cup sliced button mushrooms
1 bunch asparagus
1 carrot
1 small green bell pepper
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons oyster sauce

Crab sticks

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the crab sticks and simmer for a minute.

2.Add the water and allow to boil then increase the heat.
3.Add all the vegetables and stir fry until done.

4. Add the oyster sauce and simmer for a minute then turn off the heat.

5. Serve hot.

Gelatine Pandan Salad

An aromatic gelatine salad that is so yummy and creamy. It is inevitable that your mouth will water, when you smell the aroma of pandan leaves blended with milk and cream. Tempting!

Ingredients for 7-8 servings
24 grams green unflavored gelatine
12 grams red unflavored gelatine
12 grams yellow unflavored gelatine
1 cup condensed milk
2 cups nestle cream
12 Pandan leaves ( cut)
1 cup pandan water.

Powdered unflavored gelatine

Pandan leaves

 Procedure:
1.Boil the pandan with 4 litres of water for 20-30 minutes or until you can smell the pandan scent from the boiling water then set aside.

2. By using the pandan water cook the gelatin according to its packaging procedure and let cool then slice into dice or cube.

 3. Mix All the ingredients, refrigerate then serve.

Carioca na may linga

One of the delicious Filipino dainties that is popular in Philippines. Made with powdered glutinous rice and coated with sugar added with toasted sesame seeds that add scent in every bite. Try this.

Ingredients for 4-5 servings
3 cups glutinous rice powder
1 1/2 cup water
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup coconut milk
1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds ( linga)

Procedure:
1.Mix the water, 1/4 cup sugar and glutinous rice until you formed a dough like mixture.
2. Scoop a portion then form into balls by using your hands. Then fry until done and put in a bamboo skewer.

3. Combine the coconut milk and sugar until caramelized then add the toasted sesame seeds.

4. Pour over the cooked carioca then serve.

Stir Fried Watercress

Watercress is one of the green leafy vegetables that's abundant at the market near my place, it is also one of the vegetable that tastes great.  I cooked this out of curiosity if it taste good if I stir fry it, and the result is really good. Try it.

Ingredients for 2 servings:
1 bunch of watercress
100 grams ground beef
3 cloves garlic
some red pepper ( chopped)
2 tablespoons soy sauce
salt to taste

Watercress

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the ground beef and simmer until cooked.
2. Increase the heat then add the watercress and stir fry until almost done.
3. Add the rest of the ingredients then simmer for a minute and turn off the heat.
4. Serve it hot with rice.

Tinolang Manok

Tinolang Manok( Filipino stewed chicken) is one of the popular dishes in Philippines. Horse Radish (malunggay) and melon grass ( tanglad) are added to the dish, but sad that tanglad is not available in my place. The original for this recipe uses native chicken, but in my place it is not available and I am dying to have chicken tinola so I just used the broiler. The taste is still excellent.  Here is how I prepared it.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo chicken
thumb size ginger( strips)
3 cloves garlic
1 small onion
1 small unripe papaya or sayote
1 cup horse radish ( malunggay)
spring onion
6 cups rice washing
1/4 cup fish sauce (patis) optional
Salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Saute the garlic, ginger and onion
2. Add the chicken and braised for few minutes.
3. Add the fish sauce(patis), if there is no fish sauce just put salt and pepper, simmer for 5 minutes to allow the flavors to blend well.
4. Add the rice washing and bring to a boil until the chicken meat is cook.
5. Add the papaya then simmer until almost done.
6. Add the horse radish then simmer for 30 seconds and turn off the heat, then serve hot. :-).

Monggo na may Pata

Mung bean or monggo is an affordable food that you can cook deliciously, because it has a natural delicious flavor, that is why when you add other ingredients for your monggo recipe the flavor will be enhanced making the dish very delicious, no wonder it became a household favorite among Filipinos. There are various monggo recipe all over the Philippines, different vegetables can be used also with monggo and I have few versions here in my blog and I wanna add this one :-). This is very simple and not a plan to cook this but it was so cold and nothing in the refrigerator to make a good soup. So I made this and we enjoyed it.

Ingredients for 4-5 servings
1/2 kilo pata ( pork hocks)
1 Cup of monggo beans (mung bean)
3 Cloves of garlic
1 onion (diced)
1  tomato (diced)
salt and pepper to taste
water that is enough to cook the beans and pork hocks

Procedure:
1. In  pot cook the mung bean (monggo ) with enough water until tender.
2. While cooking the beans we can start cooking the pork hocks ( pata) to make it tender by sauteing  the garlic, onion and tomato, once sauted add the pork hocks and simmer for few minutes then add water that is enough to make it tender.
3. Once the monggo and pata are tender combine it by transfereng the monggo to the pot of pata then continue to simmer over low heat for 15 minutes or until done, allowing the flavors to combine well.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste then garnish with spring onion and serve.

Note: You can add your favorite vegetable for this recipe.