Pork Caldereta Recipe

Here's what I prepared for lunch today...Caldereta! One of my fave Filipino dish. Very very easy to do. Picture to follow.

INGREDIENTS
Pork cubes worth 50pesos
1 small can of Reno liver spread
1 small sachet of Del Monte tomato sauce
1 can of garbanzos
3 medium size potato
1 bell pepper
1 siling haba, sliced without seeds 
1 medium onion
4 garlic cloves
1 Knorr chicken broth cubes
Pepper


PREPARATION
Heat oil in pan, add pork fats, fry until brown and crispy
Saute garlic and onion, then add pork cubes
Add 1.5 cup of water
Add chicken broth cube
Add Reno liver spread and tomato sauce
Wait until the sauce is slightly reduced
Add potatoes, garbanzos, bell pepper and siling haba
Season with pepper
Cook until potatoes are tender

Serve while hot! Enjoy!

Sauteed Chicken and Apple Recipe

Looong timeeee no blog! Well well well...I wasn't really busy these past months, I just don't feel like blogging because no one blogs anymore!!!

Anyway, here's another pacham recipe I'd like to share. First time I tried using apple in a dish. I cooked this last NY at home and it tasted ok (just don't match this with rice). Enjoy!

 

Chicken and Apples

Ingredients:

Chicken breast
Apples (sliced)
Apple juice
Lots of White onion (sliced)
Garlic (chopped)
Thyme
Salt and Pepper
Oil / butter

Saute chicken breast in oil/butter, fry until slightly brown
Add garlic and onion (do not overcook)
Add salt and pepper
Add apple juice (unsweetened)
Add the sliced apple
Add thyme

Vegetable Chowder Recipe

 

Vegetable Chowder Recipe

I like this vegetable chowder recipe very much! Perfect during cold weather. I tried cooking it while doing the GM diet  a few weeks back and it really tasted yummy and satisfying. A few of my officemates even asked for the recipe. If you're trying to add more veggies in your diet, try this and you'll love it!

Ingedients:
Butter
2 onions, chopped
1 large bell pepper, chopped
1 cauliflower
1 large carrot, cubed
2 broccolis
2 potatoes
Celery
1 big can Carnation Evap
1/4 cup flour
Salt
Pepper
Chicken cubes
3 cups of water

Preparation:
Blanch cauliflower and broccoli, set aside (2-3mins)
Mix 1 can of carnation and 1/4 cup of flour, set aside
Saute onions and bell pepper in butter (do not overcook)
Add carrots, potatoes (do not overcook)
Add celery
Add 3 cups of water
Add chicken cubes
Add milk/flour mixture
Add blanched cauliflower and broccoli
Add salt and pepper to taste.

Cook in low heat. Serve while hot! Enjoy!!!

Chicken Mushroom With Broccoli

Here's another easy and yummy chicken recipe I'd like to share. I cooked this yesterday and it turned out...edible. Lols. Modesty aside, I think it turned out yummy. It's easy to do, healthy and yes, wont hurt your pocket.

 

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo of Chicken strips / fillet
Broccoli worth 40P (I bought in Quiapo market so it's cheaper)
1 small can of mushroom
Ginger, thinly sliced
Soy sauce
3-4 tbsp Cornstarch

Preparation:

- Blanch or steam your broccoli. I steamed my broccoli along with rice, I just used a steam pan placed on top of my rice cooker, this way it'll be cheaper and easier - no need to boil and drain water. Let it steam for 1 min, then pour cold water on them so they'll retain their perfect green color.
- Marinate chicken strips/fillets in soy sauce and ginger
- Add 2-3 tbsp. of cornstarch on your marinate, blend well
- Set aside for at least 30mins
- Heat oil in a pan
- Saute the marinated chicken
- Add 1 cup of water, mix well until sauce thickens
- Add the mushroom
- Lastly, add the broccoli
- Serve on top of hot rice

Total expenses: 170P
Good for 8 - 10 servings

Easy Chopsuey Recipe

I absolutely love this dish! Very healthy and very easy to prepare. Here's my pacham recipe of this delectable Chinese dish, Chopsuey! Hope you'll like it.

Ingredients:
1/4 kilo of chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces
1/4 kilo of chicken liver
Shrimp, peeled
1 big Cauliflower
Chicharo / Sitsaro
Cabbage
1 whole Carrot, julienne cut
1 big red bell pepper
Garlic and Onion
Fish sauce or salt
2 tsp. Sesame oil
Mix 2 tblsp. cornstarch and water in a separate bowl


Prepearation:
Blanch the cauliflower first, set aside
Sautee garlic and onion, add chicken then the liver
Add 1/2 cup of water, salt or fish sauce to taste
Add cornstarch + water mixture
Add carrots, sitsaro, cabbage, cauliflower and bell pepper
Add 2 tsp. of sesame oil

Chopsuey tastes better when half cooked so make sure to not over cook your veggies. Enjoy!

Shrimp Tempura and Onion Rings Recipe

This is my first attempt at making TEMPURA, and sadly, it failed. For this one, I used a tempura batter mix that I bought at Japan Japan last week while buying Mimi a gift for her birthday. It didn't help that the instructions were written in Japanese so I had to guess how much water to put in the mix. From what I know, cooking tempura requires ice cold water, I did that, but the batter didn't stick well after frying.

I know where I went wrong. The batter was not thick enough and I also forgot to dry the shrimps (by damping paper towel on them) before dipping them on the batter. Nevertheless, it's still yummy.

The remaining batter, I used for onion rings. It wasn't that crispy.  

Few days after, I tried eggplant tempura and I made sure the batter was thick enough to hold them together. Guess what!? It's still not perfect :( Moral of the story is, before buying tempura batter mix, make sure you understand the instructions at the back!

Maybe, I should just try homemade batter next time.

How To Cook Tikoy

How do you like your TIKOY done?

For years, I always cook Tikoy in old fashion way - dipped in egg then fried. Yummy but the taste is a bit boring, right? So last Chinese NY, I decided to reinvent the tikoy I received from Jun (Ruthie's bf) and came up with Lumping Tikoy.

Ingredients:

New Echague Bakery Tikoy (the best tikoy in town)

Kraft Eden Cheese

Preparation:

Cut tikoy into 4 parts then thin slices (about 2-3 inches long, 1/8inch thick)

Cut cheese into thin long strips

Roll tikoy with cheese in lumpia sheets/spring roll

Deep fry

Serve hot

This tastes really really good. Sweet, sticky, crunchy and cheesy! You can also use langka, Nutella chocolate spread, cheezwiz, peanut batter and strawberry jam instead of cheese. The next day, I dipped the remaining tikoy with Pillsbury hotcake batter then fried it...and it tasted equally good!

A bit late but Kung Hei Fat Choi!  :)

Easy Carbonara Recipe

My favorite Carbonara has got to be the one from Jack's Loft. Sinful up to the last bite. Perfect al dente linguine pasta with creamy white sauce and bacon...oh la la! PERFECT! I have been cooking Carbonara for quite a while but still can't manage to achieve the same perfection.

Anyway, heree is my own version of Carbonara:

2 cans of big Alaska Evap Milk
1 250ml All Purpose Cream
1/4 cup grated cheese
1 small can of mushroom (drained)
5 pcs of sweet ham chopped into small pieces (or bacon)
1 tsp. butter

1/2 kilo of pasta linguine (check the packaging for directions)

Sautee ham into butter, add mushroon, then evap milk and cream. Mix all the remaining ingredients together. Wait until it gets condensed and creamy. Top it with more cheese and dried oregano. Serve hot or cold. Enjoy!

Special Omelette Recipe

This recipe has got to be one of my best pachams! It started when there's a single slice of left over SPAM ham in the fridge one day. Too tired to eat it so I cut it into small pieces, added some bell peppers (NOTE: bell peppers are rich sources of some of the best nutrients), eggs and cheese! Yummy!

Ingredients:
Potato balls
1 whole red bell peppers
4 eggs
1 slice of SPAM HAM
cheese


Procedure:
Cut potato ball into half the fry it, set aside
Heat oil in a pan
Saute ham and bell pepper together
Add egg (slightly beaten)
Season with salt or ajiginisa
Top with cheese

You can try adding diff ingredients like mushrooms, corn etc. Last week I decided to use ground pork instead of ham and it tastes good as well. Local meat loaf is also a good alternative but haven't tried it yet. Will try this with century tuna one of these days.

Expenses: around 80.00P
Servings: 4-6

Simple Chicken Ala King Recipe

Here's my first attempt at Chicken ala King.

I absolutely love this dish. I'm soo proud I was able to cook it because I don't really know how it's done. It turned out to be really yummy. Enjoy!

1/2 chicken fillet (cut into small pieces)
1 carrot (diced)
4 potatoes (diced)
1 bell pepper
1 small can of mushroom
1 small can of green peas
1 big onion
3 cloves garlic
1 cup chicken broth
small can of Carnation evap milk
1/4 cup of Nestle cream


CHICKEN BROTH:
Boil chicken in 2 cups of water, dash of salt and pepper and 1 small onion

Preparation:
Sautee garlic and onion
Add bell pepper, mushroom and chicken
Season with salt and pepper
Add 1 cup of chicken broth
Simmer for 3mins
Add potatoes and carrots
Add carnation evap and nestle cream
cook for another 3mins or until the veggies are cook

Serve with rice or pasta! Yummy!


Servings: 10-12
Total Expenses: 226P