pancit palabok

my Mama's favorite. 

Ingredients

Palabok Noodles / Sauce

1/2 kilo miki noodles

1/2 kilo small crabs

5 cloves of garlic, minced

1 onion, chopped

2 tablespoons of atchuete seeds or oil

2 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)

4 tablespoons of cornstarch, dissolved in water

1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate (MSG)

1 1/2 cups of water

Palabok toppings

Tinapa flakes (smoked fish)Cooked shrimps, shelledSquid adobo, sliced into ringsPork chicharon, groundedSpring onions, choppedHard boiled eggs, shelled, slicedFried garlic, mincedFresh calamansi (lemon), sliced

Extract fat and meat from clean crabs, set aside.

Pound crab and extract juice on 1 1/2 cups of water

On a pan, sauté garlic and onions until golden brown then add crab fat, crab meat, 1 1/2 cups of crab wash, patis and MSG. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add corn starch and continue to simmer while constantly stirring until thick.

Put miki noodles in a strainer and dip in boiling water for 5 minutes or until cooked.

Lay drained noodles on a platter and pour the palabok sauce. Garnish with toppings and serve.

 

Pork Sinigang

this is indeed one of the best pork soups of all time. a dish we could be proud of internationally. when i cook this in Singapore a few years ago, my co-workers really loved it. they say it taste like tom-yum but kinda unique.

Ingredients

3/4 kilo Pork, cut into chunks

3 tomatoes, sliced

2 onions, diced

5 cloves of garlic, minced

100 grams Kangkong (river spinach)

100 grams String beans

2 pieces horse radishes, sliced

3 pieces gabi (taro), pealed

2 pieces sili pag sigang (green finger pepper)

200 grams sampalok (tamarind)

3 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)

  1 liter of rice wash or water

 

Boil sampalok in water until the shell shows cracks. Let cool then peal off the shells and with a strainer, pour samplalok (including water) into a bowl. Gently massage the sampalok meat off the seeds, strain again. In a pot, sauté garlic and onion then add the tomatoes. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Add pork and fish sauce then add the rice wash. Bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes then add the gabi. Continue to simmer for another 15 minutes or until the pork is tender. Add the horse radish and simmer for 10 minutes then add the string beans, kangkong and sili (for spice-optional). Let boil for 2 minutes.Serve piping hot.

Sinigang Cooking Tip:

Instead of sampalok fruit (tamarind), you can substitute it with any commercial souring seasoning like Knorr sampalok seasoning or tamarind bouillon cubes for this pork sinigang recipe

Kare-kare

Ingredients

1 kilo of beef (round or sirloin cut) cut into cubes, beef tripe or oxtail (cut 2 inch long) or a combination of all three (beef, tripe and oxtail)

3 cups of peanut butter

1/4 cup grounded toasted rice

1/2 cup cooked bagoong alamang (anchovies)

2 pieces onions, diced

2 heads of garlic, minced

4 tablespoons atsuete oil

4 pieces eggplant, sliced 1 inch thick

1 bundle Pechay (Bok choy) cut into 2 pieces

1 bundle of sitaw (string beans) cut to 2" long

1 banana bud, cut similar to eggplant slices, blanch in boiling water

1/2 cup oil

8 cups of water

   Salt to taste

In a stock pot, boil beef, tripe and oxtails in water for an hour or until cooked. Strain and keep the stock.

In a big pan or wok, heat oil and atsuete oil.

Sauté garlic, onions until golden brown, then add the stock, toasted rice, beef, oxtail and peanut butter. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Salt to taste.

Add the eggplant, string beans, pechay and banana bud. Cook the vegetables for a few minutes - Do not overcook the vegetables.

Serve with bagoong on the side and hot plain rice.

 

Laing

when we talk about native dishes and exotic food i only knew one person who could make such tasty dishes no other than my Pap. i can still remember when he took gabi leaves and fried them then cook it for dinner. 

Ingredients:


25 pieces gabi (taro) leaves, dried and shredded1/2 kilo pork, diced1/4 cup shrimp bagoong or 1 large head of dried fish or 100 gms dried fish5 cloves garlic, minced2 red onions, chopped2 tablespoons ginger, minced5 jalapeno pepper, sliced1 cup coconut cream (katang gata)2 cups coconut milk (gata)1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG)2 tablespoons of oil1 teaspoon salt

In a casserole, sauté garlic, ginger and onions then add the pork.

mix in the gabi leaves.

Pour in the coconut milk (gata) and bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes.

Add jalapeno, bagoong, salt and MSG and simmer for another 5 minutes.

Add the coconut cream and continue to simmer until oil comes out of the cream.

Serve hot with plain white rice.

rellenong bangus

this is why i loved bangus. this is just one of a kind dish that any people would surely love.

Ingredients

1 big bangus (milkfish)

3 cloves of garlic, minced

1 onion chopped

2 tomatoes, diced

1 egg

1/4 cup lemon juice

1 small carrot, finely chopped

1/4 cup soy sauce

4 tablespoons of cooking oil

ham, finely chopped

raisins

cooked peas

salt and pepper to taste

Scale and remove the intestines of the bangus.

With a very sharp knife, slowly remove the meat of the fish from the skin through the opening cavity below the head. Remove the spine by snapping off the bone at the base of the tail and head. Use a long spoon to scrape all the meat from the skin.

Marinate the head and skin in lemon juice, soy sauce and pepper.

Boil in 1/2 cup of water the bangus meat with some salt for 5 minutes.

Sauté the garlic and onions until slightly brown then add the tomatoes and carrots until tender.

Add the chopped ham, cooked peas, raisins and the bangus meat to the mixture. Cook for an additional 5 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

Add a beaten egg to the sauté and mix well.

Stuff the mixture inside the bangus skin and head. Sew the cavity if needed.

Fry in oil until golden brown.

slice slightly diagonal (1 1/2 inch thick) and serve.