Adobong Talong Recipe

Ingredients :


4 cups eggplants, cut into 2x2 inch pieces
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tbsp garlic, finely minced
cooking spray
black pepper (if desired)
chili pepper flakes


Direction :


Preheat broiler.
Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray oil.
Place the eggplant cubes and spray them with oil.
Broil for 5 minutes until browned, flip them and another 5 minutes.
In a medium pan, bring vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and pepper (if desired) to boil and simmer for 6 minutes.
Add the eggplant and cook for 5 minutes.
Serve hot.

Chinese Ngohiong Recipe

If you are on a tight budget and you want to have a cheap yet satisfying meal go for Ngohiong. This has been my food since school days and until now. I have been travelling from places to places and when I get back to Cebu, the first food I eat and crave so much is the Ngohiong.

Ingredients:

1/2 kl singkamas (jicama), stripped
3 tbsp ngohiong powder
2 tbsp 5 spice powder
1/2 kl ground pork
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
season to taste with salt, pepper, honey and soy sauce
lumpia wrapper

batter after wrapping with lumpia wrapper:
* Mixed 2 cups cornstarch, 5 tbsp paprika/white pepper and 700 grms water
* Stir with fork to remove lumps

Cooking Procedure:

1. Put a little bit of oil then saute garlic and onion. Put  the pork and cook until slightly brown.
2. Put singkamas, ngohiong powder, spice powder and season with salt, pepper, honey and soy sauce. Cook for a minute.
3. Let it cool.
4. After cooling, put 2 tbsp of the mixture in a lumpia wrapper, then roll.
5. Do the same procedure in all lumpia wrapper.
6. Deep in the batter mixture.
7. Deep-fry until golden brown.
8. Then serve with lorbak sauce 

Lorbak Sauce:

2 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 tbsp castor sugar
1/8 tsp Chinese five spice powder (ng heong fun)/ Ngo hiong hun
1/8 tsp salt
4-5 tbsp water
1/2 tsp corn flour or tapioca flour
1 egg white, lightly beaten

Cooking Procedure:

1. Combine all ingredients in a small saucepot.
2. Boil then turn the fire low and simmer for 2 minutes.
3. Stirring occasionally until sauce turns smooth. Add in egg white and stir with a fork to form fine strands.
4. Set aside to cool then use.

BEEF ADOBO SA GATA

Ingredients :

1 kg. beef (kalitiran)
1 cup thick coconut milk
1/2 cup vinegar
2 cups thin coconut milk
12 peppercorns
2 gloves garlic, crushed
1 bay leaf
salt to taste 

Procedure :

1. Cut beef into 2-inch cubes, and place in a pot.
2. Add  the thin coconut milk, garlic, peppercorns, bay leaf, vinegar and salt to taste.

3. Simmer until the beef tender and the liquid almost gone.

4. Add the thick coconut milk, and boil for 10 minutes.

5. Serve. 

Makes 6-8 servings.

Chicken Curry Recipe

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

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.

Bangus Sisig Sizzler Recipe

Sisig is known for being the beer's best friend, the ultimate pulutan. I have been eating sisig countless time and usually it is Pork sisig. And now I have tasted the fish sisig for the first time here in Mindanao and trust me when I say it taste really good. Here is the Recipe I asked from someone in this place.

Ingredients:




800g        Bangus Back Fillet, sliced into small cubes

6 pcs        tofu (tokwa), cut into small cubes

4 pcs        garlic, finely chopped

2 pcs        medium sized onions, coarsely chopped

1 tbsp      oyster sauce

5 pc         each red and green bell pepper, cut into small cubes

5 pcs        finger chill, finely chopped

1              stalks spring onions







Procedure:




In a pan, fry the tofu (tokwa) until golden brown. In the same pan, sauté the garlic and onion, and then add chopped milkfish (bangus). Sauté until half cooked, then add the oyster sauce, pepper and chili. Cook until done. sprinkle with bell peppers, onion and spring onions. Serve on a hot plate.

Pork Chop Suey Recipe

Chopsuey is widely believe to be an  American-Chinese immigrants creation, and not an authentic Chinese dish.The man who invented Chop Suey was a Chinese Man newly in the USA and he got a job as a dishwasher in a Chinese Restarant in San Francisco. As part of his pay he was alloweed to eat the left overs at the end of the day.

After some time had gone, he started chopping up the meat and vegetables left over each day and he added some sauce to them and he called his concoction chop suey. It was not long until customers started smelling the chop suey and asked what the wonderful smell was. And before long every chinese restarant in San Francisco was using their left overs to make chop suey and the customers loved it.

Ingredients :

 

• 1/2 lb. pork, cut into thin strips
• 1 tsp. soy sauce
• 1 tsp. oyster sauce
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 tsp. cornstarch

• 1 to 1-1/2 cup chicken broth (or water)
• 2 tbsp. cornstarch
• 2 tbsp. oyster sauce
• 1/2 tsp. sugar

• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1-1/2 cup baby carrots, halved
• 3 stalks celery, cut diagonally into 1 inch long
• 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 15 to 20 pieces snow peas, trimmed
• 1 can slice mushroom, drained
• 1 can miniature cut cobs of corn, drained

Cooking Procedures :

1. Cut the pork into thin strips. Combine soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper, and cornstarch. Stir to blend and then add the meat. Marinate for 10 to 15 minutes. Set aside.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together broth, cornstarch, oyster sauce and sugar. Stir to blend and then set aside.
3. Heat oil in a wok (or deep skillet) over medium heat. Fry pork for about 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and onion until soft and translucent. Stir in baby carrots for about a minute. Add the rest of the vegetables, stir-frying for a minute or two after each addition.
4. Add the cornstarch mixture. Bring to a boil. Lower the heat and continue stirring until well blended and sauce thickens. Correct seasonings.
5. Immediately remove from heat after heated through. Transfer to a serving platter. Serve hot the chop suey dish.

Beef Kare kare Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 kilo beef shank

* 1 bundle of pechay or bok choy

* 1 bundle of string beans (cut into 2 inch slices)

* 2 pcs eggplants (sliced)

* 1/2 cup peanut butter

* 1/2 cup shrimp paste (bagoong)

* 1 Liter of water

* 1/2 cup annatto seeds (soaked in a cup of water)

* 1 tbsp garlic, minced

* 1 large onion, chopped

* salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

* In a large pot, add water and beef shank then boil for 3 hours or until tender (35 minutes if using a pressure cooker)

* Once the meat is tender, add the peanut butter and coloring (water from the annatto seed mixture) and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes

* On a separate pan, saute the garlic then add the eggplant, and string beans and cook for 3 minutes

* Transfer the cooked vegetables to the large pot (where the rest of the ingredients are)

* Add the Pechay or  bok choy simmer for 2 minutes

* Add salt and pepper to taste

* Serve hot with shrimp paste.