Kare-Kare (Beef Stew with Vegetables and Peanut Sauce)

Kare-Kare is a popular Filipino dish. I am not sure what is the English name for this. The main ingredient is beef and the common cuts of beef used are tail, shank or face. It depends on what you prefer to eat. But now, I am using beef shank and ox tripe. Let the cooking begin.

Yummy

Quickie Post : Fried Tofu w/ Oyster sauce and spring onions (Pritong Tokwa pang pulutan)

Ingredients:

Tofu (tokwa)
Pork (optional)
Oyster Sauce
Spring Onions

Procedure :
Cut tofu into cubes, deep fry. Add oyster sauce and put spring onions on top.

Note: You can also add fried pork and mix with tofu. Good for beer lovers out there. This one is a nice pulutan. :D

Sauted Mongo Bean Sprout with Tofu (Ginsisang Toge w/ Tokwa)

Good day peeps. Today I will share a healthy dish that I cooked. This recipe is so easy that you cannot go wrong when doing it, except for the recipe name. :D

Sauted Mongo Bean Sprout w/ Tofu

Ingredients:

1/4kilo - Mongo Bean Sprout (Toge)

Minced Garlic

Onion Diced

Cooking Oil

Soya sauce (according to taste)

1/2 tsp. Oyster Sauce

Tofu, cut into cubes and fried

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic and the onion.

2. Add Mongo Bean Sprout. Saute for 3 minutes or until lightly cooked.

3. Add Soya sauce and Oyster sauce. Cooked for another 3 to 5 minutes.

4. Add fried tofu.

5. Remove from pan and serve hot.

Chicken Vegetabke Stir-Fry

 If your a person always on the go and looking for a food that so easy to cook and can be done in just 10 minutes here is a dish for you, Chicken Vegetables Stir-Fry. I personally love this dish because I can cooked this without hassle.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp. Vegetable Oil

1/2 kilo Skinless Chicken Breast Fillet, cut into strips

1/2 kilo Frozen Mix Vegetables

1 can Campbell's  Condensed Regular Cream of Chicken Soup

1/3 cup Water

1 tbsp. Soya Sauce

Green Onion, Sliced

Salt and Pepper to taste

Chicken Ginger Stew (Tinolang Manok)

Here's another dish for all of you. Very easy to prepare and so easy to cook, Tinolang Manok. I remember when I was still a kid my grandmother used to cook us this dish using chicken tagalog or native chicken. I am so loving this food specially when rainy season. Enjoy!

Ingredients :

1 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces (or any part you like)

1 cup chicken liver or chicken gizzard (optional)

1 small size ginger, cut into strips

2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 onion, chopped

2 tbsp. fish sauce (patis)

salt and pepper to taste

4 to 5 cups water

2 to 3 cups sayote (you can also use unripe papaya)

1 cup chili leaves (dahong sili)

2 finger chili a.k.a. siling haba (optional)

Procedure :

1. Heat oil in a sauce pan and saute garlic, ginger and onions.

2. Add your chicken and cook for 3 to 5 minutes. Season it with fish sauce then put salt and pepper to taste (depends on your taste).

3. Add water and wait to boil. If the chicken is half done put your sayote (or unripe papaya) and let it simmer until chicken and sayote are tender. Then add finger chili and chili leaves on top of your dish. Cover your pan.

4. Remove heat and stir to combine until well blended. Wait for the green vegetables to cook and transfer to a serving dish and serve while it is hot hot hot. :D

Chicken Mechado

Back from a very long weekend. Back to reality and back to WORK. Done uploading picture for my chicken fritters that I cooked last weekend. I will share another dish that I also cooked last weekend, Chicken Mechado.

Ingredients:

1 kilo Chicken (Adobo cut)

1/4 kilo Gizzard / Balun balunan (optional)

4 pcs. Minced Red Onions (Depends on your taste, you can add more if you like)

1 tbsp. Minced Garlic

4 pcs. Small size Potatoes cut into chunks

1 pc. Carrot, sliced

1 pc. Meduim size Bell Pepper cut into strips

Tomato Sauce

Salt and Pepper

Cooking oil

Chicken Fritters in Barbecue Sauce

 Good day everyone. I don't have work today because I attend an activity last night. So I do have a very long weekend ahead thanks to one offset duty and two days holiday here in Philippines (August 29 National Heroes Day and August 30 End of the Feast of Ramadan a.k.a. EID'L FITR). So I am so excited to go home and relax and enjoy may weekends with my family. 

I'm planning to cook another simple and easy to cook food "Chicken Fritters in Barbecue Sauce". We already try this one and it taste good so i will try this again by myself. 

Ingredients:

For the chicken fritters:

500 grams ground chicken

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 egg, beaten

1/2 cup minced onion

1 tbsp. minced garlic

1 tbsp. liquid seasoning

1/2 tbsp. lemon juice or calamansi juice

1 cup frozen mixed vegetables

oil for frying

For the barbecue sauce:

1 tbsp. butter

1/2 tsp. minced garlic

1 cup bottled barbecue sauce

Procedures:

1. In a bowl, combine the ingredients for the chicken fritters. Mix well. Season with some salt and pepper. Chill for about 15 to 20 minutes for easier handling.

2. Scoop about 3 tbsp. of the mixture and form in a patty. Put on a floured tray and do the same for the rest of the mixture.

3. Heat oil in a pan and fry the fritters until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.

4. For the sauce, heat butter in a pan the saute garlic. Add barbecue sauce and simmer for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, as needed. Serve with chicken fritters.

NOTE: To make crispy fritters, roll the patties in breadcrumbs before frying. The fritters can also used as sandwich filling or made into mini patties and served as appetizer.

I will post pictures later. I hope I can to it right.

sorry for bad picture quality

with rice :D

Sweet and Spicy Chicken with steamed Asian Greens and fried Eggplants

My wife is hoping to buy oven someday. Unfortunately, that someday will take so long. One day, we both try to cook this bake dish featured in Yummy Magazine (August 2010 edition) using oven toaster.

Today I will share to you one simple but classy, taste good and healthy dish. For those who are health conscious, this dish is for you. 

Ingredients:

400 grams Breast Chicken Fillet

¼ cup Honey (we don’t have honey so we use ½ cup of sugar)

2 tbsp. Teriyaki Sauce

1 tbsp. Mustard

2 cloves Garlic, Crushed

1 small Chili, Chopped

Steamed Rice, Steam Asian Greens and Fried Eggplants

Procedure:

Arrange chicken on prepared tray. Combine honey, teriyaki sauce, mustard, garlic and chili in a bowl. Brush half over chicken.

Put chicken on oven toaster and heat for 10 minutes. Turn chicken and brush with the remaining teriyaki mixture and heat for 10 to 15 minutes, until cooked through.

Serve on top with rice and steamed Asian greens and fried eggplants.

Optional:

To prepare the sauce use 2 tbsp. of the marinade and 1 tbsp. teriyaki sauce.

GOOD DAY. ENJOY!

How to cook carbonara

One of my favorite things to do to kill time is by cooking. I am a good cook. It is true, you can ask my wife. She loves to eat anything I cooked. I hope she won't read this. :D

Today I will share to you how to cook Carbonara. There are a lot of ways to cook carbonara. This one I am making is a simple and easy way to cook a carbona spaghetti. Here it is: