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Native Pickles

Thursday May 1, 2008
  • 1 cup green papaya, sliced in strips
  • 1 green pepper, sliced in strips
  • 1 small carrot, sliced in strips
  • 1 small ginger, cut in strips
  • 1 bunch native onion, cut 2 inches long
  • 2 cups pineapple vinegar
  • 1 cup sugar
  • Salt to taste

Blanch all vegetables. Drain and put in a bowl. In a pan combine vinegar, sugar, salt, ginger. Boil, then pout vegetables and cool. Put in a jar, and store until it is needed.




Mango Chutney

Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
  • 10 large green magoes
  • 1 cup seeded raisins
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons white mustard seed
  • 2 chili peppers
  • 2 cloves garlic, pounded
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • 1 medium grated onion
  • 1 cup lime juice

Combine sliced mangoes and other ingredients. Cover and let stand overnight. Simmer 3 hours, slowly stirring so as not to scorch.

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Egg Noodles

Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 egg shell cold water
  • 1 cup flour

Break the egg into a cup, add the half shell of water and the salt and mix lightly. Shift 2/3 cup of the flour into the bowl, make a hollow in the center and pour in the egg mixture. Stir with a knife in one direction, adding flour until the dough is so stiff that stirring is difficult. Turn onto a floured board and knead until smooth and elastic. The roll out as thin as possible, turning the dough to prevent its sticking to the board.

Flour the board lightly and let the dough stand 1/2 hour dry. Cut the dough into halves, roll each piece like a jelly roll, then slice as thin as desired. Shake the slices apart. Let noodles dry. To cook, drop the noodles into boiling soup or stew, and boil for 10 minutes. Or drop them few at a time into hot fat and quickly fry them until brown and crisp, then drain on paper.


Baked Bananas

Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
  • 4 firm bananas
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons margarine

Peel bananas. Place in shallow greased baking dish. Sprinkle with sugar and salt; dot with butter. Bake in moderately hot oven for 15 minutes. Serve immediately.


Menudo

Friday Apr 25, 2008
  • 1 cup diced liver
  • 2 1/2 cups diced pork
  • 3 diced potatoes
  • 1/3 cup boiled garbanzos
  • 3 medium sized tomatoes
  • 3 segments garlic, pounded
  • 1 medium onion, sliced
  • 1/2 cup water in which pork was cooked.
  • 1/2 tsp. pimenton
  • Shortening
  • Salt to taste

Cook pork in water to cover until tender. Dice.

Saute garlic, onion and tomatoes in shortening. Add pork and liver and continue sauteing for 5 minutes. Add water and salt and pimenton (to color).

Add potatoes and cooked garbanzos. Cook until potatoes are done.


Mechado

Friday Apr 25, 2008
  • 1 kilo beef, lean
  • 4 big onions, whole
  • 1/2 cup vinegar
  • Strips of pork fat
  • 1 can tomato sauce (small)
  • 6 potatoes, cut in halves
  • 1/2 laurel leaf
  • 1/2 cup fat
  • 1 tbsp. pimenton
  • Salt to taste

Insert fat strips lengthwise in beef. In a deep pot or pan, place the meat, laurel, tomato sauce, vinegar, salt to taste and water to cover. Cover and simmer until tender,. Add potatoes, onions and pimenton and continue cooking. When most of the broth has evaporated and potatoes are cooked, add the fat and stir well. Serve meat sliced crosswise.


Meat Balls with Sotanghon

Friday Apr 25, 2008
  • 1/2 cup ground pork
  • 2 tbsps. chopped onion
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsps. flour
  • 1 tsp. pepper
  • 2 segments garlic, minced
  • 2 tbsps onion, sliced
  • 2 cups meat or chicken broth
  • 1/2 cup soaked “sotanghon”
  • 2 tsps. soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup green onion, cut fine
  • 1 tbsp. lard

Combine the first six ingredients together; form into balls about one inch in diameter. Saute garlic in lard, add onion and broth. Boil. While boiling drop meat balls one by one. Cook until meat is almost done, add the “sotanghon” and cook about five minutes longer. Season with soy sauce and pepper. Pour into a soup tureen or bowl. Sprinkle with sliced green onions and serve hot.


Lumpia with Peanuts

Friday Apr 25, 2008
  • 1/4 kilo pork
  • 1/2 cup shrimps (shelled)
  • 1/2 head small cabbage (cut fine)
  • 1 small onion sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic chopped fine
  • 1 cup ground peanuts
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 small bundle kinchay
  • 2 medium-sized carrots (diced)
  • 2 medium-sized yellow camote (diced)
  • 1 cup habichuelas (sliced)
  • 3 tablespoons lard
  • 1 cup shrimp juice from pounded shells and heads of shrimps
  • 2 squares tokwa (diced)
  • lumpia wrappers
  • lettuce leaves

Extract the fat fom the pork. Saute garlic, onion, and tokwa. Add the pork, shrimp, then shrimp juice. Simmer and then add habichuelas, carrots, cabbage, and yellow camote. Season with soy sauce and cook until done. Set aside in a platter to cool. Add kinchay, sprinkle half of the amount of ground peanuts and wrap in indiviadual wrappers with lettuce. Before closing each wrapper sprinkle about 1 teaspoon more of peanuts into each. Wrap and serve with lumpia sauce.


Escabeche Macao Style

Thursday Apr 24, 2008
  • 1 medium-sized fish (lapu-lapu)
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 large red sweet pepper, cut into long, narrow pieces
  • 2 sections garlic, cut into small pieces
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 2 cups water or white stock
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • 3 tablespoons toyo sauce
  • 2 fair-sized Irish potatoes, cut in very narrow strips 1-1 1/2 incehs long

Clean the fish, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Let stand 10 minutes. Drain and dry. Fry in lard until brown and set aside.

Fry the garlic, onion, and sweet pepper in lard.

Make a medium-thick gravy from mixture of water, vinegar, sugar, toyo and flour; add the fried garlic, onion, sweet pepper, and fish; boil 5 minutes.

Place the fish on a platter, pour the gravy over it, and garnish with the potatoes (fried crisp).


Fish Croquettes

Thursday Apr 24, 2008
  • 1 cup flaked fish
  • 2 sections garlic, finely chopped
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1-1/2 tablespoons salt
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons chopped green onions
  • 10 small potatoes boiled, peeled, and mashed
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 tablespoons bread crumbs
  • 1 pinch black pepper

Fry the garlic and onion in the 2 tablespoons of lard. Add the fish, salt, and black pepper, and fry for 5 minutes. Add the mashed potatoes and milk and cook until the mixture is almost dry, then add the butter and green onion and mix well. Shape into oval croquettes. Roll in lightly beaten eggs and then in bread crumbs. Roll again in the eggs and bread crumbs and fry in hot lard until lard until brown.