Chicken Binagoongan

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. chicken breast
• 2 tbsp. garlic, minced
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 2 medium tomatoes, sliced
• 1/2 cup shrimp paste
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/4 cup vinegar
• 1/2 tsp crush pepper
• 1/2 tbsp. sugar
• cooking oil

Cooking Procedure:

1. Sear the chicken in the cooking pot until slightly brown. Set aside.
2. Heat another cooking pot and pour in the cooking oil.
3. Saute the garlic, onion and tomatoes.
4. Add the seared chicken and stir to blend. 
5. Add the shrimp paste. Stir and cook for 5 minutes.
6. Add the remaining ingredients and cook for 15 minutes more or until the liquid is reduced.
7. Serve and enjoy!

Adobong Atay

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 2 pieces bay leaves
• ½ kilo chicken liver
• 1 tsp whole peppercorn
• ½ cup soy sauce
• ¼ cup vinegar

Cooking Procedure:

1. Heat cooking pot, add the cooking oil and sauté the garlic and onion.
2. Add the atay ng manok and stir fry for 2 minutes.
3. Put the bay leaves, peppercorns, soy sauce and vinegar. Cover the cooking pot. Let it boil.  Do not stir. Simmer for 5 minutes until vinegar is cooked.
4. Stir and then let it simmer for 3 minutes or until the chicken liver is cooked.
5. Serve and enjoy!

Ginisang Munggo with Dilis

Ingredients:

• 1 lb mung beans (munggo)
• 1 piece beef cube (for flavoring)
• 1 tbsp. garlic,minced
• 1 medium onion,chopped
• 1 medium tomato,chopped
• 1/4 kilo chicken (cut into small pieces)
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• 1/4 kilo fried dilis
• 1 cup spinach
• water
• pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. In a cooking pot, put-in the water and bring to a boil.
2.  Put-in the beef cube and Mung bean and simmer until the Mung Bean is soft enough (about 35 to 50 minutes)
3. On a separate cooking pot, sauté the garlic, onion and tomato.
4. Add the chicken and simmer for 5 minutes.
5. Put-in the fish sauce and simmer for 3 minutes.
6. Pour the cooked Mung beans and simmer for 10 minutes.
7. Add the spinach, fried dilis and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes. Note: No need to add salt because fried dilis is already salty.
8. Serve and enjoy!

Biko

Ingredients:

• 2 cups glutinous rice
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 cups coconut milk
• 1/2 tsp. salt

Cooking Procedure:

1. Combine the sticky rice and water in a rice cooker and cook until the rice is ready.
2. While the rice is cooking, combine the coconut milk with brown sugar and salt in a separate pot and cook in low heat until the texture becomes thick. Stir constantly.
3. Once the rice is cooked and the coconut milk-sugar mixture is thick enough, add the cooked rice in the coconut milk and sugar mixture then mix well. Continue cooking until all the liquid evaporates (but do not overcook).
4. Serve and enjoy!

Ham Fetuccine

Ingredients:

•  1 lb. fettuccine, cooked according to package instructions
• 1 tbsp. butter
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 medium chopped onion
• 4 pcs. ham
• 1 can cream of mushroom
• 1 pack of all purpose cream
• 1 can of button mushroom
• 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
• salt & pepper to taste

Cooking Procedure:

1. Cook the fettuccine according to package instructions
2. Heat a saucepan or cooking pot and saute garlic and onion in butter
3. Add the ham and stir fry for 3 minutes.
4. Add the button mushroom and let it cook for 2 minutes.
5. Add the cream of mushroom and all purpose cream. Mix well.
6. Add the cheddar cheese. Stir continuously until cheese melts and the texture of the mixture becomes fine.
7. Season with salt and pepper
8. Add the cooked fettuccine and toss until the noodles are well covered with sauce.
9. Serve and enjoy!

Adobong Sitaw

Adobong Sitaw

Ingredients:

• 1 lb string beans (sitaw), cut in 2 inch length
• 1/4 kilo ground chicken
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup vinegar
• 1 medium-sized onion, thinly sliced lengthwise
• 4 to 6 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 cup water

 
 Cooking Procedure:

1. Heat a cooking pot and pour in the oil. 
2. Saute garlic and onions then cook for 2 minutes.
3. Add the ground chicken and cook for 5 minutes. 
4. Pour-in the soy sauce, vinegar, and water then bring to a boil.
5. Shake-in the ground black pepper and stir.
6. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
7. Add the string beans and cook for 5 minutes.
8. Serve and enjoy!

Ginataang Manok

Ginataang Manok

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kilo chicken breast, cut into serving pieces
•  2 tbsp. cooking oil
• 2 tbsp. garlic, minced
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 tbs. ginger, julienned
• 2 cups coconut milk (extracted from grated mature coconut)
• 1/2 tsp. paprika
• 4 pieces siling labuyo ( 2 pcs. were chopped)
• 1 pc. green papaya
• 1/2 bunch of spinach
• salt and pepper to taste

Cooking Procedure:

1. Heat the cooking pot and pour-in the cooking oil.
2. Sauté the garlic, onion, and ginger.
3.  Add the chicken and cook until the color of the outer part turns light brown.
4. Pour-in the coconut milk while stirring and bring to a boil.
5. Sprinkle some paprika then simmer for 30 minutes or until the chicken is tender and the coconut milk becomes thick.
6. Add the siling labuyo then simmer for 5 minutes.
7. Add the green papaya then simmer for 5 to 8 minutes.
8.  Put-in the spinach, salt, and pepper then simmer for 3 minutes.
9. Serve and enjoy!

Beef Stew/Nilagang Baka

Beef Stew/Nilagang Baka

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo beef chunks
• 2 large onions, peeled and halved
• 10-12 whole peppercorns
• 1 liter water
• 1 spring onion
• 2 pieces carrots
• 1 pechay
• 1 bundle of string beans or sitaw
• salt

Cooking procedure:

1.  Put beef and water in a cooking pot. Bring to a boil until scum comes out. Remove the scum.
2. Add the onion, peppercorns and salt. Cook until beef is tender. About one and a half hour or even longer.
3. If meat is already tender, add the carrots. Simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Add the string beans and spring onion. Simmer for 3 minutes.
5. Add the pechay. Season with salt. Simmer for another 2 minutes
6. Serve and enjoy!

Sauteed Radish

Sauteed Radish

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
•  4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 medium size onion, chopped
• 1 large tomato, chopped
• 1/4 kilo ground chicken
• 3 medium size radish, cut into strips
• 2 medium size carrots, cut into strips
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• salt &  pepper to taste

Cooking Procedure:

1. Heat a cooking pot and put in the oil. 
2. Sauté garlic, onion and tomato. 
3. Add ground chicken. Stir fry for 3 minutes. 
4. Add in patis and pepper and cook for another 3 minutes.
5. Add the radish and carrots and cook for 5 to 8 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked.
6. Correct saltiness if required
7. Serve and enjoy!

Sauteed Eggplant

Sauteed Eggplant

Ingredients:

• 3 eggplant, sliced lengthwise and cut in 1-inch pieces 
• 2 beaten eggs 
• 4 cloves of minced garlic
• 1 sliced onion
• 1 spring onions (separate the white and green part)
• 1 chopped tomato
• 1 bell pepper, julienne 
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• salt and pepper (optional)
• 1 tbsp cooking oil

Cooking Procedure:

1.  Heat a cooking pot and put in the oil.
2. Saute garlic and onion. 
3. Add the white part of the spring onion and bell pepper.Stir-fry for 3 minutes.
4. Add the eggplant and the green part of the spring onion. Stir and cover for 5 minutes.
5. Add soy sauce and pepper. Stir. Cover and cook for another minute. 
6. Add the eggs and mix it with the other ingredients. 
7. Serve and enjoy!

Sardines Spaghetti

Sardines Spaghetti

Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 3 gloves of minced garlic
• 1 medium chopped onion
• 2 cans of sardines in tomato sauce
• spaghetti noodles

Cooking Procedure:

1.  Cook the spaghetti noodles according to package instructions.
2. Open the can of sardines and mash the fish meat
3. Heat the cooking pot and put in the olive oil.
4. Saute garlic and onion
5.  Put in the sardines. Simmer for 5 minutes.
6. Add the cooked spaghetti and toss until the noodles are well covered with sauce.
7.  Serve and enjoy!

Buffalo Chicken Wings

 Ingredients:

• 12 pieces chicken wings
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/3 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 5 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons hot sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 4 cups cooking oil  

 Cooking Procedure:

1. Combine flour, chili powder, salt, and paprika in a mixing bowl. Mix well.
2. Put the chicken in the mixing bowl and coat with the flour mixture.
3. Heat a cooking pot and pour-in cooking oil.
4. Deep fry the chicken wings until golden brown. Set aside.
5. Melt the butter in a sauce pan.
6. Put-in hot sauce, ground black pepper, and garlic powder. Stir.
7. Pour-in the butter mixture over the fried chicken wings. Mix to distribute the sauce evenly.
8. Serve and enjoy!