Ingredients:
3/4 kilo pork good for stewing
40 g. tamarind soup base
3 small tomatoes
1 medium onion
a bunch of water spinach (kangkong), chopped
a bunch of winged beans, chopped
1 medium size white radish, chopped
a couple of taro root, chopped
5 1/2 cups of water
long green chili, chopped
salt to taste
Directions:
1. Pick the leaves of the water spinach and the soft stem part.
2. Peel and slice the radish diagonally.
3. Slice the winged beans in the same manner.
4. Peel the taro root and slice into half.
5. Slice tomatoes and onion.
6. Boil the pork in water.
7. Season with a little bit of salt and cook until tender.
8. Add in the tamarind soup base, onions and tomatoes.
9. Drop the taro root as it takes quite some time to cook. Let it boil for about 10 minutes.
10. Add in the radish. Cook for roughly about 7 minutes.
11. Add in the winged beans and the stem of the water spinach. Cook till done for a few minutes.
12. The moment the color turns to bright green it should be done.
13. Add lastly the leaves of the water spinach.
14. Boil for 10 seconds.
15. Remove from heat.
Ingredients:
250 to 350 grams pig’s meat (ear, tongue, face)
1 medium sized white onion, sliced
1 medium sized ginger, chopped
Salt and pepper
calamansi or lemon juice
1/2 cup mayonnaise
Directions:
1. Boil pork until half cooked. Strain and grill until brown.
2. Sliced the pork meat into 1″ long and 1/4″ thick (or your desired sizes).
3. Place in a bowl and then add onion, ginger, and lemon or kalamansi juice.
4. Mix well with mayonnaise.
5. Season with salt and pepper according to taste.
Ingredients:
4 medium-sized eggplants
3-4 tomatoes
2-3 white onions
1/2 head of garlic
1/8 c. of rice vinegar
1/4 c. of light soy sauce
1 tsp. of sugar
1-2 chili peppers
1/4 tsp. of grated ginger
Directions:
1. Boil or steam the eggplants until almost mushy. Cool. Cut in half vertically and scrape off the meat with a spoon. Place the scraped meat in a large bowl.
2. Cut the tomatoes into quarters (or into eighths if they are large). Do the same with the onions. Add to the eggplants and toss lightly.
3. Peel and finely mince the garlic.
4. Mix together the light soy sauce, rice vinegar, grated ginger and sugar.
5. Add the minced garlic and the chili peppers.
6. Crush the peppers with a spoon.
7. Pour the dressing over the vegetables and toss.
8. Cover and let stand for at least 30 minutes before serving.
2 Shrimp broth cubes
1 cup rice washings
2 cups squash, cut into cubes
4 medium tomatoes, quartered
1 cup patani (lima beans)
1 1/2 cups malunggay fruit, skinned and sliced 1/4 inch
2 medium eggplants, sliced diagonally
1 piece ampalaya(or bitter melon), sliced diagonally
1 piece bangus, fried or boiled
Directions:
1. Bring to boil first two ingredients.
2. Add squash, tomatoes and patani. Simmer about 5 minutes.
3. Add in the rest of the vegetables; adjust seasonings.
4. Simmer another 3 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
5. Add the fish.
6. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon oil
½ cup minced shallots
1 cup cubed tomatoes
½ pound ground pork
4 cups water
2 cups diced potatoes
Patis or salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Preparations:
1. Saute garlic in oil until brown in color.
2. Add shallots and tomatoes and cook until soft.
3. Add ground beef, pork, patis or salt and pepper to taste.
4. Add water and potatoes.
5. Simmer until done. Best served hot.
Ingredients:
2 medium-size eggplants
2 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1 teaspoon finely minced garlic
1/2 cup finely minced onion
1 pound ground pork or beef
3 ripe tomatoes, chopped
1 cup bread crumbs
3 tablespoons vegetable or corn oil
patis or salt, freshly ground pepper to taste
Preparations:
1. Cut eggplants lengthwise into halves. Broil over heat or charcoal with skin side up until tender.
2. Let cool and scoop out pulp and discard. Reserve skin.
3. Soak skin in beaten eggs.
4. In a skillet, heat oil and saute garlic until brown, onion until transparent.
5. Add pork or beef and cook until brown.
6. Add tomatoes, patis or salt and pepper to taste.
7. Continue stirring mixture until it is not too moist.
8. Remove from heat. Divide stuffing mixture into 4 portions and fill the four eggplants skins with it.
9. Press to make firm and coat each with bread crumbs and beaten eggs.
10. Heat oil and fry eggplants on one side and then the other until golden brown.
Ingredients:
1-1/2 pounds ground pork
2 eggs, beaten
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 cup bread crumbs, soaked in 1/2 cup evaporated milk
3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1 small can liver or tomato paste
2 pepperoni sausages, finely chopped
3 tablespoons minced seedless raisins
Preparations:
1. Mix together all ingredients except the salt and pepper and liver or tomato paste. Roll into a log shape and wrap in aluminum foil. Secure both ends. Bake at 350 F for 1 hour.
2. Unwrap and transfer the pork roll to a platter. In a small pot, boil the broth in which the pork roll was baked. Thicken with liver or tomato paste and season with salt and pepper. Slice pork roll and pour sauce over it.
