Friday, February 27, 2009

Adobong Kangkong (River Spinach) Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 25 minutes

Adobong Kangkong Ingredients:

  • 1 big bowl of kangkong (river spinach)

  • 1/4 kilo of pork, cut into small pieces

  • 1/4 cup of vinegar

  • 1/4 cup soy sauce

  • 5 cloves of garlic, minced

  • 1 onion, diced

  • 2 laurel leaves (bay leaves)

  • 1/2 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate (MSG)

  • 1 cup pork stock (broth) or bouillon pork cube dissolved in water

  • Salt and pepper to taste

Adobong Kangkong Cooking Instructions:

  • Sauté garlic and onions in a big pan then add the pork. Allow the pork to brown and oil for a few minutes.

  • Add a cup of pork stock (or bouillon cube dissolved in water or plain water), laurel leaves, soy sauce, some salt and bring to a boil.

  • Let simmer then add the vinegar. Do not stir for 5 minutes.

  • Add the kangkong stalks first and cook for 1 minute then add the kangkong leaves. Continue cooking until the vegetable is done.

  • Serve hot with rice.

Cooking Note:

Instead of kangkong, this recipe can be used to cook other vegetables like eggplant, spinach, cabbage, string beans or any other vegetable.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

CHICKEN BARBEQUE

Chicken Barbeque Recipe | Chicken Recipe

Estimated cooking time excluding preparation: 30-45 mins.

Chicken Barbeque Ingredients:

  • 1 kilo chicken (whole or cut in pieces)

  • 1 cup soy sauce

  • 1 head garlic, minced

  • 1 onion, finely chopped

  • 3 tablespoons of calamansi juice or lemon juice

  • 1/2 cup of sprite, 7up or beer

  • 2 cups of tanglad (lemon grass) for whole chicken

  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

  • 3 tablespoons of brown or white sugar

Chicken Barbeque Preparation & Cooking Instructions:

  • Marinate the chicken in soy sauce, calamansi juice (or lemon juice), minced garlic, chopped onions, soda or beer, sugar and pepper.

  • Marinate in the refrigerator for 1 to 3 hours.

  • Stuff the chicken cavity with tanglad (lemon grass) if to be grilled whole.

  • Cook chicken on grill or in oven until golden brown

Cooking Notes:

  • To barbeque chicken that are cut into pieces, follow the same procedure above but omit stuffing the leg with lemon grass. Thread the chicken pieces on barbeque skewers and grill on live charcoal until cooked.

  • To check if the meat is cooked, slice a small piece of meat off and if there are no juice running off the meat and there no reddish (blood) areas on the inside of the meat, the chicken is cooked.

  • Enjoy this delicious chicken recipe with family and friends!

CHICKEN AFRITADA

Chicken Afritada Recipe | Chicken Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 50 minutes

Chicken Afritada Ingredients:

  • 1 kilo chicken, cut into pieces

  • 5 pieces potatoes, peeled and halved

  • 1 red onion, diced

  • 1 head garlic, minced

  • 1 green bell pepper, sliced into strips

  • 1 red bell pepper, sliced into strips

  • 2 cups pork or chicken stock (broth)

  • 1 cup tomato sauce

  • 2 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)

  • 3 tablespoons of cooking oil

Chicken Afritada Cooking Instructions:

  • In a cooking pot or wok, heat oil.

  • Sauté garlic and onions.

  • Add chicken and slightly brown.

  • Pour the tomato sauce and stock. Bring to a boil and allow to simmer for 20 minutes or until the chicken is almost cooked.

  • Add potatoes and continue to cook for 10 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked.

  • Add the green and red bell peppers, simmer for an additional minute or two.

  • Salt and pepper to taste

  • Serve this chicken recipe hot with steamed rice.

TINOLANG MANOK

Tinolang Manok (Chicken Ginger Stew) Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 45 minutes

Tinola Manok Ingredients:

  • 1 kilo whole chicken, cut into pieces.

  • 1 small young papaya or sayote, cut into small pieces.

  • 2 tablespoons ginger, crushed and slliced into strips

  • 1/2 cup dahon ng sili (chili leaves) or mallunggay leaves

  • 1 liter of water

  • 5 garlic cloves, minced

  • 1 red onion, diced

  • 4 tablespoons oil

  • 2 tablespoons patis (fish sauce)

Tinolang Manok Cooking Instructions:

  • In a stock pot, heat oil and sauté garlic, onion and ginger.

  • Add water and the chicken.

  • Bring to a boil and simmer for about 20 minutes or until chicken is almost done.

  • Season with patis

  • Add papaya and continue to simmer for an additional 5 minutes or until papaya softens but not overcooked.

  • Add sili leaves then turn off the heat.

  • Serve steaming hot on a bowl with plain rice on the side.

CHICKEN POTATO SALAD

Filipino Chicken Potato Salad Recipe

Estimated cooking & preparation time: 1 hour

Chicken Potato Salad Ingredients:

  • 1 kilo potatoes

  • 1 big chicken breast

  • 3 pieces medium sized carrots

  • 500 ml mayonnaise

  • 1 can (836 g) pineapple tidbits or chunks

  • 1/2 cup sweet pickle relish

  • 1 cup cheddar cheese, diced (optional)

  • 3 tablespoons of chopped spring onions (optional)

  • Iodized salt to taste (pepper, optional)

Chicken Potato Salad Cooking Instructions:

  • In a big pot, boil potatoes and carrots (covered with water) for about 15 to 20 minutes or until cracks on the potato skin appears. (tip: pierce a potato with a toothpick. If you can pierce it with little resistance and the toothpick comes out clean, the potatoes & carrots are cooked).

  • Drain potatoes and carrots, let cool.

  • Once cooled, the skin can be easily be pealed by hand.

  • Dice the potatoes and carrots (about 1x1 cm)

  • Boil the chicken breast in water with some salt. Let cool, then shred the chicken meat in 1 inch lengths

  • Drain pineapple chunks or tidbits.

  • Combine all ingredients (potatoes, chicken meat, pineapple, carrots, pickle relish, mayonnaise...) in a big bowl and salt to taste. You may add pepper if you wish.

  • Refrigerate before serving.

Potato Salad Cooking Notes:

  • You may add the optional ingredients (diced cheese, chopped onions, spring onions) or a handful of raisins for added flavour.

RELLENONG MANOK

Rellenong Manok Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 2 hours

Rellenong Manok Ingredients:

  • 1 whole chicken, deboned with shape kept

  • 2 tablespoons calamansi juice

  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce

  • 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar

    Stuffing

  • 1/2 kilo ground pork

  • 1/2 cup bacon, diced

  • 1 cup ham, diced

  • 1 can Vienna sausage, drained and sliced

  • 1/4 cup sweet green peas

  • 1/4 cup carrots, minced

  • 1/4 cup breadcrumbs

  • 1/4 cup pickle relish

  • 1/4 cup raisins

  • 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated

  • 5 whole eggs, beaten

  • 1/2 cup butter

  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce

  • 1 tablespoon sugar

  • Salt and pepper to taste

Rellenong Manok Cooking Instructions:

  • Marinate chicken in calamansi juice, soy sauce and sugar.

  • In a bowl, mix all stuffing ingredients well.

  • Stuff the chicken in all parts.

  • Sew the cavity opening and truss the chicken.

  • Wrap chicken in aluminium foil.

  • Heat oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake breast-up for an hour or until chicken is cooked.

  • Open the foil an rub chicken with butter and put back in oven until golden brown.

ROASTED CHICKEN

Roasted Chicken Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 1 1/2 to 2 hours

Roasted Chicken Ingredients:

  • 2 kilo dressed chicken (broiler)

  • 2 cups of lemon grass (tanlad)

  • 3 tablespoons of cooking oil

  • 2 tablespoons of salt

Cooking Instructions:

  • Make sure the chicken is clean with no remaining small feathers and no insides.

  • Wash thoroughly and pat dry with a paper towel

  • Rub the whole chicken with cooking oil as well as the inside cavity.

  • Next apply salt all over, again, including the insides.

  • Fill the cavity with lemon grass

  • Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit

  • Place the chicken on an oven rotisserie.

  • If you don't have a rotisserie put the chicken on an elevated rack on a baking pan - breast side up (so the bottom of the chicken does not touch the baking pan).

  • Bake for 1 hour or until the chicken is golden brown. When you prick between the chicken thigh and body and the juice runs clear (not bloody) the chicken is done.

  • Serve with mashed potatoes, rice or corn on the side.

Roasted Chicken Cooking Note:

  • If baking at 325 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the oven.

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