Showing posts with label Filipino Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Filipino Food. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

Ginataang Mungo (Mungbean in coconut milk)





Ingredients
   2 - 3 Garlic
   1 large Onion
   1 thumb sized Ginger
   2 large ripe Tomatoes
   2/3 cups Mung beans
   200g Anchovies
   50g Pork
   1 1/2 large can Coconut Milk
   Salt
   Pepper
   2 - 3 tbsp Oil

Equipment:
1)  Cleaver
2)  Wok
3)  chopping board


Preparation:
1)  Finely mince garlic
2)  Finely mince ginger
3)  Slice tomatoes
4)  Slice onions
9)  Slice pork (separate lean meat from the fat and skin)
       a)  Chop pork fat with skin into cubes;  salt pork fat cubes
       b)  Slice lean component into thin strips
10)  Soak Mungbean overnight in 1.5 cup water
11)  Cook mungbean in microwave for 15 minutes or on the stove till mungbean is relatively soft


Procedure:
1)  Place pork fat in Wok add water
2)  Allow the pork to produce oil
3)  removed browned pork fat and set aside
4)  If required add oil in the wok
5)  Sautee garlic and ginger in the wok
6)  Add onion and sautee till translucent
7)  Add tomatoes and simmer to form sauce
8)  Add browned pork fat and lean pork pieces
9)  Add fried anchovies
10)  Add some of the water from the mungbean
11)  Simmer
12)  Add salt
13)  Add Cooked mung bean
14)  Simmer
15)  Ad coconut milk
16)  Simmer
17)  Taste and season with salt and pepper



Saturday, October 9, 2010

Lechon Paksiw




Ingredients:
   1 - 2 kilos Lechon (crispy roast pork)Pork
   2 - 3 cloves of garlic
   3 - 5 bay leaves
   1/2 tsp blackpepper
   1/3 c Vinegar
   1 tbsp salt or 1/2 cup of soy sauce
   Lechon spice filling (traditional filipino lechon involves the stuffing of spices in the tummy of the pig)



Equipment
1)  clay pot
2)  cleaver
3)  chopping board

Procedure:
1)  Chop lechon into cubes
2)  Place lechon in the pot
5)  Crush Garlic
6)  Add Garlic with skin into the pot
7)  Add Bay Leaf into the pot
8)  Add Salt (1 tbstp per kilo or less) in pot
9)  Add Vinegar in pot
10)  Add lechon spices in the pot
10)  Cook at low heat 
11)  Simmer till lechon is tender

Pork Adobo



Ingredients:
   1 - 2 kilos Pork (with skin and fat)
   2 - 3 cloves of garlic
   3 - 5 bay leaves
   1/2 tsp blackpepper
   1/2 c Soy Sauce
   1/3 c Vinegar

Equipment
1)  clay pot
2)  cleaver
3)  chopping board


Procedure:
1)  Wash pork thoroughly
2)  Chop pork into cubes
3)  Place pork in the clay pot
4)  Crush Garlic
5)  Add Garlic with skin into the clay pot
6)  Add Bay Leaf into the clay pot
7)  Add Soy Sauce in clay pot
8)  Add Vinegar in clay pot
9)  Cook at low heat
10)  Simmer till pork is tender