Chopsuey with Prawn

You love vegetables? Then you are surely a chopsuey fanatic! A very flexible dish - it can be as extravagant with quail eggs and chicken liver on it, or it can be so simple with purely no-meat on it. I opted to cook it with prawn.



Ingredients:
Garlic
Onions
Cauliflower
Chukos (sayote)
Carrots
Cabbage
Prawn
Chicken broth
Soysauce



Procedure:
1. Stir-fry garlic and onions.
2. Add the cauliflower, chukos, carrots and prawns.
3. Pour the chicken broth and add soysauce and salt according to taste.
4. Add the cabbage and simmer for another 5 minutes.


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Gambas Aglio

A very famous appetizer, Gambas Aglio can be a main dish/ viand also. Best served sizzling and spicy.



Ingredients:
Prawns
Garlic (lots of it!)
Ginger
Tomato sauce
Tabasco or chili power




Procedure:
1. Stir-fry minced garlic and ginger.
2. Once garlic and ginger turned brown, add the prawns and continue stirring.
3. Pour little amount of tomato sauce.
4. Add tabasco or chili power and salt according to taste.


Perfect with hot steaming rice and beer. =)

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Chicken Afritada

Another all-time Filipino favorite. I decided to prepare this dish for my weekday office lunchbox.



Ingredients:
Garlic
Onions
Cubed potatoes
Cubed carrots
Chicken cutlets
Tomato sauce




Procedure:
1. Saute garlic and onions.
2. Add the chicken, put the carrots and potatoes once meat is tender.
3. Pour the tomato sauce and put it to boil.
4. Add little soysauce, pepper and salt according to taste.
5. Simmer for another 5 minutes before serving.


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Eggplant Omelette (Tortang Talong)

With tomato or banana catsup dipping, eggplant omelette or tortang talong in tagalog is a nice budget-friendly viand good for either breakfast, lunch or dinner.



Ingredients:
Medium-sized eggplants
Beaten eggs



Procedure:
1. Grill or boil the eggplants, remove the skin.
2. Soak the eggplants on beaten eggs (don't forget to put salt on the eggs)
3. Make sure the oil is very hot before frying the omelette.
4. Topped with tomato or banana catsup before serving


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Menudocillo

While menudo is pork cooked in tomato sauce, menudocillo is minced pork cooked in tomato sauce. A classic filipino dish - you can find this dish being served on major festive celebration. Moreso, I bet that menudo/meducillo is present at any filipino family dining table at least once a week.

Ingredients:

Garlic

Onion

Diced carrots

Diced potatoes

Minced pork

Tomato Sauce

Sliced hotdogs (optional)

Salt and pepper

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic and onions.

2. Put minced pork and hotdog (optional), stir until tender.

3. Add diced carrots and diced potatoes.

4. Pour tomato sauce and put to boil.

5. Season with salt and pepper according to taste.

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Chicken in Baked Beans

This is one of my mom's very own original recipe. I remember her preparing this dish for us even our early schooling days. Would you believe that even my son love this meal also?

Ingredients:

Garlic

Onions

Baked beans

Chicken cutlets

Salt

Procedure:
1. Saute garlic and onions.

2. Put chicken and stir until tender.

3. Pour 1 can of baked beans and bring to boil.

4. Sprinkle with salt according to taste and simmer for another 5 minutes.

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Tilapia in Coconut Cream

Not everyday you find black tiplaia in NTUC Fairprice (as red tilapia is more common here in Singapore). So i decided to buy one at 59cents per 100grams and call my mom.

Me: ma, what to do with black tilapia?
Mama: either ginataan or pesa.
Me: let me try ginataan. teach me how.

Ginataang tilapia is fish in cocount cream. In Philippines, we also use other fishes like "tulingan" and/or "tambakol". Perfect partner with rice and fish sauce.



Ingredients:
Onion
Ginger
Green Chili
Tilapia Fish
Coconut Cream
Salt to taste



Procedure:
1. Pour coconut cream, little amount of water, onions and ginger - let it boil.
2. Add the tilapia fish when boiling.
3. Put geen chili and salt to taste. Simmer until fish is cook.

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