Patatim

Patatim’s main ingredients are similar to Adobo except that some includes Banana blossoms. To be honest, I don’t know the difference between having it and not having it. Since that ingredient is rare to find, I cooked it without it. Others use Pork Braised Legs and some are hind legs. For this particular moment, I used hind legs.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup of vinegar

2 Pork bouillon cubes

2 pcs small pork hind legs, cut into 1 1/2 inch thick

1 tbsp cornstarch

Fish sauce

5 pcs bay leaves

1 tsp ground pepper (you can also use peppercorn)

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1 whole garlic, minced

1 whole onion, minced

Cooking procedure:

1. Boil the pork hind legs, when almost tender set aside.

2. In a casserole, sauté minced garlic and onions with the oil.

3. Add fish sauce, then pork leg and the rest of the ingredients.

4. Bring to a boil and slowly simmer for half an hour or until tender.

Voila! Simple way to cook patatim.

4th Pinoy Expat Blog Awards: Best Food Blog Winner

Pinoy Expat Blog Awards has recognized Pinoy Food Recipe Blog as the winner of Best Food Blog in their "Any Blogger Anywhere" Category.  This is the 4th year that the officials behind this award giving bodies been recognizing blogs of Filipino Expats all over the world.



Whatever happened during the awarding night, the important thing is that this blog has been recognized and will be the starting point to make it better.



Once again, thank you.

Ginataang Sitaw with Pork (String Beans Cooked in Coconut Milk)

What else can't be cooked with coconut milk? Majority of the vegetables in the Philippines can be used as an ingredient to a sumptuous meal with a coconut milk. You can also cook Pork, Chicken and seafood’s. This time, let me show you how to cook Ginataang Sitaw. If you search online, there are lots of English translations of "Sitaw", some calls it Green Beans, Long Green Beans, Long Beans, etc...

Ingredients:

- 1/4 Kilo of Sitaw (cut at least 2 inches in length)

- 1/2 Kilo of Pork Belly or Liempo (cut into cubes)

- 1/4 Kilo of Shrimps (Shelled)

- Onions

- Garlic

- Green Chili (Chopped)

- Cooking Oil

- Ginger

- Fish Sauce, Salt and Pepper

- Shrimp Paste

- Coconut Milk (Powdered or Canned)

- 1 cup of water

Cooking Procedure:

- In a pan, pour the cooking oil, sauté' garlic and onions.

- Add the ginger. After few minutes of sautéing, pour fish sauce. There's no exact measurement of the fish sauce or salt and pepper, it depends on how you like the taste.

- After pouring the fish sauce, add shrimp paste until it's cooked, unless the shrimp paste was already cooked or sautéed'.

- Now you can add the pork and cook it until its tender.

- When pork is tender enough, add shrimps and the chopped green chili’s.

- Sauté it for a minute and pour the mixture of one cup of water and the powdered coconut milk or in can.

- Once it boiled, pour the long beans or sitaw and cook it until it's half cooked. Or you can cook it very well.



Remember, this recipe is just a guideline to cook but the outcome of your cooking will always be your decision.



Do not be scared of experimenting different ingredients.



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Chicken Binagoongan (Chicken Cooked in Shrimp Paste)





I’m kind of tired of the food that we usually eat at the Dining Facility and thought of cooking Tinola. Instead, I cooked this dish that is usually cooked with Pork and is called Pork Binagoongan. This time is Chicken Binagoongan.

Here’s the recipe and how to cook this Chicken Binagoongan.

Ingredients:



1 whole chicken (cut in single portion)



1 cup of bagoong alamang (Shrimp Paste)



1 head of garlic (minced)



2 big onions (sliced)



4 tomatoes (diced)



Fish Sauce



Cooking oil



4 chili peppers (minced) or according to taste



¼ cup vinegar

4 tablespoons brown sugar

Cooking procedure: 1. In a casserole, put cooking oil and sauté garlic, onions, tomatoes and chillis. Add fish sauce and chicken.



2. When chicken is tender, add bagoong/shrimp paste and cook for 5 minutes.



3. Pour in the vinegar and stir well, add the sugar and let it simmer for few minutes until it's cooked.



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Seaweeds Salad With Salted Eggs

This is my first time to prepare Seaweeds salad.  It's kind of an experimental on my part but I was impressed, it did turn out well.

Ingredients:

- half kilo of seaweeds

- tomatoes

- onions

- 4 salted eggs, sliced

- half cup of white vinegar

- salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

- boil water and dip seaweeds to remove the slimy part and the saltiness.  I dipped the seaweeds about 10 minutes.

- cut tomatoes, onions.

- put the seaweeds, onions, tomatoes into a salad bowl and toss it with vinegar, salt and pepper.

- lastly, top it up with the sliced salted eggs.

This is how I've done it, others may have different way to do it. Try to experiment, that is the time you will learn about cooking.

Ginisang Bunga ng Malunggay

Moringa or better known in Philippines as Malunggay is famous for its leaves that is a characteristic ingredient in Tinola.  Not only it has a distinct taste but have the calcium equivalent of 4 glasses of milk, the vitamin C content of 7 oranges, potassium of 3 bananas, 3 times the iron of spinach, 4 times the amount of vitamin A in carrot, and 2 times the protein in milk.  

But this time, we are going to talk about Moringga Fruit or Bunga ng Malunggay.  It is as simple as cooking Pinakbet, all you have to do is the following.

Ingredients:

2 handfull of Moringga Fruit

1 can of any sardines with tomatoe sauce

onions and garlic

tomatoes chopped

okra

eggplant

cabbage (optional)

fish sauce

salt and pepper to taste

water

Procedure:

- Saute' garlic and onions, then add chopped tomatoes and fish sauce.

- Add sardines and when about to boil add water.

- When boiling, add the Moringga fruit and Okra.

- After few minutes add eggplant.

Voila! How easy is that?