Chicken Afritada

Chicken Afritada is a type of Stew that was adapted by Filipinos from the Spanish.

Recipe and cooking procedure after the jump.

Ingredients:

* 1 kilo of Chicken

* ½ kilo potatoes (peeled and quartered)

* 1 small head of garlic (minced)

* 1 big onion (diced)

* 1 red bell pepper (quartered)

* 1 green bell pepper (quartered)

* 1 cup of green peas

* 1 cup of carrots (cut diagonally)

* 2 cups chicken stock or chicken cubes

* 1 cup tomato sauce

* Breadcrumbs

* Salt & Pepper

* Corn Oil

Cooking Procedure:

1. In a casserole, fry chicken until slightly brown and set aside.

2. Sauté garlic and onion.

3. Pour in the stock/cubes and tomato sauce.

4. Bring to a boil and add in chicken.

5. Simmer until chicken is cooked.

6. Add in potatoes, simmer it until it's tender.

7. Add in bell pepper and season with salt & pepper.

8. Add in breadcrumbs and thicken sauce.

9. Serve hot.

Healthy advice: If you'd like to avoid intake of bad cholesterol, remove the skin of the chicken.

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Paksiw na Pata

Ingredients:

- 1 pork's leg - chopped

- 1/2 kilo of dried banana blossoms (bulaklak ng Saging)

- 1 tbsp. of whole peppercorn

- 4 gloves of garlic - crushed

- 1 cup of vinegar

- 2 cups of water

- 2 tbsp. of soy sauce

- 1 tbsp. of salt

- 2 tbsps. brown sugar

Cooking Procedures:

1. Put Pork's leg or pata and all the ingredients in a deep pan with a tight cover.

2. Boil.

3. Lower heat and simmer until meat and skin of the pata is tender and sauce thickens.

Voila!

Ain't that easy?

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Halo-Halo

Summer is fast approaching and the best way to beat the heat is to eat Halo-Halo.

Halo-halo (Mix in English) is a popular Filipino cold dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and milk to which are added various fruits and boiled beans, and served in a tall glass or a bowl.

Ingredients:

* Evaporated Milk

* Sugar

* Banana - Saba (Caramelized)

* Palm fruit or Kaong

* Coconut sport or Macapuno

* Jackfruit or Langka

* Kidney Beans - Boiled and caramelized

* Sago - Caramelized

* Nata de coco

* Purple yam or Halayang ube

* Sweet potato - Kamoteng gapang (Caramelized)

* Sweetened corn kernels

* Ice Cream - any flavor

* Leche Flan

How to prepare a Halo-Halo:

* Put all ingredients to a glass or a bowl except for the milk, ice cream, leche flan.

* Put shaved ice on the glass, pour the milk according to your taste and top it with leche flan, and ice cream.

There are other options for your ingredients; you can add crushed pinipig, bananas and even strawberries. It's up to you!

Crispy Pata (Crispy Fried Pork’s Front Leg)

Ingredients:

* 1 Pork's front leg - Pata

* 1 bottle of 7up or Sprite - Soda

* 1 1/2 cups of water

* 1 tbsp. of salt

* 1/2 tsp. of baking soda

* 2 tbsp. Patis (Fish sauce)

* 2 tbsp. of Flour

* Corn oil for frying

Cooking Procedures:

* Clean Pata and slit skin few times without cutting the bone.

* Put in a deep pan with a tight cover, and then add water, 7up and salt. Boil it.

* After 15 minutes, add baking soda. Baking soda will speed up the softening of the pata's skin. If water dries up and the meat is not done yet, add another cup of water. Meat should not be too tender. Drain when done. Place in the refrigerator overnight to dry the skin.

Before you fry it, brush with patis and sprinkle with flour evenly. Deep fry it until crispy and golden brown.

Serve with vinegar with 2 cloves garlic (crushed), salt and pepper to taste and 1 small hot chilli pepper (Siling Labuyo).

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Pork Menudo

Ingredients:

* 1/2 kilo of pork tenderloin - cut into cubes

* 1/2 kilo of pork liver - cubed

* 1 big red bell pepper - diced

* 1 big green bell pepper - diced

* 3 big potatoes - diced and deep fried

* 1 cup of chickpeas

* 1/2 cup of raisins

* 1 cup stock or water

* Salt and pepper

* 3 tbsps. of corn oil

* 1 whole garlic - minced

* 1 Onion - medium, size and diced

* 2 big tomatoes - diced

Cooking Procedures:

1. In a casserole, heat corn oil.

2. Saute garlic, onion, and tomatoes.

3. Add in pork, liver, bellpepper, and stock or water.

4. Simmer until pork is tender.

5. Add in potatoes, chickpeas, and raisins.

6. Season with salt and pepper.

7. Serve hot

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Bopis

Ingredients:

- 1 kilo pig's heart - boiled and minced

- 1 kilo pig's lungs - boiled and minced

- 1 head of garlic - minced

- 1 onion - minced

- 3 tbsps of corn oil

- 1 laurel leaf

- 3 pieces red bell pepper - diced

- 1/2 cup of vinegar

- 1 cup stock

- 1 tsp hot chili pepper - minced (according to taste)

- salt & pepper

Cooking Procedures:

1. Heat corn oil in a pan, saute' garlic and onion.

2. Add minced heart and lungs.

3. Add salt & pepper.

4. Add laurel leaf, red bell pepper and vinegar.

5. Bring up heat and let it boil without stirring.

6. Stir in stock and hot chili pepper.

7. Lower heat and let it simmer until the stock evaporates.

I personally prefer it dry.

Note: Beef can be a substitute for Pork. Filipino Restaurants in the Middle East are selling Beef Bopis instead of Pork. Pork is not allowed to be sold in a Muslim country.

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Tortang Talong (Eggplant Omelette)

Ingredients:

* 5 medium size Egg Plant or Talong

* 2 eggs

* 1/2 tsp of salt

* 1/4 tsp of ground pepper

* corn oil

Cooking procedure:

1. Roast eggplant preferably in charcoal. For alternative, you can use your gas stove. Put a metal screen on top and roast it. Another alternative beside from roasting is boiling the eggplant.

2. Remove the skin and flatten it with fork. Then set it aside.

3. Scramble the eggs, add salt and pepper.

4. Dip the flattened eggplant into the scrambled egg and fry it.

That easy!

I know this recipe is messy to do but I assure you will love it, just eat it with Banana Catsup and steamed rice.