Low Budget Meal Recipes

Prawns Curry with Pineapple

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Filipino Style Recipe: prawns curry with pineapple recipe is a quick shrimp strew. It usually consists of prawns cooked in curry sauce together with pineapple chunks.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 10-15 minutes
Good for 2-3 persons

Ingredients:
10 pieces tiger prawns,(remove the head and legs then trim the tails)
250 grams pineapple chunks
2 tablespoons curry powder(dissolved in 1/4 cup water)
1 thumb-sized ginger, minced
2 gloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
3/4 cup water
Salt to taste

Procedures:
1. In a pan, heat oil and saute ginger and garlic.
2. Pour curry mixture and stir until boiling.
3. Add prawns and stir for a minute, add water and bring to boil.
4. Add pineapple and season with salt according to taste.
5. Simmer for 2 minutes or until cooked.
6. Transfer to serving bowl then serve.

Ginisang Munggo(Monggo)

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Filipino Style Recipe: ginisang munggo(munggo guisado) or sauteed mung beans is another typical Filipino dish. Normally the mung beans(munggo) boiled and cooked until soft then sauteed with pork and ampalaya leaves.

Estimated time of preparation: 15-20 minutes
Estimated time of cooking: 30-40 minutes
Good for 2-3 servings

Ingredients:
1 cup mung beans(munggo)
250 grams pork belly, sliced
5 cups water
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 bunch ampalaya leaves or malunggay leaves
1 pork cube
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup pork rind(chicharon), crushed

Procedures:
Part 1
1. Soak mung beans in water for 1-2 hours before boiling.
2. In a pot, boil water and mung beans, simmer for 30 minutes or until mung beans is cooked.

Part 2
1. In a saucepan, cook pork until color turns to light brown and start to render oil.
2. Add garlic, onions and tomatoes, sauteing until it’s cooked.
3. Pour in boiled mung beans, broth and pork cube. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Bring to boil and simmer until thick.
5. Add ampalaya leaves and pork rind. Cover and remove from heat. Serve.

Molo Soup

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Filipino Style Recipe: molo is another soup dish that usually served specially during rainy season. It is made of ground pork wrapped in a wanton wrapper then cooked in chicken stock together with shredded chicken.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 20-30 minutes
Good for 5 servings

Ingredients:
Filling:
500 grams ground pork
1 pack wanton or siomai wrappers
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste

Broth:
1 chicken breast
4 cups water
3 gloves garlic, minced
1 small onion, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
spring onions, chopped(optional)
1 chicken cube(optional)
toasted garlic(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a pot, boil water then add chicken and salt. Cook for 10 minutes. Reserve the broth.
2. Remove chicken and shred using fork. Set aside.

Part 2
1. In a bowl, combine ground pork, egg, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper. Mix until well combined.
2. Scoop about 1 tablespoon filling and place into the center of molo wrapper.
3. Seal the edges using water or egg white in triangular shapes. Repeat for the remaining mixture.

Part 3
1. In a bowl, heat oil and saute garlic and onion.
2. Add shredded chicken, season with salt and pepper.
3. Add chicken cube and pour chicken broth and bring to boil.
4. Add molos and some wrappers and simmer for 5 minutes or until molos are cooked.
5. Sprinkle with spring onions.
6. Transfer to serving bowl, garnish with toasted garlic. Serve.

Ginataang Sitaw

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Filipino Style Recipe: ginataang sitaw or sauteed string beans in coconut milk is healthy yet affordable dish. Normally the string beans(sitaw) cooked with pork in a blend of coconut milk and shrimp paste.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 20-30 minutes
Good for 3-4 servings

Ingredients:
250 grams string beans(sitaw), cut into 2 inches
150 grams pork belly, cut into small pieces
1 1/2 cup coconut milk
1 onion, chopped
2 gloves garlic, minced
1 thumb-sized ginger, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons sauteed shrimp paste(I used Dizon Farm Shrimp Paste)
salt and pepper to taste

2 pieces green chili(siling haba), chopped(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a saucepan, cook pork meat until color turns to light brown and start to render oil.
2. Saute garlic, onion and ginger until translucent.
3. Add shrimp paste and continue sauteing until it’s cooked.
4. Pour coconut milk then bring to boil. Add water if necessary.
5. Season with salt and pepper according to taste then add chili and string beans.
6. Cook for 2-3 minutes or until tender then transfer to serving plate and serve immediately.

Tortang Talong

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Filipino Style Recipe: tortang talong or eggplant omelet recipe is an easy healthy breakfast recipe. It is consists of broiled eggplants then peel off the skin and dip in egg mixture before frying.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 30-40 minutes
Good for 4 servings

Ingredients:
4 medium-sized eggplants(talong)
3 eggs, beaten
salt and pepper to taste
cooking oil for frying

Procedures:
Part 1
1. Broil eggplants until skin are charred and blister.
2. Let it cool then peel off the skin and retain the crown and the stem.

Part 2
1. In a large plate, flatten the eggplant using fork.
2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper. Mix well.
3. Dip each eggplant one at a time into egg mixture.

Part 3
1. In a pan, heat oil and fry eggplant(dipped in egg mixture) until both sides are golden brown.
Drain on paper towels. Serve.

Chicken Sotanghon

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Filipino Style Recipe: chicken sotanghon is a noodle soup dish made of chicken meat boiled in stock together with sotanghon noodles and vegetables. This is commonly served during rainy season.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 30-40 minutes
Good for 3-4 servings

Ingredients:
500 grams chicken, cut into serving pieces
200 grams sotanghon noodles, cut into desired length and soak in water until soft
7 cups chicken stock (or chicken bouillon dissolved in hot water)
1 carrots, julienned
3/4 cup cabbage, shredded
3 gloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, sliced
1 tablespoon fish sauce(patis)
2 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

1/8 cup spring onion, chopped(optional)
30 grams dried black mushrooms(shiitake), (optional)
3-4 pieces hard-boiled eggs(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a bowl, heat oil then saute garlic and onion.
2. Add chicken and mushroom then stir fry until light brown, season with fish sauce.
3. Pour chicken stock then bring to boil and simmer until chicken is cook.
4. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper according to taste.
5. Add sotanghon noodles and carrots then simmer for 3 minutes, add water if necessary.
6. Add cabbage then simmer for 1 minute. Turn off the heat.
7. Transfer to serving bowl then sprinkle with spring onion. Serve with hard-boiled egg.

Ginataang Langka

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Filipino Style Recipe: ginataang langka or jackfruit in coconut milk is another easy yet healthy food. Normally the jackfruit sliced and boiled. Then cooked with coconut milk together with shrimps or salted dried fish, season with salt and pepper.

Estimated time of preparation: 20 minutes
Estimated time of cooking: 30-40 minutes

Good for 5 persons

Ingredients:
6 cups unripe jackfruit(langka), sliced
1 cup coconut cream(first extract)
2 cups coconut milk(second extract)
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1 large onion, chopped
1 thumb-sized ginger, sliced thinly
3 pieces green chili(siling haba)
200 grams medium shrimp or shredded salted dried fish(daing)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste

Procedures:
1. In a saucepan, heat oil and saute onion, garlic and ginger.
2. Add langka, stir and saute for a few minutes.
3. Pour coconut milk(second extract), simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
4. When the sauce is almost absorb, pour coconut cream(first extract) and season with salt and pepper.
5. Cook for another 10 minutes or until langka is tender. Stir occasionally to avoid curdling.
6. Add fried fish and green chili, simmer until sauce is thickens and oily.
7. Transfer to serving bowl then serve.

Turon Saba

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Filipino Style Recipe: turon de saba is another typical Filipino meryenda(mid-afternoon snack). Turon is normally consists of  cardava banana and jackfruit strips wrapped in lumpia wrapper then deep fried with a coating of caramelized brown sugar.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 30-40 minutes

Ingredients:
12 pieces ripe cardava bananas(saging na saba), cut into lengthwise
1 cup Jackfruit strips(langka)
Spring rolls or lumpia wrappers
brown sugar, spread on a plate
1/2 cup brown sugar for cooking
oil for deep frying

Procedures:
Part 1
1. Roll banana in sugar then arrange 2 pieces of coated banana in the middle of the wrapper.
3. Add 2 strips of jackfruit on the top of banana.
4. Wrap and roll the wrapper, use a bit of water to seal the edges.

Part 2
1. In a frying pan, heat oil deep enough that wrapped banana is half-submerged.
2. When the oil is hot enough, sprinkle and spread sugar in the pan.
3. Add wrapped banana, deep fry until golden brown and crisp. Flip to coat evenly.
4. Make sure the wrapped banana is coated with caramelized sugar. Add more sugar if needed.
5. Drain on paper towel then serve.

Spicy Lime and Garlic Chicken

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Filipino Style Recipe: spicy lime and garlic chicken is another healthy low carbohydrate dish. Normally the chicken sauteed and stir fried in a blend of garlic, lime juice and chopped chili.

Estimated time preparation and cooking: 15-20 minutes
Good for 4-5 persons

Ingredients:
5 chicken fillets, cut into serving pieces
1 cup cornstarch
1 cup butter
1/2 cup lime juice
6 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 pieces green and red chili, chopped

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In bowl, combine cornstarch, salt, pepper and chicken. Stir to coat evenly. Set aside.

Part 2
1. In a non-stick pan, melt butter and saute garlic until golden brown.
2. Add chicken and stir fry until tender then pour lime juice.
3. Add chili and adjust seasoning according to taste.
4. Cook for another 3-5 minutes. Transfer to serving plate then serve.

Garlic Mushroom

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Filipino Style Recipe: garlic mushroom is easy yet healthy dish. Usually button mushrooms comes stir fried with garlic then season with salt and pepper. Cooked until oil is sizzling.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking : 10 minutes
Good for 2 persons

Ingredients:
400 grams fresh button mushrooms, whole or sliced
4 gloves garlic, minced
4 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespooons calamansi or lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 teaspoon chili flakes(optional)
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped(optional)

Procedures:
1. In a pan, heat olive oil and saute garlic and chili.
2. Add mushrooms, salt and pepper. Stir fry for 5 minutes or until mushrooms release its own juice.
3. Add lemon juice and simmer until oil is sizzling.
4. Add parsley and stir well. Transfer to serving plate and serve.