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Beef Stroganoff

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Filipino Style Recipe: beef stroganoff is a Russian dish consists of beef strips and mushrooms served with sour cream. It became popular to Filipino cuisine and some other countries. Normally the beef sauteed and cooked with mushrooms in a blend of sour cream and seasonings.

Estimated time of preparation: 10 minutes
Estimated time of cooking: 20 minutes
Good for 4-6 persons

Ingredients:
1 kilo beef tenderloin or sirloin, cut into large strips
1/2 cup sliced button mushrooms
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons cornstarch(dissolved in 1/4 cup water)
salt and pepper to taste

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a bowl, combine beef, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Marinate for 30 minutes.

Part 2
1. In a pan, melt butter and stir fry marinated beef for 3 minutes or until brown and tender. Drain and set aside.
2. In a same pan, add butter and saute onion and mushroom until golden brown.
3. Add stir-fried beef, sour cream, salt and pepper. Simmer in a low heat for 3 minutes. Stir constantly.
4. Add dissolved cornstarch and stir for another minute or until thicken.
5. Remove from heat then serve hot with bread, pasta or rice.

Notes:
1. You may also add condensed cream of mushroom soup if you prefer.
2. You may also used yogurt instead of sour cream.

Paksiw na Tilapia

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Filipino Style Recipe: Paksiw na tilapia is a quick and easy fish dish by Filipinos. The fish and vegetables cooked in a blend of vinegar and some spices like garlic, onion and ginger. Here is my Mom’s recipe on how to cook the usual paksiw na tilapia. Enjoy cooking!

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

Ingredients:
4 pieces medium-sized tilapia, cleaned, scales removed and cut diagonally into half
1 small garlic, pounded
1 onion, sliced
1 thumb-sized ginger, sliced and pounded
1/2 cup vinegar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon cooking oil
1 teaspoon peppercorn
2 teaspoon salt
3 green chili(siling haba)
5 small okra, heads removed

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a pan, arrange tilapia, garlic, onion, ginger, salt and peppercorn.
2. Pour water, vinegar and cooking oil then add vegetable and green chili.
3. Cover and simmer in a medium heat for 10-15 minutes or until tender.
4. Remove from heat and Serve.

Notes:
1. You may also used eggplants or bitter gourd(ampalaya) as alternative vegetable.

Pansit Bihon Guisado

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Filipino Style Recipe: pansit bihon guisado is a noodle dish originate from Chinese that has become very popular in Filipino cuisine. Pansit bihon consists of rice noodles(bihon) mixed with pork, chicken and different vegetables. This dish is commonly served in different occasions.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 40-60 minutes
Good for 8-10 persons

Ingredients:
500 grams rice noodles(bihon)
100 grams pork, sliced in small pieces
1 chicken breast, cooked and shredded
4 cups chicken broth from chicken breast
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 kilo snow peas(sitsaro)
2 cups cabbage, sliced into strips
1 carrot, julienned
1 cup celery(kintsay), sliced
4 tablespoons cooking oil
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
salt and pepper to taste
10 pieces calamansi

100 grams pork or chicken liver(optional)
100 grams shrimps, shelled and deveined(optional)
1 chicken cube(bouillon cube)(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a big bowl with water, soak noodles for 10 minutes or until soft. Drain and set aside.

Part 2
1. In a wok, saute the garlic and onions.
2. Add pork and liver, then cooked until color turns to brown.
3. Add broth, soy sauce, and bouillon cube then simmer for 3 minutes.
4. Add vegetables and the remaining ingredients then season with salt and pepper. Simmer for 5 minutes or until half cooked.
5. Remove and set aside all the ingredients except for the liquid.(Make sure the liquid is enough for the noodles to cook and absorb).
6. Add bihon then toss until the the liquid absorb.
7. Put back all the ingredients then cooked 2 minutes. Mix well.
6. Adjust seasoning according to taste then remove from heat. Serve hot with calamansi.

Adobong Tahong

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Filipino Style Recipe: Adobong tahong is another way of cooking mussels. This seafood dish is simple and easy recipe. Like the usual adobo recipe, the mussels stir fried in garlic, onion and ginger. Then cooked in soy sauce, vinegar season with salt.

Estimated time of preparation: 10 minutes
Estimated time of cooking: 10-15 minutes
Good for 3-4 persons.

Ingredients:
1 kilo mussels(tahong), cleaned with beard removed
1/4 cup soy sauce
4 tablespoons vinegar
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 thumb-sized ginger, cut in strips
2 pieces bay leaf
1 teaspoon peppercorns
1/2 cup mussels broth
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
sugar, salt to taste

chopped spring onion for garnishing(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a pot, place mussels and ginger then pour enough water. Bring to boil until the shells open.
2. Remove the mussels from the shell. Set aside mussels and the broth.

Part 2
1. In a pan, heat oil and saute onion, garlic and ginger.
2. Add mussels, soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaf, peppercorns and chili flakes.
3. Pour broth and simmer for 5 minutes or until the sauce is almost absorb.
4. Season with sugar, salt according to taste.
5. Transfer to serving plate then sprinkle with spring onion. Serve with steamed rice.

Stir Fry Snow Peas and Mushrooms

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Filipino Style Recipe: Stir fry snow peas and mushrooms is another easy yet healthy food. Normally the snow peas and mushrooms comes stir fried then cooked in a blend of cornstarch, water and soy sauce.

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

Ingredients:
2 cups fresh snow peas(sitsaro), trimmed
1 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 chicken cube(bouillon cube)
2 olive oil

Procedures:
1. In a pan, heat olive oil and stir fry snowpeas and mushrooms.
2. In a bowl, combine cornstarch, water, soy sauce and chicken cube. Mix until well blended.
3. Pour the mixture in a pan, simmer for 2 minutes or until thickens. Serve hot.

Stir Fry Shrimp in Tomato Paste

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Filipino Style Recipe: Stir fry shrimp in tomato paste is another easy and quick shrimp dish. It usually consists of shrimp fried and cooked in tomato paste, soda and vinegar then season with salt and pepper.

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

Ingredients:
12 large shrimps, peeled and deveined
1/2 egg white
1 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 tablespoon tomato paste
1/4 cup vinegar
1 1/2 cups soda(sprite or 7-up)
salt and pepper to taste
cooking oil for frying

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a bowl, mix cornstarch, egg white and salt. Toss shrimp to coat evenly.
2. In a frying pan, heat oil and fry shrimp until color turns to golden brown. Drain and set aside.

Part 2
1. In a sauce pan, pour tomato paste, soda, vinegar, salt and pepper.
2. Bring to boil until slightly reduced and thicken. Stir constantly.
3. Add fried shrimp and toss to coat. Remove from heat.
4. Transfer to serving plate then serve hot.

Bagnet

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Filipino Style Recipe: Bagnet is the Ilocano version of lechon kawali. This dish is the delicacy in Ilocos region. Normally the pork belly boiled and deep fried until crispy and blister on skin then serve with vinegar.

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork belly(liempo), slice into 2 inch thick
5 gloves garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon peppercorns
2 tablespoon salt
1 bay leaves
1/2 liter water
cooking oil for frying
2 tablespoon flour(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a pot, arrange pork belly and pour water, garlic, peppercorns, bay leaves and salt.
2. Bring to boil for 45-60 minutes or until tender. (Cook in pressure cooker takes 25 minutes).
3. Drain on paper towel and let it cool. Refrigerate over night.

Part 2
1. Sprinkle the pork belly with a small amount of flour to prevent it from drying.
2. In a frying pan, heat enough oil and deep fry pork belly in low heat for 30 minutes or until brown.
3. Drain on paper towel and let it cool.
4. Reheat the same oil and deep fry the pork belly once more for 10 minutes.
5. Sprinkle with cold water, this will help blister the pork skin.
6. Repeat the procedure until crisp and blisters on the skin.
7. Drain on paper towels and slice to serving pieces.
8. Serve with spicy vinegar.

Stir Fry Fish Fillet and Bok Choy in Oyster Sauce

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Filipino Style Recipe: Stir fried fish fillet and bok choy in oyster sauce is another easy yet healthy food. Normally the fish fillet comes stir fried together with bok choy then cooked in oyster sauce.

Estimated time preparation and cooking: 15-20 minutes
Good for 2-3 persons

Ingredients:
300 grams fish fillet, cut into serving pieces
a bunch of Vietnam pechay(bok choy)
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 thumb-sized ginger, sliced thinly
1/4 cup oyster sauce
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon sesame oil(optional)

Marinate:
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoon lemon or calamansi juice
1/4 cup cornstarch

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a bowl, combine fish, soy sauce, lemon juice and cornstarch. Marinate for 10 minutes.

Part 2
1. In a pan, heat oil and saute garlic, onion and ginger until golden brown. Drain and set aside.
2. In a same pan, stir fry fish for 5 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside.

Part 3
1. In a same pan, stir fry bok choy and add toasted garlic, onion and ginger. Cook for 1 minutes.
2. Add stir-fried fish, oyster sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper. Mix well.
3. Transfer to serving plate then serve.

Pinangat na Isda

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Filipino Style Recipe: pinangat na isda is another simple and easy Filipino dish. It is usually consist of fish cooked in a combination of kamias or tamarind, tomatoes and some spices.

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

Ingredients:
1 kilo fish(tilapia, hasa-hasa, bisugo, sapsap), cleaned
1 piece onion, sliced
1/2 kilo tomatoes, sliced
2 cups kamias or green tamarind or green mangoes or calamansi juice
2-3 cups of water
salt and pepper to taste
2 pieces green chili(siling haba)(optional)

Procedures:
1. In a pot, arrange fish, onion, tomatoes, kamias, salt and pepper.
2. Add water until almost cover the fish.
3. Cover and simmer over low fire.
4. While boiling, fetch all the tomatoes and kamias and put in a bowl.
5. Press altogether using fork and put back in the pot.
6. Adjust seasoning according to taste and continue cooking until the fish is done.

Chicken Sopas

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Filipino Style Recipe, Chicken Sopas or Chicken Macaroni Soup is an easy Filipino soup dish. It is mainly made up of macaroni pasta and chicken meat cooked in milk and chicken broth.

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

Ingredients:
3 cups uncooked macaroni(elbow or shell)
2 pieces chicken breast
2 cups evaporated milk
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 large onions, minced
3 pieces hot dogs, sliced
1 medium carrot, sliced into strips
3-4 cups water
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 small cabbage, roughly shredded(optional)
1 piece chicken cubes(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a pot, pour water and boil chicken, chicken cubes, onion, salt and pepper until chicken is tender.
2. Remove the chicken and save the broth.
2. Shred the chicken into small pieces using your fingers. Set aside.

Part 2
1. In a sauce pan, heat vegetable oil and saute garlic and onion.
2. Add the sliced hot dogs and the shredded chicken meat and saute for about a minute. Stir constantly.
3. Pour the chicken broth and bring to boil. Add water if needed.
4. Add carrots and macaroni pasta. Simmer until the macaroni is almost done.
5. Add milk and cabbage and continue stirring until simmering.
6. Adjust seasoning according to taste.
7. Remove from heat and transfer to serving bowl. Serve hot!