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Sotanghon Soup with Patola and Egg

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Filipino Style Recipe: Sotanghon soup with patola and egg is another noodle soup dish that usually serve during rainy season. The pork sauteed then cooked with patola and sotanghon noodles. Topped with egg slices and saffron before serve.

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

Ingredients:
1 big-sized sponge gourd(patola), peeled and sliced
2 packs sotanghon noodles
4 eggs, boiled, peeled and sliced
150 grams pork, cut into small pieces or shrimps
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
fish sauce and pepper to taste
1 pork broth cubes(optional)
1/2 teaspoon saffron(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a saucepan, heat oil then saute garlic and onion.
2. Add pork and fish sauce then cook until color turns to light brown.
3. Add water and pork broth cubes then simmer for 10 minutes or until the meat is tender.
4. Add patola and cook for 2 minutes then season with fish sauce and pepper.
6. Add sotanghon noodles and simmer for 1 minute.
7. Remove from heat then transfer to serving bowl. Top with sliced eggs and saffron.

Sarciadong Galunggong

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Filipino Style Recipe: sarciadong galunggong is another simple and easy Filipino dish. This dish is a way to re-cooked left over galunggong. It is usually consist of fried fish then cooked in a combination of tomatoes and beaten eggs.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 20-30 minutes
Good for 3-5 persons

Ingredients:
6-8 pieces medium-sized galunggong, cleaned
2 pieces eggs, beaten
4 medium-sized tomatoes, diced
1 medium-sized onions, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup water
fish sauce and ground pepper to taste
cooking oil
2 tablespoons chopped spring onion(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. Make a slit on both sides of galunggong then sprinkle with salt.
2. In a pan, heat cooking oil and fry fish until brown. Drain and set aside.

Part 2
1. In same pan, reduce the oil then saute onion, garlic and tomatoes until soft.
2. Add water, spring onion, fish sauce and ground pepper. Bring to boil.
3. Add beaten eggs, once the eggs curdles start stirring the mixture.
4. Add fried galunggong and simmer for minutes.
5. Transfer to serving plate then sprinkle with remaining spring onion. Serve with rice. Enjoy!

Native Chicken Tinola

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Filipino Style Recipe: Native chicken Tinola or chicken ginger soup is similar to tinolang manok. We used Philippine native chicken(wild chicken) which delivers more flavorful broth but it takes more time until tender. This simple Filipino recipe is usually served to patients and lactating mothers specially during rainy season.

Estimated time of preparation: 20 minutes
Estimated time of cooking: 60-70 minutes
Good for 5-7 persons

Ingredients:
1 kilo native chicken, cut into serving pieces
2 pieces green papaya or chayote(sayote), cut into small pieces
1 cup malunggay leaves or chili leaves
5 stalks lemongrass(tanglad), knotted and crushed
1 thumb-sized ginger, cut into strips
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 onion, chopped
1 litre of water or rice washing
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 tablespoons fermented fish sauce(sabaw ng bagoong isda)
fish sauce or salt to taste

Procedures:
1. In a sauce pan, heat oil over medium heat then saute ginger, garlic and onion.
2. Add chicken and fermented fish sauce then continue sauteing until the color chicken turn to light brown.
3. Add water and lemongrass then simmer in a low heat for an hour or until chicken is tender. Add more water if necessary.
4. Add papaya then continue simmering for another 5 minutes.
5. Season with salt to taste then add malunggay leaves and simmer for another minute.
6. Remove from heat then transfer to a serving dish and serve. Enjoy!

Nilagang Buto-Buto ng Baboy

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Filipino Style Recipe: nilagang buto-buto ng baboy or pork ribs stew is another simple soup dish. Pork ribs boiled until tender then add onion, peppercorn, salt, potatoes, cardava banana, cabbage and green beans. This dish is usually serve as main dish specially during rainy season.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 30-40 minutes
Good for 3-5 persons

Ingredients:
500 grams pork ribs, cut into serving pieces
7 cups water(add more if necessary)
1 onion, sliced
1/4 teaspoon peppercorn
1 piece pork bouillon cube(optional)
2 potatoes, quartered
3 pieces cardava banana(saging na saba), cut into 3-4 pieces(optional)
1 bundle green beans, trimmed and cut into 3-4inch(optional)
1 bundle bok choy(pechay) or cabbage leaves(repolyo), cut into serving pieces
fish sauce or salt to taste

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a large casserole, place meat and add water then bring to a boil and simmer over medium heat or until meat is tender.(Remove the scum as it rises.)

Part 2
1. Add onion, peppercorn, pork broth cubes and sprinkle some salt.
2. Add banana and potatoes and continue cooking until potatoes are cooked.
3. Add the green beans. Simmer for 3-5 minutes then adjust seasoning according to taste.
4. Add pechay then turn off the heat and leave for about 3 minutes before serving.
5. Transfer to serving bowl then serve hot with steamed rice. Enjoy

Chicken Tinola with Sotanghon

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Filipino Style Recipe: Chicken tinola with sotanghon is a chicken ginger soup with sotanghon noodles. This soup dish is simple and easy to prepared. Like the usual tinolang manok, the chicken sauteed in ginger, garlic and onion until brown then simmered and cooked in rice washing until tender with chayote, chili leaves and sotanghon noodles. This dish is usually serve  as main dish specially during rainy season.

Estimated time of preparation and cooking: 45-50 minutes.
Good for 4-6 persons.

Ingredients:
1 kilo chicken, cut into serving pieces
2 pieces chayote squash(sayote) or green papaya, cut into small pieces
1 cup chili leaves or malunggay leaves
1 thumb-sized ginger, cut into strips
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 onion, chopped
2 tablespoon fish sauce(patis)
1 litre of water
4 tablespoon vegetable oil
salt to taste

Procedures:
1. In a sauce pan, heat oil over medium heat then saute ginger, garlic and onion.
2. Add chicken, fish sauce, ground pepper and continue sauteing until the color chicken turn to light brown.
3. Pour water then simmer for 10 minutes or until chicken is tender.
4. Add in chayote then continue simmering for another 5 minutes.
5. Adjust seasoning according to taste then add sotanghon and simmer for another minute.
6. Add chili leaves then turn off the heat, let stand for a few minutes to cook the leaves.
7. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve hot with steamed or garlic rice. Enjoy!

Malunggay and Corn Soup with Shrimps

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Filipino Style Recipe: Corn and malunggay soup with shrimps is another easy and simple soup dish that is commonly serve during rainy season. This healthy dish consists of corn, malunggay and shrimps sauteed and cooked in chicken or shrimp broth.

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

Ingredients:
3 gloves garlic, minced
1 onion, chooped
8-10 pieces shrimps, peeled and deveined
1 cup corn kernels
a bunch of malunggay leaves
1 chicken or shrimp bouillon(broth cubes)
3 cups water
fish sauce or salt and pepper to taste

Procedures:
1. In a pot, heat oil then saute garlic and onion.
2. Add corn kernels and shrimps then continue sauteing for 3 minutes.
3. Pour water and bring to boil then add bouillon cube.
4. Adjust seasoning with fish sauce and pepper then add malunggay leaves.
5. Simmer for 1-2 minutes then turn off the heat.
6. Transfer to serving bowl and serve hot.

Pesang Tilapia

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Filipino Style Recipe: Pesang tilapia is an easy and simple fish dish similar to nilaga. Commonly the fish boiled until tender then add onion, leeks, peppercorn, salt, potatoes, bok choy or cabbage.

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

Ingredients:
1 big-sized tilapia or any fish, cleaned and cut into serving pieces
1 onion, chopped
1 thumb-sized ginger, slice thinly
2 onion leeks, chopped
1 teaspoon peppercorns
4 tablespoons fish sauce
1/4 head cabbage or a bunch of pechay
3/4 liter rice washing or water
salt to taste
1 medium-sized potatoes, quartered(optional)

Procedures:
1. In a pot, heat oil then saute ginger, onion and onion leeks.
2. Add potatoes and peppercorns then continue sauteing for a minute.
3. Pour rice washing and bring to boil then season with fish sauce.
4. Add fish then simmer for 3 minutes. Adjust seasoning according to taste.
5. Add cabbage then simmer for another 2 minutes. Turn off the heat.
6. Transfer to serving bowl then serve immediately.

Sotanghon Patola Soup with Siomai

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Filipino Style Recipe: sotanghon patola soup with siomai is another easy and mouth-watering soup dish that usually during rainy season. Usually the sotanghon noodles, luffa(patola) and siomai boiled in water until done then season with fish sauce and pepper according to taste.

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

Ingredients:
2 packs sotanghon noodles
1 medium-sized luffa(patola), peeled and sliced diagonally
12 pieces siomai(pork or beef)
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
fish sauce or salt and ground pepper to taste

1 pork bouillon(pork cube),(optional)
1 egg, beaten(optional)
spring onion, chopped(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a bowl, soak sotanghon in water until soft then cut into desired length. Set aside.

Part 2
1. In a pot, heat oil and saute garlic and onion
2. Add water and bring to boil then add pork bouillon.
3. Add siomai and simmer until 5 minutes or until cooked.
4. Season with fish sauce and ground pepper according to taste.
5. Add sotanghon noodles and patola then simmer for another 2 minutes.
6. Turn off the heat then pour beaten egg while keep stirring.
7. Transfer to serving bowl and sprinkle with spring onion then serve immediately.

Sardines Sotanghon Soup

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Filipino Style Recipe: Sardines Sotanghon Soup is another easy and simple soup dish. The sardines in tomato sauce sauteed and cooked together with sotanghon noodles and veggies. I use spicy sardines because I usually serve this dish during rainy season.

Ingredients:
2 small cans spicy sardines in tomato sauce
200 grams sotanghon noodles, cut into desired length and soak in water until soft
1 tomato, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2-4 cups water
3/4 cup cabbage, shredded(optional)
1/4 teaspoon chili flakes(optional)
spring onion for garnishing(optional)

Procedures:
1. In a pan, heat oil and saute garlic, onion, chili flakes and tomatoes until soft.
2. Add sardines including tomato sauce, break big chunks then stir cook for a minute.
3. Add water then bring to boil, season with salt and pepper according to taste.
4. Add sotanghon noodles then simmer for 2 minutes. Add water if necessary.
5. Add cabbage then simmer for another minute then remove from heat.
6. Transfer to serving bowl then sprinkle with spring onion. Serve with steamed rice.

Vegetable Chowder Soup

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Filipino Style Recipe: vegetable chowder soup is a creamy and healthy vegetable dish that is made up of chopped vegetables like broccoli, potatoes and carrots cooked in a blend of flour, milk and cheese.

Estimated time of preparation: 15 minutes
Estimated time of cooking: 60-70 minutes
Good for 8-10 servings

Ingredients:
4 cups broccoli florets, chopped
2 medium potatoes, minced
2 medium carrots, minced
1-1/2 cups water
1 large onion, minced
4 cups evaporated milk
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup cheddar cheese, cubed
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

1 chicken bouillon cube(optional)
2 stalks celery, chopped(optional)
1 cup corn kernels(optional)
2 cups chicken fillet, cooked and shredded(optional)

Procedures:
Part 1
1. In a bowl, combine flour and 1 cup milk, mix until smooth. Set aside.

Part 2
1. In a saucepan, heat oil then saute onion.
2. Add celery, carrots and potatoes then continue sauteing for 5 minutes. Add a little water if needed.
3. Pour flour mixture, milk, chicken bouillon, salt and pepper.
4. Add the other ingredients then simmer for an hour or until sauce thicken. Keep stirring.
5. Remove from heat and add cheese just until melted. Serve.