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Filipino Recipes – Morcon Recipe – Pinoy Food
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Being considered a holiday dish in the Philippines, you will often see morcon served during the festive season of Christmas and New Year. It is a meat-roll stuffed with egg, cheese, pickles, carrots, hotdogs or sausages.
Filipinos believe that serving round-shaped foods during the New Year will bring luck and prosperity. So that explains why morcon is ever-present on most tables when families welcome the arrival of yet another New Year because it is round-shaped when sliced.
Ingredients:
- 1 kilo beef (thinly sliced)
- 4 slices pork fat
- 2 slices ham
- 2 pcs sausage (Bilbao or Vienna)
- 2 eggs (hard-boiled)
- 10 pepper-corns
- 12 olives
- ½ bay leaf (Laurel)
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 whole onion
- 2 segments garlic
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- ¼ cup vinegar
- 2 cups water
- Salt (to taste)
Cooking Instructions:
- Cut the beef thin about 12 by 16 inches then pound to flatten it. Pound the garlic and peppercorns then add the vinegar. Soak the beef in the vinegar mixture for a few minutes.
- Cut hard-boiled eggs into halves. Cut the ham, sausage and pork fat into long strips and chop the olives.
- Spread the beef on a wooden board. Arrange the ham, sausage and pork fat in alternate rows. Arrange the eggs and add the olives. Roll and tie with string.
- Fry in deep hot fat until brown.
- In the vinegar mixture used to soak the beef, add water, bay leaf, onion, tomatoes and salt. Add the deep-fried beef roll. Simmer until tender.
- Add the tomato sauce and continue cooking for 2-3 minutes. Remove the roll and cut into slices.
- Arrange on a platter and pour the sauce over the meat. Garnish and serve.
Filipino Recipes – Chicken Pastel Recipe – Pinoy Food
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Often topped with a pie crust, chicken pastel is a truly satisfying dish that is served during fiestas in the Philippines. It is a tasty combination of flavors that would please even someone with a very picky palate. I tried cooking it myself during my son’s birthday last April and a friend approached me asking if I could share the recipe with her. Of course, I gave her a copy and she said that it became an instant favorite among her kids.
If you are looking for a special chicken recipe, this is something that you should try.
Ingredients:
- 1 young chicken
- 1 Spanish sausage (Chorizo de Bilbao)
- 1 can Vienna sausage
- 1 can drained peas
- 1 lemon
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 6 tbsp butter
- 5 cups cold water
- pie crust
- salt and pepper (to taste)
Cooking Instructions:
- Dress and debone the young chicken. Slice into small pieces and place in a bowl. Squeeze the lemon into the chicken and add the soy sauce. Let stand for 15 minutes.
- Place the chicken with marinade in a saucepan with water, salt and pepper. Simmer until the chicken is tender and most of the liquid has evaporated.
- Slice the hard-boiled eggs, Vienna sausage and chorizo. Fry cooked chicken and chorizo in butter until color turns brown. Remove from the pan and place in a Pyrex serving dish with the remaining sauce.
- Arrange the sliced Vienna sausage, peas and eggs on top of the chicken and let cool.
- Cover top with pie crust. Press edges. Bake in moderate oven until brown. Serve hot.
Filipino Recipes – Crabs in Coconut Milk Recipe – Pinoy Food
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Living near a prawn farm and being close to a fishing village, I grew up exposed to different kinds of seafood. From crabs to shrimps to different types of fishes, the list is endless. And with a father who is good in the kitchen, I’m glad that my metabolism is quite fast, or else, I would have grown fat a long time ago.
Crabs cooked in coconut milk is one of the recipes that my father is truly proud of. We would automatically know that he is cooking this delicious recipe because the smell is recognizable even from a distance. Our cousins from the city once spent a week’s vacation in our place and they could never get enough of this amazing dish. And because crabs are somewhat costly in the city, it’s no wonder that they seldom get the chance to have crabs set on their table. With the power of coconut milk put into play, I can understand why they loved it even more.
Ingredients:
- 3 fat crabs
- 1 cup scraped buko (young coconut)
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup thin coconut milk
- 1 cup thick coconut milk
- 1 clove garlic (crushed)
- 2 tbsp onion (minced)
- 2 fresh hot peppers (whole)
- a small slice of ginger
- salt and pepper (to taste)
Cooking Instructions:
- Clean crabs well. Dip briefly in boiling water. Open and remove the fat lining the fat lining the shells. Mix fat with grated buko and ¼ teaspoon salt. Fill shells with the mixture. Wrap each in young banana leaf.
- In a saucepan, arrange the crabs and place the shells wrapped in banana leaf over them. Boil in 1 cup thin coconut milk with whole peppers, salt and pepper for added flavor. As soon as crabs are cooked, add thick coconut milk and simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Best served with plain white rice.
Filipino Recipes – Lang-lang Recipe – Pinoy Food
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For people who like mixed meat dishes, this concoction is something that you should try. Lang-lang is a flavorful dish that will surely please any palate.
Ingredients:
- ¼ kilo lean pork
- ¼ kilo shrimp
- 1 small chicken
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 cup fresh peas
- ½ cups mushrooms
- 1 cup sotanghon
- 1 small onion (chopped fine)
- 1 egg (beaten lightly)
- 1 tbsp flour
- cooking oil
- patis (fish sauce)
- wrappers
- salt and pepper (to taste)
Cooking Instructions:
- Grind or chop pork fine. Peel and devein shrimps, set aside ⅓ chop the rest to fine bits. In a small saucepan, cook chicken in water enough to cover the meat.
- In separate bowls, soak the sotanghon and mushrooms in water. Pound heads of shrimp and extract juice. Prepare wrappers.
- Sauté onion, add chopped shrimp, salt and pepper. Set aside to cool then wrap by teaspoonfuls in wrappers.
- Mix chopped pork, egg, flour, salt and pepper. Form into balls. Cut chicken meat into small pieces.
- Sauté chopped garlic in a little cooking oil until brown. Add shrimps and cook until they turn pink. Add juice (from shrimp heads) and allow to simmer for a 2-3 minutes. Add chicken pieces and chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Drop the meat balls one by one. Add wrapped shrimp mixture, mushrooms and sotanghon. Season with patis and pepper. When done, add the fresh peas and remove from the heat.
How to make the wrappers:
Ingredients:
- ¾ cup flour
- 1 egg yolk
- a little water
- a pinch of salt
Preparation:
- Sift flour well. Place in a small bowl or deep plate. Place egg yolk and a pinch of salt in the center of flour. Mix ingredients using a fork, adding just a little water if needed, until a stiff dough is formed. Knead dough until smooth and elastic. Cover and set aside until for 20 minutes. Roll out dough as thin as possible and divide into small squares about 3×3 inches. Fill each with a teaspoonful of shrimp mixture. Moisten edges with water, fold one corner over and press edges together.
Filipino Recipes – Shrimp Meat Tortilla (omelet) Recipe – Pinoy Food
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The good thing about tortillas is the fact that you can use almost anything to whip into a wonderful recipe. For this post, I combine pork and shrimps (two of my favorites) into a yummy Shrimp Meat Tortilla good for young and old folks alike. I say so, because from my GrandMa down to my little 2-year old boy, this all-around recipe can be served any day. I prefer to serve this during breakfast to break the monotony of cooking plain eggs. With meat and shrimps in the mix, you can tease the taste buds of the people you love. An ordinary breakfast can be turned into something full of smiles and praises whenever I place this dish on the table.
There are still many versions of tortilla that you can prepare out of mixed meats but I always find this recipe as the best meat combination. You can trust me on this!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup ground pork
- ½ cup shrimps shelled(cut finely)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- ½ cup onions (chopped)
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup sliced tomatoes
- 4 tbsp shortening
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
Cooking Procedure:
- Sauté garlic, onion and tomatoes in shortening. Add ground meat then shrimps and continue cooking until well cooked. Season with salt and pepper. Remove the cooked mixture from the pan and set aside.
- Grease the pan with enough shortening and line with a banana leaf. Beat the eggs and add the cooked mixture. Pour the mixture over banana leaf and let cook. Line a plate with another banana leaf and turn the tortilla upside down. Put it back in the pan to brown the other side.
- Serve hot.