Category Archives: Specialty Dishes

PINOY SPAGHETTI

All time favorite in children’s party, and family holidays. A common plate teaser during celebrations, and many occasions, showing the common Pinoy kiddie side, happy and cheerful.

INGREDIENTS:
Spaghetti pasta 
Ground pork
Corned beef
Button mushroom
Hotdog
Carrot
Bell pepper
Ground pepper
Garlic
Onion
Butter
Salt
Pinoy style spaghetti sauce
Ketsup
Sugar
Water
Cheese

DIRECTIONS:
1. Boil spaghetti pasta to cook. Set aside.
2. Sauté garlic, onion, ground pork, corned beef and mushroom in butter.
3. Add salt and water. Bring to boil until tender.
4. Put the hotdog, chopped carrot, and bell pepper.
5. Pour the spaghetti sauce and ketsup.
6. Sugar is optional depending on your desired sweetness.
7. Stir regularly then simmer for few minutes. 
8. Put the cooked pasta on a plate. Pour the sauce, grated cheese on top, then serve.

SIZZLING TOFU

Eating tofu has never been this fun! The flavor of oyster sauce mixing with the sweet potato cuts, chicken, and bell pepper, will surely  excite the pinoy taste buds in  a kicky way.

INGREDIENTS:
Tofu
Chicken breast
Sweet potato
Cooking oil
Salt
Onion
Oyster sauce
Bell pepper
Red and green chili
Celery
Onion leaves
Water

DIRECTIONS:
1. Fry individually: chicken, tofu, and sweet potato, then set aside.
2. Mix water, oyster sauce, and salt. Bring to boil.
3. Put the fried chicken, tofu, and sweet potato cubes in the mixture. Simmer for few minutes.
4. Add the bell pepper, celery, onion leaves, onion, green and red chili.
5. Mix well then Serve.

ACHARA ( pickled papaya )

If koreans have their all time traditional kimchi, the pinoy family also have this sweet and sour healthy mixed of different spices freshly joined to combine with any fried food.

INGREDIENTS:
Grated fresh green papaya
Garlic
Onion
Salt
Carrot, peeled and slice
Red bell pepper, sliced into long strips
Fresh ginger root, peeled and sliced
Pineapple chunks
Raisin
Vinegar
Water
Browm or white sugar

DIRECTIONS:
1. Squeeze well the grated green papaya to remove the juice, then set aside.
2. Mix and boil water, vinegar, and sugar. Make sure that you make the right estimates of the sweet and sour taste mixture.
3. Put all the ingredients to cook.
4. Add the squeezed grated papaya then mix well.
5. Make sure all the ingredients are submerged in the mixture.
6. Put in a container then refrigerate. Serve.

CHICKEN TINOLA

During hot or a cold weather, it’s always pleasant to pamper ourselves with a soup powered by chicken, green papaya fruit, chili and malunggay leaves.

INGREDIENTS:
Chicken
Ginger
Garlic
Onion
Fish sauce
Salt
Green papaya
Green chili
Chili leaves
Malunggay leaves
Cooking oil
Water

DIRECTIONS:
1. Saute the chicken in ginger, garlic, and onion.
2. Add salt and fish sauce.
3. Let it cook for few minutes then add water and green long chili.
4. Before the meat becomes tender, put the green papaya. Let it cook for few minutes.
5.  Include the chili or malunggay leaves then serve.

SQUID ADOBO CUT

Be ready to sizzle an ordinary boring day. This traditional squid dish is a favorite among the general pinoy seafood adobo. Tasteful enough to energize a day of work.

”Uninvited, you came along,
carrying a trigger,
you turned me on.
No button was pressed,
but something exploded.
That day the loudest sound,
started to bother me all the time.”

INGREDIENTS:
Native Squids
Garlic
Onion
Ground black pepper
Salt
Tomato
Vinegar
Cooking oil
Long green chili

“You move like a flash,
breaking like disaster.
Removing my peace of mind,
robbing every bits of my silence.“

DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix and boil squids with garlic, ground black pepper, salt, and vinegar.
2. Taste if the squids are already cooked and tender.
3. Saute garlic, onion, and tomato on another pan.
4. Add the sauteed spices with the cooked squids.
5. Let it simmer for few minutes. Serve.