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.

CREMA DE FRUTA

Sounds very imported,  but Pinoy knows how to prepare it in a simple traditional luscious way.

 

“Hoping to see you,
stays only in my dreams.
No plans to reach you ever,
but faith brought you to me.
Your voice came by like thunder,
you broke in unexpectedly.“

 

INGREDIENTS:
M.Y. San Grahams Honey
Fruit cocktail, drained
Condensed milk
Evaporated milk
Nestle cream

 

“In disguise you look so rough,
piercing like a needle,
burning like a flame.
But in your eyes I see,
your love belongs to me.”

 

DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix 2 cans of nestle cream in 1 can condensed milk and 1 can evaporated milk.
2. Wet the base of the container with the mixture.
3. Arrange the grahams by filling the base of the container, atleast two layers.
4. Pour the mixture on top of the grahams.
5. Distribute the fruit cocktail evenly.
5. Just repeat until you reach your desired layer.
6. Freeze then serve.

 

“In  the middle of the day you came along,
rushing like a wave you took me slow.

 

 

 

The Pinoy Food Delight showcases the delicious meals from different generations of homemade dishes mostly prepared by moms hands-on to their families.