TINOLANG MANOK

Chicken recipes are always a favourite recipe, from making soup, grilling and stewing. Tinola is one of the easiest chicken recipe, with few and easy to find ingredients. The aroma of ginger and chili leaves, make it typical for asian cuisine. Nowadays most of the green leafy vegetables are frozen packed and available anytime of weather. We tried this recipe using Ginger Soup Base Mix, the taste of the soup is not as good as sautéing fresh ginger, garlic and onion. We added Ginisa Mix and season with fish sauce, the flavor is as good as doing it from scratch. 

Ingredients

• 500 Grams chicken
• 6 cups (1.5 L) water
• 2 Chayote
• 1/2 Cup chilli leaves
• 4 Cups of water
• 4 Peppercorn
• Salt to taste

Maximize Ingredients

• 1 Pack Ginger Soup Base Mix
• 1/2 Pack Ginisa Mix

Easy Extras

• Fish sauce

Chicken are cut into the desired sizes, chayote were peeled and cut. the next step is to put chicken, chayote, pepper corn and let it simmer until boil, add the Ginger Soup Base Mix (Tinola) and Giniza Mix. Simmer until chicken are cooked and chayote are tender. The cooking time of chicken varies on what type are you using, it may take longer if you are using stewing chicken. The meat are tougher and a little scrawnier, but they're great for slow-cooking, such as in a stew, and they make wonderful stock.

As what the old couple always says " the soup is done, take a sip before it gets cold", after simmering for  a few minutes, add the green chilli leaves and taste. Tinola can be added to our daily menu, or a back-up in row row situation. Don't let our fridge dried out with chicken or other meat and frozen vegetables and we are ready for the rainy season. Tinola is high in vitamin C, to help ward off the flu. 

Read More

GINISANG PECHAY SA SARDINAS

In a sauté, all the ingredients are heated at once, and cooked quickly. Here's a tasty stir-fry that uses canned sardines with green leafy vegetables, which only take 10 minutes to prepare and cook. From the basic sautéing of onion, garlic, tomato and simmering the green leafy vegetables to crunchy half done texture. Sardines are the most consumable convenient canned product, using it straight from the can or an addition to different kind of dishes. We are sautéing the Chinese cabbage and add the spicy flavor sardines, and serve this hot with plain rice.

Ingredients

• 2 Cans of can sardines
• 1 Cup Chinese cabbage
• 1 Medium size onion
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 Heads garlic
• Salt and pepper to taste

Maximize Convenience

• 1 Pack Ginisa Mix

Easy Extras

• Substitute for Chinese cabbage ; yam leaves, chayote and papaya

Most of the ingredients that we are using such as ; garlic, onion and tomato are listed as the fresh basic prepared ingredients. If you are the kind of person who always has a fresh garlic and onion on hand and doesn't mind adding a few extra minutes to the preparation time of any recipe. by all means peel and chop your own.

After sautéing the garlic, onion and tomato, add the canned sardines. pour the  water and seasoned with ginisa mix, salt and pepper, simmer until boil. 

Add the slice green Chinese cabbage, simmer for a few minutes and turn the fire off. Always serve the vegetables crunchy or half done, adjust the taste by adding salt or fish sauce. Serve rice topped with our delicious Ginisang Sardinas sa Pechay.

Read More

PANSIT CANTON

Gone are the days when making sauce in cooking noodles was a time consuming, the traditional way of extracting juices from baby crabs or heads of the shrimp. This delicious canton noodles, which depends upon the pack canton seasoning and preparations. The right amount of water and ingredients, makes this wonderful dish taste as the traditional way of cooking it.

Ingredients

• 250 Grams of pansit canton noodles
• 1 Cup of sliced chicken breast
• 1 Cup of cabbage
• 1/2 Cup Chinese cabbage
• 1 Stalk celery
• 1/2 Cup of carrots
• 1 Medium size onion
• 2 Cloves of garlic
• 1 Tablespoon oyster sauce
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Cooking Oil

Maximize Convenience

• 1 Pouch Pansit Canton (Stir Fry) Mix

Easy Extras

• Add Choices of chicken liver, kikiam and fish balls
• Add 1 red or green pepper and slices of green bean

Choices of vegetables are another key of making this dish, the strong flavor of celery, the crunchy carrots and cabbages are one of the good selection. From the basic Sautéing of garlic and onion, add the sliced chicken, vegetables and cook until the outer part turns light brown. Pour the chopsuey/canton mix dissolved in 1 cup of water and oyster sauce, simmer for 3 to 5 minutes . Remove the vegetables and set aside.

Add the remaining 2 cups of water and then the pancit canton noodles, let it simmer until tender and some of the liquid has been absorbed by the noodles. Add the vegetables and toss with noodles, season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving plate and squeeze some lemon or calamansi.

Read More

SOTANGHON SOUP

We had a left-over rotisserie  chicken from yesterday dinner, not to spoiled it, I decided to make a healthy soup using the chicken. We have two choices on how are we going to do it. First, make a simple elbow macaroni soup, second is to cooked it with vermicelli noodles. Looking up the pantry, we had all the ingredients in making Sotanghon soup. 

Ingredients

• 1 Left-over rotisserie chicken breast
• 4 - 60 Grams vermicelli
• 1/2 Cups cabbage
• 1/4 Cups Carrots
• 1 Stalk of celery
• 2 Cloves of garlic
• Salt and pepper to taste

Maximize Convenience 

• 1 Teaspoon annatto powder
• 1 Packed Magic Sarap

Easy Extras

• Substitute for chicken - Chicken breast in can

Soak Vermicelli noodles in hot water for 5 to 8 minutes or until soft. When the noodles have softened, Cut in a shorter lengths using a scissor, leave them soaking in water and set aside. Heat oil in a casserole, sauté garlic onion and chicken. Add carrots, cabbage and season with salt and pepper, cook for another 2 minutes. Add 6 cups of chicken stock, Maggi Magic Sarap, Annatto powder and vermicelli noodles. Simmer for 3-5 minutes or until done.

The taste of a good soup is from how we do the  stock. We boiled the left-over chicken with bone, and a packed of magic sarap that gives a strong flavor of our stock. If your kitchen is well stocked with fresh vegetables, canned, bottled and packaged ingredients, you can prepare this recipe as easy as the instant noodles in a pack.

Read More