Simple Meal: Ginisang Munggo

Another meal that I love to cook (because it's easy) is Ginisang Munggo. Usually, I cook this alone but this can be served together with pork chop or fried fish.

My father used to cook this one when we were children but I never learned to cook it.  Only now that we are here in MY.

You will need the following:

1. 1/2 kilo Munggo Beans
2. 1/8 kilo minced pork
3. Onion, garlic, oil and pork cubes
4. 1 piece medium tomato
5. 4 tablespoon fish sauce

Very simply done:

1. Put your Munggo Beans in pan of water and let it stay there overnight
     ~ this will soften the beans
2. Boil your Munggo Beans for an hour, stir occasionally so that it will not stick into the pan
3. In another pan, heat oil and cook garlic, onion, minced pork and pork cubes
4. Pour the boiled munggo beans and stir
5. Pour the fish sauce

If you have talbos ng sili then its good to include that in this dish.

Happy Eating! 

Simple Meal: Ginger Chicken with Oyster Sauce

It was supposed to be my husband to cook this dish but since he needs to stay a few more hours at the office he asked me to do it instead.

I don't want to cook it since I haven't cooked it before (comfort zone) but since he insisted then might as well learn a new thing and cook it.






Ingredients:
1. 1/4 kilo boneless chicken cut into 2inch cubes
2. 2 tablespoon cornstarch
3. 2 tablespoon oyster sauce
4. 2 tablespoon rice wine (alternative is apple juice - don't ask me, it was Sweets' research)
5. 2 tablespoon soysauce
6. 1 teaspoon sugar (white / brown will do)
7. 2 tablespoon ginger (thinly sliced, like match sticks)
8. 2 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
9. 5 leaves of spring onions, cut into 2inches long
10. 1/8 cup water
11. 3 tablespoon cooking oil 
12. Salt and pepper to taste

Very simply done:

1. In a separate bowl, pour in the chicken, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 2 tablespoon of oil - mix well
2. For the sauce, in another separate bowl, pour in all the liquid ingredient (except for the water) - Oyster sauce, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar and cornstarch. Mix well and set aside.
3. Heat the pan, when the heat is just about right (we all know how to figure that one out) then pour in your oil and wait until again it's hot.  Saute the ginger for 35-40 seconds and get your ginger out of the pan.  (Ginger tastes bad if its burnt).
4. Saute your garlic and until it's golden brown, pour in the chicken and wait until it's golden brown.  Since this is not deep fried, turn your chicken back and forth so that it will not burn.
5. When the chicken is evenly cooked, give your sauce another stir and pour it in. Then continue to mix the sauce with the chicken for another 3 - 5 minutes.
6. Add water and continue to mix for another 2 minutes until the sauce thickens. Add salt and pepper to add to the taste.
7. Add the spring onions and continue to mix for 30 seconds.
8. Serve while hot with steamed rice.


Note:
~ If you like more ginger taste then add more ginger
~ If you like more saucy then add more water or cornstarch

Yield: 2 hungry persons!

Enjoy!

Simple Meal: Talong Sitaw

I know that this is the first time that you've heard this name.  Yes, I know that this is different ~ I have an explanation for this.

Here in MY, we have a favorite food shop called "Recharge".  This is where we eat every time we are lazy to cook.  They have this meal and it's called "French Long Bean and Fried Brinjal", this meal has minced pork in it and a very nice sauce.  Very good served with plain rice.

I liked it and we call it "Talong Sitaw".  When we order "Talong Sitaw" Auntie knows already which dish we are referring to.  Since I liked it so much, I tried to imitate it.

Ingredients:

1. One piece eggplant (MY eggplant is equivalent to 2 eggplants in PH) - cut into small pieces (2 inches)

2. 1/4 kilo string beans (cut into 2 inches)

3. 4 tablespoon soy sauce

4. 2 tablespoon vinegar

5. 1 tablespoon sugar

6. 1/8 kilo minced pork

7. 1/2 pork cubes, maggi magic sarap

8. 1/2 cup water

9. garlic, onion, 1/2 cup cooking oil

This is how it's simply done.

1. Heat pan and pour oil

2. Cook eggplant - set aside

3. In another pan, pour oil

4. Saute garlic, onion, minced pork and pork cubes

5. Once pork is golden brown pour in the string beans and saute

6. Once the string beans is half cooked, pour in soy sauce and bring to boil

7. Add 1/2 cup water and bring to boil

8. Add vinegar and sugar then let simmer

9. Pour in the eggplant and mix well

10. Serve with steamed rice

Enjoy!

Simple Meal: Chicken Adobo

 



This is one of my favorite however Sweets does not like it much so I seldom cook it.

Chicken Adobo!

 





Ingredients:

1. 3/4 kilo chicken (breast and thigh)
2. 1 head garlic (crushed)
3. 4 tablespoon soy sauce
4. 2 tablespoon vinegar
5. 1/2 cup water
6. 3 tablespoon cooking oil
7. Pepper

 

How it was simply done:

~ Marinade the chicken together with garlic and soy sauce (overnight much better)
~ Heat pan and put cooking oil
~ Once cooking oil is just about hot, place the marinated chicken until golden brown
~ Once chicken is almost half cooked, put the water and bring to boil
~ Once boiling, pour in the vinegar and cook for 5 more minutes
~ Put pepper to taste

I like my Chicken Adobo dry, just the right sauce but not too saucy.
Best served with steamed rice and Coca Cola. :)

Enjoy!

Simple Meal: Buttered Shrimp

Another meal that I enjoyed preparing is Buttered Shrimp!  One simple reason is that it is very easy to prepare!  

Good thing that my husband and I both loved shrimps and therefore we always enjoy eating this dish.



Ingredients:

1/4 kilo medium sized shrimps
1/4 cup butter
3 heads of garlic (if you want more garlic then you can add more)
1 cup sprite / 7-up

Procedure:

1. Marinate the shrimp into the Sprite / 7-up, usually 15 minutes will do but I prefer overnight.  This will enable to the Sprite to sip through the shrimps better.  Giving it a sweet taste
2. Heat pan, let butter melt together with the finely chopped garlic
3. Once the garlic is light brown, pour in the shrimp together with the marinate
4. Cook until the butter is thick
5. Enjoy with steamed rice

Yield = 2 people

 
Enjoy this very simple meal as we enjoyed it!

Simple Meal: Pork Steak

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Another meal that I recently cooked is the Pork Steak.  It may look complicated but in reality it's very easy.  Specially to like me who is not an expert cook.  







Here goes:

1. 4 pcs porkchop (better get the one with fat and pork skin)
2. 4 pcs Calamansi (Lime / Lemon if Calamansi is not available)
3. 1/2 cup soy sauce
4. 1 cup water
5. 1 medium sized white onion
6. Salt and Pepper to taste
7. 1/2 cup cooking oil


Let's get started:

For your Marinade, add 4 tbsp of soy sauce and 4 pcs Calamansi - mix all together with the pork chop.  Marinating time is minimum 1 hour but the longer the better, the sauce is absorbed better overtime.

1. In a hot pan, heat the cooking oil
2. Put the pork and turn over from time to time, 2 min alternately (this will give the pork a tender taste without burning it)
3. Once evenly cooked, remove the oil from the pan
4. Pour in the water and let it boil together with the pork
5. Add in the soy soy sauce used for marinating, the remaining soy sauce and  continue to boil
6. Add salt and pepper to taste
7. Sugar and calamansi can be also be added
8. Add the white onions while simmering
9. Serve with steamed rice

Enjoy!

Simple Meal: Ginataang Sitaw at Kalabasa

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One of the many dishes that I learned to cook while here in MY is Ginataang Sitaw at Kalabasa. 

After referring to recipes from the internet, I have finally mastered the taste that my husband and I would love.




Here goes:

1. 1/8 part of small sized pumpkin
2. 10 pcs of string beans (cut into 3 inches)
3. 3 cloves garlic (minced)
4. 1 small sized onion, chopped
5. 1/8 kilo diced pork
6. 1 green chili
7. 1 cup coconut milk
8. Salt and Pepper to taste
9. Half pork cubes
10. 3 tbsp cooking oil

Procedure:

1. Cut the string beans and pumpkin into its regular serving size
2. In a sauce pan, pour in your cooking oil, let it heat for 30 seconds
3. Pour in garlic, onion, pork and pork cubes ~ saute and wait until the pork is slightly brown
4. Add the pumpkin and suate until the pumpkin is half cooked
5. Add the string beans, saute for one minute
6. Pour in the coconut milk, continue stirring until the coconut milk becomes light brown and thick
7. Add in the salt, pepper to taste, may also add fish sauce. Then add the green chili.
8. Simmer for another 5-10 minutes (depending on how you want your pumpkin to be cooked)
9. Serve while hot with steamed rice
10. Good for two people

This dish can be made together with shrimp.
It can also be paired with fried fish (GG in Pinas).

Enjoy!