Filipino Fruit Salad Recipe

August 19, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Fruit SaladFruit salad recipe is a very simple and easy to prepare. All you need to do is to prepare the fruits of your own choice. Please select the freshest fruits in the market so that you will be able to have the best and healthy salad in town. This recipe is a perfect to serve during special occasions like b-days, Christmas, New Year, and Fiestas. Occasions are not somehow complete w/o it.

It has been proven that fruit salad has antioxidants to slow down the aging process, prevent and even reverse cancer and heart disease and strengthen the immune system. Plus, eating assorted fresh fruits is very delicious and fun too.
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Filipino Beef Bulalo/Pochero (Beef Bone Marrow Stew) Recipe

July 29, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Beef Bulalo/PocheroBeef Bulalo or other known as Pochero actually refers to the beef bone marrow which is boiled for hours until the marrow is tapped out from the bone. It is one such a favorite Filipino soup that is perfectly served during cold weather even in warm weather too. The hotter the soup it was made, the best time to serve.

This dish is a hearty one-pot meal. Terribly easy to do, but it does take some planning as it does take a while to cook. So, you should start to prepare the cooking in the afternoon hoping to have it done in the dinner time.
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Filipino Crispy Pata Recipe

July 16, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Crispy PataCrispy Pata is a special dish to every Filipinos because of its crispiness and very delicious taste. But before I give you the procedure on how to make a good crispy pata, let us try to know first the meaning of the word “crispy pata” and its origin. Crispy pata means deep fried pata with a crunchy rind and soft and moist meat inside. Pata is the front or hind leg of the pig. In the Philippines, that means the leg and the trotters (knuckles).
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Fishball is Pinoy’s Most Tempting Streetfood Delicacies

July 7, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · 3 Comments 

Fish ballsFish balls are made of fish meat that has been finely pulverized by hand and formed into balls. It is a type of food product made from surimi (fish puree or slurry). Fish balls originally came from China but most Filipinos really appreciate the tempting taste of this food and made fish balls as their favorite merienda or snacks. Today, fish balls can be sold almost every street corner in the Philippines. If you buy it in the street, vendors can put the fish balls into stick from wooden deep frying carts.
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Filipino Escabeche (Sweet and Sour Fish) Recipe

June 12, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

This old time Filipino recipe known as Escabeche (Sweet and Sour Fish) is highly rated as the most common dish which often available on any events or occasions. The dish is being so much loved by most Filipinos because of its unique blending taste of sweet and sour that even small children would appreciate and enjoy eating it. Aside to its delicious taste, Escabeche is also a very healthy dish since their ingredients have different kinds of vitamins and nutrients which are very good to the body.
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Balut (fertilized duck egg) considers a much-loved Filipino Delicacy

March 24, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Balut is a Mallard duck egg locally known as ‘Pateros itik’ with a nearly-developed inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. They are common, everyday food in some countries in Southeast Asia particularly in the Philippines. Many people believed to be an aphrodisiac and considered a high-protein, hearty snack, balut are mostly sold by street vendors in the regions where they are available. It is also come together with “chicharon”, fried thin slices of pork fat or skin upon selling in the streets.
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Filipino Bicol Express Recipe

November 25, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Bicol Express or also known as Sinilihan is a famous dish which originated in the Bicol Region of the Philippines. It is pork strips and siling haba (finger chilies) cooked in coconut milk. Bicol Express is very rich and very spicy. Some versions include ginger, some include dilaw (turmeric), some include bagoong or shrimp paste. The dish is said to have evolved from gulay na may lada, another Bicolano dish which is nowadays also presented as one of the many variants of Bicol Express.
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Filipino Chop Suey Recipe

November 23, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Chop Suey is originally an American-Chinese dish which consists of meats (often chicken, beef, shrimp or pork), cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce but Filipinos also have their own version of this dish. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the addition of deep-fried noodles.
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Filipino Sinigang na Baboy (Sour Soup Pork) Recipe

November 17, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Sinigang is a Filipino dish famous for the variety of ingredients one can use as well as for its taste. Though considered a soup, it is not eaten as is, but rather combined as a viand with rice. Sinigang is typically sour and is most often likened to Thailand’s tom yam. Sinigang’s characteristic taste is attributed to the ingredient that gives its sour taste, not to the meat’s flavor.
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Filipinos Loves to Eat Kare-kare

November 11, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Recipes · Comment 

Kare-kare is a Filipino stew with a rich nutty sauce and served with a variety of vegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe. Meat variants may include goat meat or chicken. It is often eaten with bagoong (shrimp paste), sometimes spiced with chili, and sprinkled with calamansi juice. Traditionally, any Filipino fiesta particularly in the Tagalog region is not complete without kare-kare. In some Filipino-American versions of the dish, oxtail is exclusively used as the meat.
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