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Filipino Cuisine

Since the Philippines, Throughout its history has been touched by foreign influences such as Malayan, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and American, you will find Filipino dishes diverse in the taste yet assimilated and distinctly native.Philippine Cuisine has a unique personality that is intriguing and surprising but pleasant to the plate.

While learning and experimenting with Filipino Cuisine, I found that the main dishes fall into four major categories. Firsts, there are sauteed recipes (guisado), where garlic and onions are the basic ingredients sauteed in a little vegetable oil. There are some certain dishes that include tomatoes as a necessary ingredient. To these are added any kind of meat, seafood , vegetable and seasonings to obtain healthy dishes. Second, the stewed recipies that include adobo that calls for vinegar,garlic and seasonings as the base for Native Filipino stews. Meat stews that are gently simmered in tomato sauce also fall into these categories. Third, there are the pan-fried recipes (pinirito) that the use special marinades or just salt and pepper as seasonings in any type of meat, poultry or seafood. The cooking is done in a skillet with little or just enough vegetable oil. Fourth, the soup or boiled recipes (nilaga), wich are served as main dishes include generous amounts of meat, poultry or sea food simmered gently in water with onions and vegetables. These are usually flavored with fish sauce and seasonings. A variation is the addition of garlic and ginger to obtain a special taste. This category also includes the pleasantly tart or sour soups (sinigang), flavored with lemon juice or tamarind.

Happy Cooking!

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Chicken Curry recipe

Estimated cooking time: 40 minutes






Chicken Curry Ingredients:


1 Kilo chicken cut to pieces
2 to 3 pieces of potatoes, quartered
2 to 3 pieces of carrots, cut to pieces
1 big red bell pepper cut into 1"x1" squares
1 big green bell pepper cut into 1"x1" squares
2 mid-sized onions, chopped
1 bulb of garlic, minced
1 thumb-sized ginger, pounded then sliced
2 cups coconut milk
2 to 3 tablespoons of curry powder
1 teaspoon chili powder or minced chili (optional)
4 tablespoons cooking oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Chicken Curry Cooking Instructions:

In frying pan or wok, fry the cut chicken until light brown. Next, fry potatoes and carrots, set aside.

In a sauce pan, sauté garlic, onions and ginger in cooking oil for 2 minutes.

Add the chicken, coconut milk, curry powder and chili powder. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Add potatoes, carrots and continue to simmer for another 5 minutes or until tender.

Add red and green bell pepper, salt (about 1 tablespoon) and pepper to taste.

Serve hot with steamed rice.

Cooking Notes:

Coconut milk may be canned from the grocery store. When using fresh coconut, milk grated coconut meat with 1/2 cup of water, then set aside. Again, milk the grated coconut milk for the second time using 1 1/2 cups of water. While cooking, use the 2nd milking first, then add the 1st coconut milk near then end of cooking -just after putting the potatoes and carrots.

Use fish sauce (patis) instead salt when available.

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