Chicken Adobo

Ingredients:
  • 1 whole chicken, cut up into pieces
  • 2 tbsp cooking oil
  • 1 tsp minced garlic
  • 1 whole chopped onion
  • 1 whole chopped tomato
  • 2/3 cup of soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup of vinegar
  • 5 bay leaves
  • Optional: Mang Tomas All-Purpose Sauce and Oyster Sauce

Procedure:
  • Heat up some cooking oil in a pan.
  • Saute the garlic, onion, and tomato.
  • Mix in the chicken.
  • Let it simmer for around 15 minutes.
  • Put some soy sauce and let it simmer again for roughly around 15 minutes. Mix it from time to time.
  • Add some vinegar. Cover it and don’t stir. Let it boil.
  • Once boiling, put some bay leaves and mix it.
  • Simmer it until you reach desired consistency of the sauce. We like the sauce thick so I would simmer it for roughly 20 more minutes on low to medium heat.
  • Serve with rice

Lechon Manok

Ingredients:
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground pepper
  • 1 tsp parsley
  • 1 tsp rosemary
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 1/4 cup fish sauce
  • 20 cloves minced garlic
  • lemon grass
  • 1 lemon, cut in half
  • 1 whole head garlic

Procedure:
  • Mix all the dry seasoning and spread it all over the chicken.
  • Mix in the fish sauce, followed by the minced garlic.
  • Put half of the lemon inside the chicken, followed by the whole garlic, and also the lemon grass.
  • Squeeze half of the lemon over the chicken and then put it inside the chicken.
  • Marinate the chicken for at least 1 hour.
  • Preheat your oven or broiler at 350F.
  • Bake the chicken for 1-1/2 to 2 hours at 350F. If the inside of the chicken is no longer pink, then its done.

Sinigang Na Baboy

Ingredients:
  • 1 kilo pork spare ribs
  • 2 packs Tamarind Soup Base
  • 1 big tomato
  • 1 big red onion
  • 2 pcs gabi (taro)
  • 3 pcs chili peppers
  • Salt or fish sauce to taste
  • Vegetable of your choice:
  • Eggplant
  • Radish
  • String beans
  • Kangkong (swamp cabbage)

Procedure:
  • Boil approximately 2 to 3 liters of water.
  • Put in the meat, tomato and onion. Let the meat cook.
  • When the meat is tender, you can mix in the gabi or taro. Let it cook.
  • When the taro is cooked (it should have a consistency of a cooked potato), you can take it off the stock and mash it and put it back. It will help thicken the soup.
  • Put the Tamarind Soup Base as a substitute for the real tamarind. Let it boil once again.
  • When its boiling, you can add the vegetable,except for the kangkong (swamp cabbage) if you have some.
  • When the vegetable is almost cooked, you can add in the chili peppers.
  • When the chili peppers are cooked, turn your heat off, and add your kangkong (swamp cabbage), and cover it.
  • Serve hot.

Pinoy Style Spaghetti with Carbonara Sauce

Ingredients:
  • 36 oz bacon
  • 10 oz Velveeta cheese
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 4 cans of cream of mushroom
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 pint heavy whipping cream
  • Ground pepper to taste
  • 2 tbsp minced garlic
  • 3 lbs uncooked spaghetti
  • 1/4 cup fish sauce
  • Optional: Chopped parsley.

Procedure for the sauce:
  • Chopped the bacon into small pieces. Then fry until its crispy. Ste aside. Drain the grease, but leave about 2 tbsp for sauteing.
  • Saute garlic and onion. Mix in the bacon.
  • Put the fish sauce and ground pepper.
  • Mix in the cream of mushroom, and a cup of water. Let it simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
  • Put the heavy whipping cream.
  • Put the Velveeta cheese and let it melt. When the cheese has melted, its done.

Procedure for the spaghetti:
  • Boil some water.
  • When its boiling, put the spaghetti and stir it constantly.
  • When its nice and soft, its done.
  • Drain the water and coat the spaghetti with butter.

Ensaladang Mangga

Ingredients:
  • 1 whole green mango, chopped into small pieces
  • 1 small onion, finely chopped
  • 1 small tomato, chopped
  • 1 to 2 tbsp of shrimp paste or bagoong

Procedure:
  • Mix all the ingredients in one container.
  • Serve as a side dish.

Ginisang Gulay

Ingredients:
  • 3 tbsp cooking oil
  • 1 tbsp minced garilc
  • 1 medium sized chopped onion
  • 1 large sized chopped tomato
  • 3/4 cup skinless shrimp
  • 1 cup chopped boneless pork
  • pork bullion cube (chicken and beef or combination is okay)
  • Fish sauce to taste or salt
  • 3 tbsp oyster sauce
  • Chopped cabbage
  • Broccoli
  • Green beans

Procedure:
  • Heat some cooking oil in a pan.
  • Saute the garlic, followed by onion.
  • Saute the tomato.
  • Add the pork together with the bullion cubes. Let it cook.
  • Add the shrimp.
  • Season it with fish sauce and oyster sauce.
  • When the shrimp is cooked, add the vegetables. Mix and let simmer for not more than 3 minutes. Do not cover.
  • Serve with steamed rice and enjoy.!!

Beef Afritada

Ingredients:
  • 1 lb beef cut into chunks
  • 3 tbsp cooking oil
  • 5 cloves minced garlic
  • 1/2 cup chopped onion
  • 3/4 cup chopped tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup red and green bell peppers, cut into strips
  • 1 pc beef broth cube
  • 1 oz tomato sauce
  • 1 oz water
  • 1 cup chopped carrots
  • 1-1/2 cup chopped potatoes
  • 3 pcs bay leaves
  • Fish sauce or soy sauce to taste
  • Ground black pepper to taste

Procedure:
  • Cook the beef chunks in water until it is tender.
  • Set the beef chunks aside and dump the water.
  • On the same saucepan, heat some cooking oil.
  • Sauté the garlic, followed by the onion and tomatoes.
  • Add the red and green bell peppers.
  • Add the beef broth cube.
  • Add the cooked beef chunks. Mix well.
  • Put the tomato sauce followed by the water. Mix well.
  • Add the carrots and potatoes, then the bay leaves.
  • Season with fish sauce or soy sauce and ground black pepper.
  • Simmer until the potatoes are tender.
  • Serve with steamed rice.